Elvin Charles Stakman
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Biography
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Selected publications
Biography
1906 earns bachelors degree from the University of Minnesota
1909 begins to work in the plant physiology department
1910 earns masters degree from the University of Minnesota
1913 earns PhD from the University of Minnesota, appointed assistant professor
1918 promoted to full professor
1940 - 1953 chairman of the department, director of the Federal Cereal Rust Laboratory for the United States Department of Agriculture
Stakman worked with rusts for his whole life, concentrating on the problems involved in identifying and effectively treating the "physiological race"s of a single species.
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Sources
Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
(Die Geschichte der Mykologie)
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Selected Publications
Elvin Charles Stakman (1914) "A Study in cereal rusts, physiological races" in University of Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin 138 pp. 1 - 56
Elvin Charles Stakman & F. J. Piemeisel (1917) "Biologic forms of Puccinia graminis on cereals and grasses" in Journal of Agricultural Research 10:9 pp. 429 - 496
Elvin Charles Stakman & M. N. Levine (1922) "The determination of biologic forms of Puccinia graminis in Triticum spp." in University of Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin 8 pp. 1 - 10
Elvin Charles Stakman & J. J. Christensen (1927) "Heterothallism in Ustilago zeae" in Phytopathology 17:12 pp. 827 - 834
Elvin Charles Stakman, J. J. Christensen & H. E. Brewbaker (1928) "Physiologic specialization in Puccinia sorghi" in Phytopathology 18:4 pp. 345 - 354
Elvin Charles Stakman, Bjorn Peturson, C. J. Eide & J. J. Christensen (1929) "Mutation and hybridization in Ustilago zeae: Part I. Mutation" in University of Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Bulletin 65 pp. 1 - 87
Elvin Charles Stakman, M. N. Levine & R. V. Cotter (1930) "Origin of physiologic forms of Puccinia graminis through hybridization and mutation" in Scientific Agriculture 10:11 pp. 707 - 720
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