N.P. Money’s scientific contributions

What is this page?


This page lists works of an author who doesn't have a ResearchGate profile or hasn't added the works to their profile yet. It is automatically generated from public (personal) data to further our legitimate goal of comprehensive and accurate scientific recordkeeping. If you are this author and want this page removed, please let us know.

Publications (1)


Triumph of the fungi: A rotten history
  • Article

January 2007

·

175 Reads

·

30 Citations

N.P. Money

This book is concerned with the most devastating fungal diseases in history. These are the plagues of trees and crop plants caused by invisible spores that have reshaped entire landscapes and decimated human populations. Everyone is aware of the Irish potato famine, but while many other fungal diseases are less familiar, they have had similarly disastrous consequences. The book focuses on the fascinating biology of the well- and lesser-known diseases, and tells the stories of the scientists involved in their study and of the people directly impacted by the loss of forest trees like the chestnut, and cash crops such as coffee and cacao. While a book about fungal epidemics is not tailor-made for an intoxicating and uplifting read, the story of the mycologists and plant pathologists engaged in combating these diseases is one of human optimism (often encouraged by desperate eccentricity). In a surprisingly brief time, human knowledge of the fungi that infect plants has evolved from Biblical superstition to the recognition of the true nature of plant disease, and more recently, to a sense of awe for the sophistication of these microbes. The crucial issue of human culpability in these fungal epidemics is addressed in the book's closing chapter.

Citations (1)


... Prevailing wind patterns and the fact that CLR was not recorded in Angola until 1966 might explain this late arrival. Four years later CLR was discovered in Brazil by a pathologist who, perhaps coincidentally, had just been to Angola on a coffee study tour (Money, 2006 people, increased the eventual spread of CLR to many new places (McCook, 2006). The wider impacts of the disease will be discussed later, but a notable consequence of the destruction of the end of major coffee production in Ceylon was the rise of another valuable commodity and new wealth. ...

Reference:

Review article: The coffee leaf rust pandemic: An ever‐present danger to coffee production
Triumph of the fungi: A rotten history
  • Citing Article
  • January 2007