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Cvetomir M. Denchev
 Bulgarian Mycological Society was founded on the 19th of
November 1998. It is the first Bulgarian mycological NGO.
Institute of Botany of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences houses
the new society. The purpose of the Bulgarian Mycological
Society (BMS) is to promote the development of mycology in
Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula, especially the investigations
and conservation of the Bulgarian mycota.
The members of BMS are researchers or Readers of mycology
or phytopathology at the Institute of Botany and Institute
of Forestry of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia), Faculty
of Biology of Sofia University, and Agricultural University
(Plovdiv). They have standing interest in various fields of
modern mycology and forest phytopathology. They carry out
jointly or independently intensive research on taxonomy, ecology,
physiology and economic importance of the fungi, threatened
fungi, biodiversity inventorying, computerization and indexing
of bibliographic contributions to the Bulgarian mycota, environmental
and industrial mycology, and on applied problems involving
fungi such as crop protection, epidemiology caused by forest
pathogens, rational utilization of fungi as natural resource,
fungal acumulation of heavy metals, bioindication, monitoring
of impact areas and pathological processes in the forest ecosystems,
etc.
The main projects of BMS are:
- “Compendium of Bulgarian fungi, 1895–2003”.
The work is towards to a complete list of the Bulgarian
fungi and their distribution, as well as to host/fungus
checklist, checklist of the substrata, and list of bibliography
of the contributions to the Bulgarian mycota.
- “Red list of the Bulgarian threatened fungi”
- “Mycological investigation of the Vitosha Natural
Park”
- “Mycological investigation of the Pirin National
Park” in connection with preparing of the Protected
Area Management Plan of the Pirin National Park.
Board of BMS: Assoc. Prof. Cvetomir M. Denchev, PhD (President,
Institute of Botany, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; e-mail:
denchev@bio.bas.bg), Evtimia Dimitrova, PhD (Secretary, Institute
of Botany, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; e-mail: efi@bio.bas.bg), Boris Assyov,
MSc (Treasurer, Institute of
Botany, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; e-mail: assyov@bio.bas.bg),
Assoc. Prof. Georgi Stoichev, PhD (Department of Botany, Agricultural
University, Plovdiv), Assoc. Prof. Peter Petkov, PhD (Institute
of Forestry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).
Address for correspondence:
Bulgarian Mycological Society
Institute of Botany
23, Acad. G. Bonchev St.
1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
E-mail: bms@bio.bas.bg
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