In
French Guiana on a 1986 expedition sponsored by the Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program, Rossman met the French botanist Christian P. Feuillet.[10] They married in
King County, Washington, on 4 September 1988. They have a daughter.[2]
In 1996 Rossman told the science journalist Carol Kaesuk Yoon that for some types of organisms, such as
microfungi, New York state's forests are almost as unexplored as the
tropical forests.[11] Rossman, with coauthor
David L. Hawksworth, suggested that about 1.4 million fungal species were undescribed as of 1997.[12]
In 2009 Rossman became the research leader of the Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory (SMML) in
Beltsville, Maryland. She has also been director and
curator of the
U.S. National Fungus Collections (BPI — USDA Bureau of Plant Industry), which are located at the SMML. The SMML and the U.S. National Fungus Collections are part of the USDA's Agricultural Research Service. She led research on Hypocreales (particularly Calonectria, Nectria and Ophionectria), Diaporthales and other
microfungi that cause
plant diseases. She made important collections, not only with her husband, but also with
Laurence Skog and Gary Joseph Samuels.[13] Together with David F. Farr, she manages a
database containing information about the
fungal specimens in the U.S. National Fungus Collections. They also maintain a database with data on fungi that have plants as
hosts. She has contributed extensively to the
Index Fungorum.[14]
Rossman, Amy Y. (1983). The phragmosporous species of Nectria and related genera: (Calonectria, Ophionectria, Paranectria, Scoleconectria, and Trichonectria). Mycological papers, no. 150. Kew, Surrey, England: Commonwealth Mycological Institute.
LCCN83170359; 164 pages, illustrated{{
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Rossman, Amy Y.; Palm, Mary E.; Spielman, Linda J. (1987). A literature guide for the identification of plant pathogenic fungi. Contributions from the U.S. National Fungus Collections, no. 1. St. Paul, Minnesota: American Phytopathological Society.
ISBN0890540802.
LCCN87070764; written in cooperation with David F. Farr; pbk, 252 pages{{
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Brako, Lois; Rossman, Amy Y.; Farr, David F. (1995). Scientific and common names of 7,000 vascular plants in the United States. St. Paul, Minnesota: APS Press.
ISBN089054171X.
LCCN94079381; iii+295 pages{{
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Hoagland, K. Elaine; Rossman, Amy Y., eds. (1997). Global genetic resources: access, ownership, and intellectual property rights (Invited papers presented at a symposium held May 19-22, 1996 at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland, sponsored by U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, and the Association of Systematics Collections). Beltsville symposia in agricultural research, no. 21.
LCCN97018495; xi+347 pages, illustrated{{
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link)[18]
Rossman, Amy Y.; Tulloss, Rodham E.; O'Dell, Thomas E.; Thorn, R. Greg, eds. (1998). Protocols for an all taxa biodiversity inventory of fungi in a Costa Rican conservation area. Boone, N.C.: Parkway Publishers.
ISBN1887905057.
LCCN97044635; with a foreword by Daniel H. Janzen & Winnie Hallwachs; xvii+195 pages, illustrated{{
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