A review of scientific, educational and public activity of Prof. S.F. Morochkovskyi, a well-known scientist in Ukraine and abroad, a former head of Mycology Department of the M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1939–1962), a Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology, is provided. He studied fungi causing storage rot of sugarbeet roots, proposed methods of protecting stored sugarbeets, investigated development and species diversity of the genera Penicillium, Fusarium and Aspergillus and eventually led the school of applied mycology and phytopathology. In the 1930s, S.F. Morochkovskyi was one of the experts who conducted intensive studies and demonstrated the fungal agent of stachybotryotoxicosis, a previously unknown disease of horses and farm workers. Prof. Morochkovskyi is a founder and one of the authors of the Handbook of Fungi of Ukraine in 5 volumes, a remarkable publication promoting mycology in Ukraine. He paid special attention to fungal diversity studies in Ukraine, to fungal diseases in agricultural crops and forest plantations, to critical studies of some groups of fungi. A devoted scientist who focused on realizing his dream through daily hard work, he made a significant contribution to the development of mycology in Ukraine and trained his followers who continue to develop research in the field of mycology.

Keywords: Penicillium, Fusarium, Aspergillus, phytopathogenic fungi, storage rot of sugarbeet root, stachybotryotoxicosis, mycobiota, Ukraine

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