Thomas Jonathan Burrill

Thomas Jonathan Burrill (born April 25, 1839 in Pittsfield , Massachusetts , † April 14, 1916 ) was an American botanist . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Burrill ".

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In 1868 Burrill became a professor at the University of Illinois . In 1915 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Burrill discovered bacterial causes of plant diseases ; In addition to various phytopathogenic fungi , he was the first to describe the bacterial causative agent of fire blight , Erwinia amylovora (as Micrococcus amylovorus ). He also described a type of Micrococcus gallicidus (later Pasteurella gallicida ), which is now regarded as a synonym for Pasteurella multocida .

A bacterial disease of corn . Champaign [Ill.]: University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, 1889.
Fire blight: the foundation of phytobacteriology / selected papers of Thomas J. Burrill, Joseph C. Arthur and Merton B. Waite; edited, with introductory and concluding essays, by Clay S. Griffith, Turner B. Sutton and Paul D. Peterson. St. Paul, Minn .: APS Press, c2003

DA Glawe: Thomas J. Burrill, Pioneer in Plant Pathology . In: Annual Review of Phytopathology . tape 30 , 1992, pp. 17-25 .

↑ JP Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature - Genus Pasteurella ( Memento of the original of February 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

Erwin F. Smith: In Memoriam: Thomas Jonathan Burrill ( obituary published in the Journal of Bacteriology of the American Society for Microbiology ; PDF, 683 kB)
Author entry for Thomas Jonathan Burrill at IPNI .

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SURNAME	Burrill, Thomas Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American botanist and phytopathologist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 25, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pittsfield, Massachusetts , USA
DATE OF DEATH	April 14, 1916