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135: 439:) was described as “a culmination of more than 50 years of dedicated work and passion for smut fungi.” The nearly 1500 page monograph has been described as the "Holy Book of Smut Fungi", because it comprises the description of the 1700 known species with their synonyms, important literature, their host plants and over 3.500 illustrations of which 650 are the author's drawings of smutted plants. 25: 1337: 454:
Both before and after retirement, Vánky travelled widely, collecting and investigating smut fungi in about 55 countries all over the world. The collecting trips were very often combined with national or international workshops, conferences or congresses in the field of mycology, where he was lecturer
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Karunarathna, Samantha C.; Daranagama, Anupama; Wulandari, Nilam Fadmaulidha; Luangharn, Thatsanee; Jayawardena, M. M. Ruvishika S.; Herath, P. H. M. Anushika K.; Dissanayake, Asha Janadaree; Abeysinghe, Gayan Dakshitha; Senanayake, I. C.; Hongsanan, Sinang; Hyde, Kevin D. (15 March 2013). "Smut
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published two interviews and a laudation on the Székely-Hungarian scientist. In 2012 he was awarded the "Pázmány Dénes Award" of the 'Kálmán László Mycological Society', Transylvania (Romania). and in 2014 awarded with "Arany János medal" of the 'Hungarian Academy of Science'.
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Shivas, Roger; McTaggart, Alistair; Begerow, Dominik; Denchev, Cvetomir M.; Denchev, Teodor T.; Kemler, Martin; Kruse, Julia; Lutz, Matthias; Piątek, Marcin; Piepenbring, Meike; Thines, Marco (30 April 2022).
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Shivas, Roger; McTaggart, Alistair; Begerow, Dominik; Denchev, Cvetomir M.; Denchev, Teodor T.; Kemler, Martin; Kruse, Julia; Lutz, Matthias; Piątek, Marcin; Piepenbring, Meike; Thines, Marco (2022).
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was published in 2013. In this edition, 104 recognized genera of smut fungi are presented, described and illustrated, compared to the second edition, in which 77 genera are identified.
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on 15 June 1930. He attended the Bethlen János Reformed School and, after it closed in 1945, the United Grammar School in Odorhei until 1949. He then began his studies at the
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Berndt, R. (2002). "Uromyces vankyorum spec. nov. and Uromyces atriplicis, putative vicariant rust species of Patagonian and Australian semi-desert biomes".
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Honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2001, Pázmány Dénes Award 2012, Arany János medal of the Hungarian Academy of Science 2014
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Nannfeldt, J.A. (1977). "The species of Anthracoidea (Ustilaginales)on Carex subgen. Vignea with special regard to the Nordic species".
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with Swedish and Hungarian citizenship, who lived in Germany. He was considered to be the worldwide authority on the subject of
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or speaker. Between 1989 and 2009 his German wife, Christine, helped him in collecting and taking photos of smutted plants.
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at the Department of Phytopathology of the Agricultural Research Institute, Bucharest, Romania, where he began studying
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village. He continued to pursue and personally fund his research in the field of smut fungus taxonomy and obtained his
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By 2014 Vánky had published 232 scientific papers and 10 books on smut fungi. His monograph
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Carris, LM1; Castlebury, LA; Huang, G; Alderman, SC; Luo, J; Bao, X (December 2007).
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Vánky lectured in Hungary. He donated a complete set (no. 1-1350) of his Smut fungus
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in 1985 (under supervision of Prof. Jan Axel Nannfeldt). His doctoral thesis,
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Over 60 years Vánky amassed the largest smut fungus collection in the world,
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Savile, D.B.O. (1974). "Orphanomyces, a new genus of cypericolous smuts".
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Y.M. Li, R.G. Shivas, McTaggart & L. Cai (2017) were named for him.
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Li, Y.M.; Shivas, R.G.; McTaggart; Cai, L (2017). "Ten new species of
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Between 1953 and 1957 Vánky worked as a researcher with Professor
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Denchev, T.T.; Denchev; Kemler, M.; Begerow, D. (2020).
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From 1961 until 1964 he worked as a 8: 1403:Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1393:Academic staff of the University of Tübingen 563:in the Biological Sciences section in 2001. 511:(The World of Nature). The Romanian journal 1230:: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( 319:but completed his degree in biology at the 133: 122: 1274: 1095: 931:http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de 722: 680: 281:and has dominated the taxonomic study of 109:Learn how and when to remove this message 929:. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: 925:Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 707:"Obituary for Kálmán Vánky (1930–2021)" 665:"Obituary for Kálmán Vánky (1930–2021)" 607: 1223: 613: 611: 7: 1001:[Laudation of Kálmán Vánky] 464:Queensland Plant Pathology Herbarium 285:for at least the past four decades. 47:adding citations to reliable sources 1041:"Vankya, a new genus of smut fungi" 794:Fungi of the World". Book reviews. 552:Carris & Castlebury (2007) and 460:Herbarium Ustilaginales Vánky (HUV) 403:In 1986 Vánky obtained a one-year 14: 1398:20th-century Hungarian physicians 559:He became honorary member of the 1335: 832:Illustrated Genera of Smut Fungi 487:Hungarian Natural History Museum 444:Illustrated Genera of Smut Fungi 23: 1307:International Plant Names Index 945:"Egy világutazó székely füvész" 34:needs additional citations for 1378:University of Bucharest alumni 1373:Babeș-Bolyai University alumni 526:Two new genera of smut fungi, 493:Interviews, awards and honours 392:Symbolae Botanicae Upsalienses 1: 1388:University of Tübingen alumni 1363:People from Odorheiu Secuiesc 1267:10.1080/00275514.2017.1330026 1097:10.12664/mycobiota.2020.10.03 561:Hungarian Academy of Sciences 500:Egy világutazó székely füvész 1210:10.1016/j.mycres.2007.09.008 943:Horvath, Gabor (June 1996). 927:IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae 767:Sharma, N.D. (10 May 2012). 256:Author abbrev. 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Odorheiu Secuiesc
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Mycology
University of Tübingen
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University of Cluj
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University of Bucharest
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