RefNo | EC/1974/25 |
Previous numbers | Cert XIX, 136 |
Level | Item |
Title | Rishbeth, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
Description | Citation typed |
Citation | Internationally accepted as a leading forest pathologist, especially for his work on fungal root diseases of plantation crops. He has thoroughly elucidated the Fomes root disease of conifers and was the first to prove that the pathogen is introduced into healthy stands by widespread spore infection of stump surfaces. His methods of preventing this by inoculation of stumps with a fungal competitor is the first such control practice to become economically acceptable. He has devised elegant techniques for the rapid and precise analysis of field problems in the laboratory and has applied them also to Panama disease of bananas, Armillaria root disease of hardwood trees and bacterial canker of poplars. |
AccessStatus | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA2090 | Rishbeth; John (1918 - 1991) | 1918 - 1991 |