Early and Recent Pioneers in Nematology

Contents: M.W. Allen I. Andrássy R.C. Baines A.F. Bird E.J. Cairns B.G. Chitwood J.R. Christie N.A. Cobb H. Darling E.C. Dougherty L.A.P. De Coninck A. De Grisse V.H. Dropkin C.L. Duddington W.A. Feder J. Feldmesser A.M. Golden W. Hart J. Heyns H. Hirschmann Q.L. Holdeman F.G.W. Jones B.R. Kerry E.L. Krall B. Lear M.B. Linford B.F. Lownsbery C.W. McBeth A.R. Maggenti W.F. Mai Y. Mamiya G.C. Martin N.A. Minton R.H. Mulvey A.G. Newhall W.L. Nicholas C.O. Nielsen D.C. Norton M. Oostenbrink A.J. Overman V.G. Perry B.G. Peters D.J. Raski H. Reynolds R.T. Robbins J.N. Sasser J.W. Seinhorst S.A. Sher M.R. Siddiqi G. Steiner A.C. Tarjan A.L. Taylor W. Thames I.J. Thomason G. Thorne R.W. Timm S.D. Van Gundy D.R. Viglierchio H.R. Wallace J.M. Webster G.W. Yeates B.M. Zuckerman References Return to General Nematology Menu	Early and Recent Pioneers in Nematology
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	Joseph N. Sasser, Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. Differential host range test for separating species of Meloidogyne. Conceived and developed the International Meloidogyne Project, 1976. Return to Table of Contents	Joseph Neal Sasser Knoxville, TN, 1957 Deceased August 17, 2005 J.N. Sasser Obituary
	Gerald R. Thorne Madison, WS, 1956	Gerald R. Thorne, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Nematode systematics and taxonomy. Wrote "Principles of Nematology". Return to Table of Contents
	Gotthold Steiner joined the staff of N.A. Cobb at the Division of Nematology, U.S. Department of Agriculture, in 1922. He became leader of the Division when Cobb died in 1932. Return to Table of Contents	Gotthold Steiner Beltsville, MD, 1956
	Born: Cambridge, Massachusetts 20 December 1920 BS 1947 (Rutgers University) MS 1949 (University of Maryland) PhD 1951 (University of Maryland) 1950-1951 Asst. Nematologist, USDA 1951-1955 Asst. Professor, University of Rhode Island 1955-1957 Assoc. Professor, University of Florida 1957-1989 Professor, University of Florida 1989-2009 Professor Emeritus, University of Florida Return to Table of Contents	Armen C. Tarjan Citrus Experiment Station Lake Alfred, FL. 1956 (left), 1998 (right) Deceased January 25, 2009 A.C. Tarjan Obituary
	Samuel A. (Skip) Sher Riverside, CA, 1954	Samuel A. (Skip) Sher, Department of Nematology, UC Rivesride. Morphologist, taxonomist, systematist. Some work with nematodes of ornamental crops. Trained with M.W. Allen in the Department of Nematology, UC Davis. Return to Table of Contents
	A.L. Taylor, Section of Nematology, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD. Extensive work on chemical control of plant-parasitic nematodes. Return to Table of Contents	A.L. Taylor Beltsville, MD, 1956
	Ivan J. Thomason 1925-2008 Nematologist, UC Riverside. S.D. Van Gundy and I. J. Thomason, 1961	Ivan J. Thomason Tracy, CA, 1954 Host-plant resistance and chemical control of nematode parasites of beans, and of the sugarbeet-cyst nematode, Heterodera schachtii. Deceased January 26, 2008 Obituary - Ivan J. Thomason Return to Table of Contents
	W. Thames Gainesville, FL, 1955	Return to Table of Contents
	J.W. Seinhorst Knoxville, TN, 1957	J. W. Seinhorst had a long career in an institute associated with Wageningen University in The Netherlands. He made major contributions to the understanding of the relationship between nematode population levels and host damage. Also in the area of nematode population dynamics. Return to Table of Contents
	Mohammad Rafiq Siddiqi (1934-2017) Photograph from Nematology 19:1237-1241	M.R. Siddiqi was an enormously productive nematode taxonomist and systematist who spent much of his career at the Commonwealth Agricultuiral Bureau in St. Albans, England. In more than 280 publications he described 671 new species representing 248 genera. His book, "Tylenchida Parasites of Plants and Insects", published in 1986 and revised in 2000, remains a nematological classic. Return to Table of Contents

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References:

Ayoub, S.M. 1977. Plant Nematology: An Agricultural Training Aid. California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento.

Christie, J.R. 1959. Plant Nematodes. Their Bionomics and Control. University of Florida. Gainesville.

Mai, W.F. and R.E. Motsinger. 1987. History of the Society of Nematologists. Pp 1-6 in J.A. Veech and D.W. Dickson (eds) Vistas on Nematology, Society of Nematologists, Hyattsville, MD.

Raski, D.J., I.J. Thomason, J.J. Chitambar and H. Ferris. 2002. A History of Nematology in California. (http://plpnemweb.ucdavis.edu/nemaplex/histnemcalif.htm)

Sasser, J.N. and W.R. Jenkins. 1960. Nematology: Fundamentals and Recent Advances. UNC Press, Chapel Hill.

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