Virtual Highway of Biological Historical Markers
We begin our trip in New York City at the site of the Bronx Zoo, called the New York Zoological Garden in 1904.

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• Chestnut Blight Fungus (M. Blackwell)
• Penicillin: The beginning, Praed Street near the Underground, London, England (A. Sharma)
• Where was Entomophaga maimaiga for 85 years (R. M. Camors)
• Oak wilt threatens southern live oak trees (D. R. Bagaley)
• Another disease of oaks: Sudden oak death (C. K. Erbil)
• The Irish Potato Blight (S. N. George)
• Ötzi, the Iceman (J. M. Smith)
• A. B. Langlois, Botanist-Priest (T. L. LeBlanc)
• The Magic Mushrooms of Oaxaca (A. Reed)
• Death by Ignorance: Salem and the Witches (R. Mancini)
• Will you still be able to afford chocolate after the plant pahtogens get through historical marker (V. C. Berrigan)
• Dogwood Anthracnose: Yet Another Introduced Plant Pathogen (U. Nguyen)
• Potato Blight Spreads (K. E. Rutherford)
• Truffles (Y. Zarbalian)
  
• Humongous Fungus (M. Cart)
  
• Can sex cause French-fry extinction? (J. Triola)
• Scientific Fermentation (J. Lo)
• Michigan Morel Hunt (M. Popovich)
• Phycomycosis (B. Cranfield)
• Cryphonectria genetic research (E. T. Watson)
• Devil's Cigar --The Texas state fungus (D. Gomez)
• Cyttaria --traveling fungi (R. Holbert)
• Lambic Beer Fermentation (M. Covington)
• The Discovery of Cyclosporin A (L. Crane)
• Fusarium sporotrichioides and Alimentary Toxic Aleukia (J. Godwin)
• Pierre Marie Alexis Millardet and Bourdeaux Mixture (T.M. Jones)
  
• Plasmopara and the European Wine Industry (S. Parker)
• First Use of Antibiotics (B. Perkins)
• Bleu cheese (L. Botts)
• Stinkhorns: On Being an Overnight Celebrity (Ha Huynh)
• Amanita muscaria in Siberia & its relation to Santa Claus (D. Mart)
• Ant Farmers of Louisiana (D. Ingram)
• Birthplace of the California Wine Boom (S. Mizell)
• White Nose Syndrome of Bats (A. Stevens)

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Last modified 29 March 2008
Meredith Blackwell
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