[1] She became one of the most widely recognized mycologists in the second half of the 20th century in Eastern Europe, with contributions to mycological research, fungal taxonomy and recording the mycoflora of Hungary.
Although this was a tedious method and often required the process to be started in the field, Babos prepared more than 20,000 Herpell-exsiccata, which forms a valuable part of the fungus collection of the Hungarian National History Museum.
[3] Shortly after joining the Mycology Department, she started participating in ongoing research activities, which mostly focused on recording and cataloguing the mushroom flora of Hungary and the renovation and organization of the Fungal Herbarium.
She made extensive comparisons with coastal, halophilic sand dunes and was always delighted by the high species overlap between these habitats despite great geography distances.
She worked with several major figures of mycology of the time, including Albert Pilát, Marcel Bon, and Johann Stangl.
It is based on the macrofungi collections of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, which has been re-established, catalogued and organized after World War II by Margit Babos and Gábor Bohus.
In addition, she published two volumes on the macrofungi of the Kiskunság and the Hortobágy National Parks [22][23] which give the foundation of the mycological knowledge on continental sandy areas.
[30] Babos published several books and identification guides and gave hundreds of lectures and seminars on fungal biology in Hungarian.