Fungi of Pakistan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780692245699)

Dr. Sultan Ahmad was born on 6th June 1910 at Ladhar, Sheikhupura, Punjab. He obtained his M.Sc degree in 1932 from the University of the Punjab, Lahore where he worked with Prof. S.R. Kashyap on Aithisoniel/a himalyensis Kash. He also obtained the B.Ed. degree from the Punjab University, Lahore in 1934 and served as a teacher in a High School in Gujrat and then as a Lecturer in Biology at Rohtak. After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, he returned to Labore and joined the Government College, Lahore. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1950 for his work on Gasteromycetes of West Pakistan which he submitted under the supervision of Professor Dr. Ahmad Ali Qureshi and later D.Sc in 1957 from the University of the Punjab. Dr. Sultan Ahmad retired as Professor and Head of the Department of Botany, Government College Lahore in 1970. The University of the Punjab appointed him as Professor Emeritus in 1972 and Dr. Sultan Ahmad continued to involve him- self in research work on the fungi of Pakistan. Dr. Sultan Ahmad has been an eminent contributor to the study of fungi of Pakistan where descriptions of over 2500 species of fungi have been recorded by him in his monumental works on Gastromycetes of Pakistan (1952), Fungi of West Pakistan (1956, 1969), Basidomycetes of Pakistan (1972), Uredinales of West Pakistan (1956), Ustilaginales of West Pakistan (1956), Pezizales of West Pakistan (1955), Ascomycetes of Pakistan (1978), besides a series of research papers on fungi which he published with B.B. Mundkur, E. Muller, J. Boidin, L.W. Wehmeyer etc., in Lloydia, Farlowia, Sydowia, Biologia and other scientific journals of international repute. He is botanically remembered by names of different taxa of fungi and mosses viz., Gimmia ahmadiana Noguchi, Amphididmyella ahmadiaii Millier, Xylosphaeria ahmadii Petr., Dictyoporthe ahmadii Petr., Humaria ahmadii Cash., Leptostroma ahmadii Petr., CercQSpora ahmadii Petr., Mycothyridium ahmadii (Boidin) Boidin, Helminthosporium ahmadii M.B. Ellis Coniothyrium sultanii Abbas, Phyllosticta sultanii Abbas and Phyllosticta Ahmadii Abbas which have been named after Dr. Sultan Ahmad. His vast collection of fungal specimens were placed in the Mycological Herbarium of the Department of Botany, University of the Punjab, Lahore, and also duplicates in Herb. I.M.I, Kew, Surrey, England and also in the Mycological Herbarium of USDA, Beltsville, MD, USA.