Ross Beever
Ross Ewen Beever | |
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| Born | 3 January 1946 Te Kūiti, New Zealand |
| Died | 3 June 2010 (aged 64) Auckland, New Zealand |
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Ross Ewen Beever (3 January 1946 – 3 June 2010) was a New Zealand geneticist and
mycologist
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Academic career
Born in
Auckland University with a thesis Growth of fungi on potato extract media and a PhD at Leeds entitled Genetic and biochemical studies of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in Neurospora crassa
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On his return to New Zealand he worked for
Phytoplasma australiense, responsible for cabbage tree mortality, and Phytophthora species responsible for Kauri dieback.[1][2][3]
He was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2004.[4]
Beever died in Auckland in 2010.[5] The Ross Beever Memorial Mycological Award was established by the New Zealand Mycological Society in 2014.[6] Fungus taxa named in his honour include the species Colletotrichum beeveri[7] and Cortinarius beeverorum,[8] and the genus Rossbeevera.[9]
References
- ^ "Obituaries | Dr Ross Ewen Beever MSc (Auckland), PhD (Leeds), FRSNZ, FNZIAHS, FAPPS | 3 January 1946 – 3 June 2010" (PDF). New Zealand Garden Journal (Journal of the RNZIH). 13 (2): 28–30. 28 August 2011 [December 2010]. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
- ^ "Ross Ewen Beever « Obituaries « Fellowship « The Academy « Our Organisation « Royal Society of New Zealand". royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
- New Zealand Journal of Botany48(3–4): 139–151 (2010).
- S2CID 8636454.
- ^ Pickmere, Arnold (19 June 2010). "Employing science to rescue plants". New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
- ^ "Ross Beever Memorial Mycological Award (RBMMA)". Fungal Network of New Zealand. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
- PMID 23136457.
- S2CID 14326543.
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