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Bensaude is honored with a plaque at UW-Madison's Department of Plant Pathology Library for her contributions to the field of mycology and plant pathology (Mota, 2008).
Paul Ahlquist is an American virologist who is Professor of Oncology, Molecular Virology, and Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.He is the Associate Director of Basic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center and the Director of the John and Jeanne Rowe Center for Research in Virology at the Morgridge Institute for Research.
Charlotte Elliott (1883-1974) was a pioneering American plant physiologist specializing in bacterial organisms that cause disease in crops who was the author of a much-used reference work, the Manual of Bacterial Plant Pathogens. [1] [2] She was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in botany from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. [1] [2]
Glenn Simpson Pound (March 7, 1914 – July 6, 2010) [1] was an American educator and acting chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1977.. Born in Hector, Arkansas, Pound worked as a sharecropper in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, where he worked his way up to running a 600-acre (240 ha) farm producing vegetables and cotton. [2]
Cornell University, University of Wisconsin-Madison Molly Jahn is an American plant geneticist and breeder and Professor of Agronomy at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She was Under Secretary of Research, Education and Economics in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (2009 - 2010).
Handelsman secured a faculty position in plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1985. She remained at Wisconsin until 2009, and then took a position at the Yale University Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology in 2010.
Drechsler attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he started off studying engineering but switched to botany after attending a mycology lecture.He earned his bachelor's degree in 1913, and went on to complete a Master of Science in plant pathology in 1914, producing a thesis on bacterial black rot of crucifers.
Ruth Florence Allen (1879–1963) was an American botanist and plant pathologist and the first woman to earn her Ph.D. in botany from the University of Wisconsin. Her doctorate research focused on the reproduction and cell biology of ferns, particularly the phenomenon of apogamy (formation of an embryo without fertilization) (Allen, 1914). [1]