Peter Nielsen (botanist)
Peter Nielsen (1829–1897[1]) was a Danish botanist and plant pathologist. He was born at a farm in Vonsbæk parish in the Duchy of Schleswig. He became a school teacher at Ørslev in Zealand, where he studied the local flora. He was particularly interested in plants useful to agriculture and in plant pathogens. He was a prolific writer on these topics. He undertook meticulous studies of rust fungi.[2] He was the first to describe the host alternation of Puccinia poarum between grasses and Tussilago farfara.[3]
References
- ^ Index Fungorum Authors of Fungal Names
- ^ “Peter Nielsen”, pp. 221-223 in Warming, Eug. (1881). "Den danske botaniske Literatur fra de ældste Tider til 1880". Botanisk Tidsskrift (in Danish). 12: 42–217.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|trans_title=ignored (|trans-title=suggested) (help) - ^ Nielsen, P. (1877). "Bemærkninger om nogle Rustarter, navnlig om en genetisk Forbindelse mellem Aecidium tussilaginis Pers. og Puccinia poarum n. sp". Botanisk Tidsskrift (in Danish). 10: 26–42.
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