Doug Dye

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Douglas Winton Dye ( July 12, 1921 - December 18, 2005 ) was a New Zealand microbiologist .

biography

Dye graduated in 1944 with a Bachelor of Agricultural Science at the Massey Agricultural College . He started working at the DSIR in 1946 . and spent the first ten years of his career as a pathologist studying pathogenic bacteria on crops in New Zealand. From 1956 to 1958 he studied in Edinburgh and graduated with a thesis on the taxonomy of the genus Xanthomonas for a PhD. This work demonstrated the lack of phenotypic diversity between specific pathogens in this genus. This led to the pathovar nomenclature used internationally for bacteria that cause disease in plants .

He clarified the relationships between the groups of bacteria represented by the genera Erwinia and Corynebacterium . Dye served on several committees on the taxonomy of bacteria, including the International Committee on the Systematics of Bacteria . He was involved in the complete revision of the bacteria names in the Approved Lists of Names of Bacteria . In the Committee on Taxonomy of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria of the International Society of Plant Pathologists , he developed the International Standards for Naming Pathovars (International Standards for Naming Pathovars). From 1979 to 1983 he was head of this committee.

From the late 1960s he was head of a growing bacteriological department in the plant diseases division of the DSIR. Dye's collection of bacterial cultures, established in 1951, developed into today's ICMP culture collection , which is kept at Landcare Research in Tamaki.

He retired in December 1983 and died on December 18, 2005.

Awards

  • Honorary Member of the New Zealand Microbiological Society (1984)
  • A genus of Proteobacteria is named after its name: Dyella
  • Namesake of the collection and the bacteriological laboratories ( DW Dye Microbiology Laboratory ) of Landcare in the Auckland suburb of Tamaki (August 2004, Dye was present when the name was given)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NZ university graduates, 1870–1961: Dr – E. Shadows of Time, accessed April 17, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f D. Dye . New Zealand Microbological Society , 2015, archived from the original on January 24, 2015 ; accessed on April 7, 2019 (English, original website no longer available).
personal data
SURNAME Dye, Doug
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dye, Douglas Winton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand microbiologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1921
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 2005