A glance back at the thirty years'' Mycosystema and prospect
《菌物学报》三十年回眸与展望

The present paper deals with the following three points: 1. A brief history of starting publication of the mycological journal in China. The first issue of the Acta Mycologica Sinica in Chinese was published in 1982. The first issue of the Mycosystema in English was published in 1988, which as one of the 25 periodicals in mycology of the world was listed by the Dictionary of the Fungi (8th Edition). In this case, the Acta Mycologica Sinica was merged into the Mycosystema in 1997. And the volume ordinal numbers of the Acta Mycologica Sinica was continued to use for that of the merged Mycosystema. 2. The three storage and retrieval systems of bioinformatics (publications), culture collections and herbaria of pan-fungal specimens as prototype references of the pan-fungal taxonomy are the most important support system to biological resources. 3. The Mycosystema as one of the three storage and retrieval systems played the leading role in the academic exchange of the mycology at home and abroad. The author hopes to see the Mycosystema will play more important role in the academic exchange of the mycology.