Irene Mounce was a Canadian scientist who specialized in the mating systems of wood-destroying fungi, Hymenomycetes.
[2][3] During a visit to Robert Hartig in Germany, Faull saw the value of studying the mycelium of the wood-decay fungi in the laboratory and tutored Irene's research in this area.
[2] In her doctoral studies, Mounce showed the complex genetic makeup of Fomes pinicola, which became the basis of the classic paper on cultural characteristics of the Polyporaceae, published in 1929.
[2][3] After a mycological career spanning about 25 years and her resignation at age 50, Mounce died June 26, 1987, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
[3] In the summer of 1925, she made her first trip to the Queen Charlotte Islands to investigate the decays of Sitka spruce trees.