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John Charles Walker
John Charles Walker
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an unusual ability to scientifically assess plant disease problems ant! clevelop methods for their control.
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wife Marian Dixon Walker in 1982, ant! his son John William Walker in 1938.
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kraut cabbage, which were major vegetable crops in Wisconsin. His pioneering research on genetic resistance to the yellows disease saver!
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Later, similar successful research efforts resultec! in the clevelopment of the first beans resistant to the troublesome bacterial disease known as halo blight.
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the state's canning-beet industry by developing an inexpensive fertilization treatment to cure the troublesome internal black spot disease, which he fount! to be causer!
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international reputation as one of the worId's outstanding plant pathologists grew, potential graduate students en c! postcloctoral scientists sought out his research laboratory.
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his relationships with these persons from foreign countries, whether they were his graduate students or scientists who came to undertake a postcloctoral research project. He learner!
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the $50,000 Wolf Foundation Prize in Agriculture in Israel for making "significant en c! lasting contributions to the advance of world agriculture." The prize committee judged him "among history's greatest three or four plant pathologists." To summarize, the innovativeness, thoroughness, and number of Professor John Charles Walker's scientific accomplishments en c!
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Many of tociay's vegetable cultivars still carry the cliseaseresistant genes from his vegetable releases. He was truly a fine person en c!
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15:246-52. 1939 Internal black spot of garden beet.
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Certain environmental and nutritional factors affecting Aphanomyces root rot of garden pea.
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Protease of Pseudomones lachrymans in relation to cucumber angular leaf spot. Phytopathology 57:236-71.
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