Yolande Dalpé

Yolande Dalpé
Born1948 (age 77–78)
Waterloo, QC, Canada
Alma materUniversité Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
Known forMycology
AwardsLawson Medal
Scientific career
WorkplacesAgriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Yolande Dalpé is a former Research Scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. She became the first mycologist in Ottawa to study the taxonomy of mycorrhizal fungi.[1] Her research focuses on developing new information on taxonomy, phylogeny, distribution and biology of fungi, including systematic research related to biosecurity/alien invasive species as well as species involved in the development of bioproducts.[2] She was awarded the Lawson Medal by the Canadian Botanical Association for her "cumulative, lifetime contributions to Canadian botany, for the research she has performed in mycology, and has been recognized nationally and internationally."[3] Over her career, she published extensively and contributed to training scientists[4] in fungal identification[5] and taxonomy, earning national and international recognition.

Biography

Yolande Dalpé was born in Waterloo, Quebec in 1948.[6] In 1989 she received her Doctorate of Science (D.Sc.) in the Physiology of Fungi from Université Paul-Sabatier in Toulouse, France.[6] After completing her D.Sc. Dalpé was hired as a research scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)[6] in 1981.[1][7]

Career

Yolande Dalpé last worked as the program leader of the mycology section at the Ottawa Research and Development Centre in Ottawa, Ontario.

Her projects included:

Yolande Dalpé is an associate editor of the journal Botany published by the National Research Council of Canada.[6] She is also an adjunct professor associated with the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science, a network that fosters and promotes a research and training program in biodiversity science.[2] She has trained numerous scientists and graduate students in the identification and taxonomy of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and has published over 130 scientific papers.[6][10][11]

Yolande Dalpé is a founding member of the International Mycorrhiza Society (IMS), a scientific society involved in the advancement of education, research and development in the area of mycorrhizal symbiosis between plants and specialized soil fungi.[12] She is a member of IMS' Board of Directors and is also the editor of Mycorrhiza, the official scientific journal of the society.[12]

Yolande Dalpé is an administrator of an amateur mycologist association for the Outaouais, Quebec region called Mycologues Amateurs de l'Outaouais (MAO).[13] MAO is dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge in mycology, picking wild mushrooms, their identification and their consumption.[2] Dalpé is also the editor of MAO's newsletter.[2]

She is the "person in charge" of the Glomeromycota In vitro Collection Canada (GINCO-CAN) an organization that "shares the biological material of its collection and related informations as well as its experience and know-how in the field of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi research to the benefit of its partners and clients in the scientific and industrial sectors."[14]

Honours and awards

In 2013 Dalpé received the Lawson Medal by the Canadian Botanical Association for her "cumulative, lifetime contributions to Canadian botany, for the research she has performed in mycology, and has been recognized nationally and internationally."[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Estey, Ralph (1994). "A History of Mycology in Canada". Canadian Journal of Botany. 72 (6): 751–766. Bibcode:1994CaJB...72..751E. doi:10.1139/b94-095.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Dalpé, Yolande, D.Sc. - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)". Archived from the original on 2016-09-29. Retrieved 2016-09-26.
  3. 1 2 "Past Recipients of the Lawson Medal". cba-abc.ca. 2024. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
  4. ↑ "Effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on tolerance and growth of selected spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) lines under salinity stress". Journal of Food, Agriculture & Environment. 15 (3&4): 40–47.
  5. ↑ Stefani, Franck; Laterrière, Mario; Abdellatif, Lobna; Banchini, Claudia; Mader Stevens, Greta; Séguin, Sylvie; Dadej, Kasia; Koziol, Lisa; Findlay, Wendy; Dalpé, Yolande (November 2025). "The pitfalls of r DNA ‐based AMF identification: a comparative analysis of r DNA and protein‐coding genes". New Phytologist. 248 (3): 1501–1515. doi:10.1111/nph.70557. PMC 12489285.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Khasa, Damase, Yves Piché and Andrew P. Coughlan (Eds.) 2009. Advances in Mycorrhizal Science and Technology. National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ont., p. iii
  7. ↑ Cody, William J.; Cody, William J.; Sarazin, Michael J.; Savile, D. B. O.; Centre (Canada), Biosystematics Research; Canada (1986). Systematics in Agriculture Canada at Ottawa, 1886-1986. Vol. 28. Ottawa: Biosystematics Research Centre, Agriculture Canada. ISBN 978-0-662-54239-1.
  8. ↑ Bouamri, R; Dalpe, Y; Serrhini, M (2014). "Effect of seasonal variation on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated with date palm". Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture. 26 (11): 977. doi:10.9755/ejfa.v26i11.18985.
  9. ↑ Bencherif, Karima; Boutekrabt, Ammar; Fontaine, Joël; Laruelle, Fréderic; Dalpè, Yolande; Lounès-Hadj Sahraoui, Anissa (November 2015). "Impact of soil salinity on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi biodiversity and microflora biomass associated with Tamarix articulata Vahll rhizosphere in arid and semi-arid Algerian areas". Science of The Total Environment. 533: 488–494. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.07.007.
  10. ↑ Yi, Daishu; Schwinghamer, Timothy; Dalpé, Yolande; Singh, Jaswinder; Khanizadeh, Shahrokh (1 March 2017). "The Response of Spring Wheat Cultivars to Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Colonization under Salinity Stresses". Sustainable Agriculture Research. 6 (2): 58. doi:10.5539/sar.v6n2p58.
  11. ↑ Marleau, Julie; Dalpé, Yolande; St-Arnaud, Marc; Hijri, Mohamed (24 February 2011). "Spore development and nuclear inheritance in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11 (1): 51. Bibcode:2011BMCEE..11...51M. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-51. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 3060866. PMID 21349193.
  12. 1 2 "About Us – International Mycorrhiza Society". Mycorrhizas.org. 2014-06-20. Retrieved 2017-01-14.
  13. ↑ "Club des MAO". Mao-qc.ca. 2015-04-11. Archived from the original on 2017-10-17. Retrieved 2017-01-14.
  14. ↑ "Glomeromycota in vitro collection (GINCO-BEL)". Mycorrhiza.be. Retrieved 2017-01-14.
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