Effie A. Southworth
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American botanist
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Effie A. Southworth's Degrees
- Bachelors Botany Smith College
- Masters Botany Smith College
- PhD Botany Smith College
Why Is Effie A. Southworth Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Effie Almira Southworth Spalding , was an American botanist and mycologist, and the first woman plant pathologist hired by the United States Department of Agriculture . Her most important discovery was the 1887 identification of the fungus Colletotrichum gossypii as the cause of cotton cankers, a disease which killed thousands of acres of cotton and was a major economic threat. She taught botany at several institutions, worked at the Desert Botanical Laboratory with her husband, and established the Botany Department Herbarium at the University of Southern California.
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