Pier Antonio Micheli was an Italian botanist regarded as the father of modern mycology. In his 1729 Nova Plantarum Genera he was the first to show that fungi reproduce from spores rather than arising by spontaneous generation, demonstrating the point with melon slice experiments, and he described roughly nine hundred fungi and lichens among the nearly nineteen hundred plants the book covered. Micheli served as botanist to Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and directed the botanical gardens of Florence.
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He was the first to point out that fungi have reproductive bodies or spores.
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He discovered the spores of mushrooms, was a leading authority on cryptogams, and coined several important genera of microfungi including Aspergillus and Botrytis.
Member Of: University of Pisa, Biography
In 1706 he was appointed botanist to Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, director of the Florence gardens, and a professor at the University of Pisa.
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Infobox fields: Botany; Mycology
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Infobox fields: Botany; Mycology
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