HISTORY OF TAXONOMIC MYCOLOGY IN BELARUS:
A BIBLIOGRAPHIC SURVEY

Oomycota

The first available datum on Oomycota in Belarus was Cystopus candidus reported in a paper by Błoński (1889).

Six species from the genera Bremia, Cystopus, and Peronospora were published by Kastory (1912) for Vitsebsk and Orsha vicinity. Schembel (1913) identified 1 Cystopus and 1 Peronospora species collected near Minsk. Single Peronospora species was published by Lebedeva (1925, Zweites...). Cystopus candidus was published by Nestertschuk (1927). Single Phytophthora species was reported by Kuprevich (1931, Fungi...). Tupenevitch (1932, Die parasitischen…) listed 19 species. Seven species were published by Tumiłowiczówna (1935) for Valkavysk vicinity.

A series of papers was devoted to oomycetes observed on fabaceous crops by workers of the Academy of Sciences. Pythium debarianum was reported and briefly described by Chekalinskaya (1958), Dorozhkin and Chekalinskaya (1965). The morphology of Phytophthora infestans was described by Dorozhkin et al. (1976: 29–35). Eleven Peronospora species were reported by Dorozhkin et al. (1978, Fabaceous…) on the Fabaceae. Two oomycete species were described in the book by Dorozhkin and Belskaya (1979). Morphological descriptions of 8 oomycete species were included in the book by Dorozhkin and Nitievskaya (1990). Belomesyatseva and Shabashova (2006: 341–344) listed 18 species from the genera Albugo, Phytophthora, Peronospora, Plasmopara, and Pseudoperonospora, stored in MSK herbarium. Several works were devoted to oomycetes parasitizing ornamental and flower plants. Two species were decribed by Gorlenko (1961). In an article by Gorlenko (1966) 5 species of the Peronosporales recorded in Central Botanical Garden were listed, with morphological description of 1 Peronospora species. Seven species of the Peronosporales were reported by Gorlenko and Pan'ko (1967). In the pocket handbook on flower and ornamental cultures diseases by Gorlenko (1969) there are short descriptions of 25 species, but without data on geography. Mitskevich (1976) identified Aphanomyces cochlioides and Pythium debarianum from rotten beetroots. Single Pythium species was mentioned in a book by Gorlenko et al. (1988). Four species of the Peronosporaceae and one Pythium were described and 2 of them illustrated by Gorlenko et al. (1990).

Illustration of Peronospora tabacina from a paper by Gorlenko (1966)

A series of papers on oomycetes was published by workers of Belarusian State University, Department of Botany. Shukanov and Borisenok (1977) reported 31 species of the Peronosporales, 12 of which were new for Belarus and accompanied by morphological descriptions. Shukanov (1984) reported 25 species of the genus Peronospora and 2 of Pseudoperonospora identified for the first time for Belarus. Besides, he wrote that altogether 56 species of the Peronosporales were recorded by collaborators of Botany Department, and the culmulative Belarusian list constituted 65 species. Girilovich et al. (1993) reported 55 species of the Peronosporales identified for the first time for Belarus, collected in 1983–1992. Girilovich and Shukanov (1997) reported 54 new for Belarus species of the Peronosporales. Four species of the Peronosporales were mentioned in a paper by Bibikov et al. (2001). A paper devoted to the fungi found in Loshytsa Park and Garden in Minsk (Girilovich et al., 2002) included 35 species of the Peronosporales. In 1999 the workers of Department of Botany collected the Peronosporales in Belavezhskaya Pushcha National Park, and the list of 28 species was published in 2003 (Girilovich et al., 2003).