Plant Biology Harper & Brothers Publishers Kern, Frank D., Revised Taxonomic Account of the Genus Gymnosporangium. (revised edition 1973) Pennsylvania State University Press. Kern, F. D. and H. H. Whetzel. (1926) Some New and Interesting Porto Rican Rusts. Mycologia 18 39-47 Kern, F. D. (1928) Fungi of Santo Domingo II. Uredinales. Mycologia. 20 60–82. Awards and recognition He was awarded D Sc by University of Puerto Rico in 1926. In 1945 he was president of the Mycological Society of America and vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Three fungal genera, Kernia which is a genus of fungi in the family Microascaceae, then Kernella Thirum. within the Pucciniaceae family and Kerniomyces Toro. within the Schizothyriaceae, are named after him. Legacy In 1971 the new graduate center at Penn State University was named the Kern Graduate Building. References 1883 births 1973 deaths American mycologists Pennsylvania State University faculty Columbia University alumni University of Iowa alumni Purdue University alumni Mycologists American phytopathologists