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Although fungal spores were first observed by Giambattista della Porta in 1588, the seminal work in the development of mycology is considered to be the publication of Pier Antonio Micheli's 1729 work Nova plantarum
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In 1729 Antonio Micheli first published descriptions of fungi
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Sir Alexander freming 1928 penicilin
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Later, Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878) further elaborated the classification of fungi