Margaret Church

Margaret Brooks Church (1889–1976) was an American mycologist who specialized in Aspergillus and other fungi involved in food fermentation.[1] She co-authored the first manual on Aspergillus with Charles Thom and worked with Thom on his treatise on Penicillium.[2] She was the first westerner to study the ang-khak fermentation of rice using Monascus purpureus (see: Church, 1920), and studied other Asian soy fermentations involving the fungus known as Aspergillus oryzae. This research culminated in her writing a USDA bulletin entitled Soy and Related Fermentations in 1923. In 1928 she took on a role as the Head of Biology at Urbana University, Urbana, Ohio, prior to her retirement in 1939.

Selected works
  • Church, MB (1920). "Laboratory experiments on the manufacture of Chinese Ang-khakin the United States" (PDF). J. Indust. Eng. Chem. 12: 45–46. doi:10.1021/ie50121a013.
  • Church, MB (1923). "Soy and related fermentations". U.S.D.A. Dept. Bull. 1152: 1–26.
  • Thom, C; Church, MB (1921). "Aspergillus flavus, A. oryzae and associated species". Am. J. Bot. 8: 103–126. doi:10.2307/2435149.
  • Thom C & Church MB. (1926) The Aspergilli. Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 272 pp.
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References
  1. Hesseltine CW (1990). "Margaret B. Church 1889–1976". Mycologia. 82 (1): 144–147. JSTOR 3759977.
  2. Raper KB. (1957). "Charles Thom 1872–1956". Mycologia. 49 (1): 134–50. JSTOR 3755740.
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