Margaret Church

Margaret Brooks Church (1889–1976) was an American mycologist who specialized in Aspergillus and other fungi involved in food fermentation.[1] She co-authored the first manual on Aspergillus with Charles Thom and worked with Thom on his treatise on Penicillium.[2] She was the first westerner to study the ang-khak fermentation of rice using Monascus purpureus (see: Church, 1920), and studied other Asian soy fermentations involving the fungus known as Aspergillus oryzae. This research culminated in her writing a USDA bulletin entitled Soy and Related Fermentations in 1923. In 1928 she took on a role as the Head of Biology at Urbana University, Urbana, Ohio, prior to her retirement in 1939.

Selected works

References

  1. Hesseltine CW (1990). "Margaret B. Church 1889–1976.". Mycologia 82 (1): 144–147. JSTOR 3759977.
  2. Raper KB. (1957). "Charles Thom 1872–1956". Mycologia 49 (1): 134–50. JSTOR 3755740.
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