History of Plant Pathology in Australasia
Compiled by Peter Williamson
Attempts to co-ordinate plant
pathology throughout Australia can be traced as far back as the conferences on
rust in wheat held in Melbourne in 1890, Sydney in 1891, Adelaide in 1892,
Brisbane in 1894 and Melbourne in 1896. These meetings were also a most
significant step in establishing Australian plant pathology on the world scene.
In New Zealand, the pioneer of plant pathology was Gordon Herriot Cunningham. In
1928 he lead a team of four mycologists at the new Plant Research Station. By
1935 the team had increased to eight scientists. The Plant Diseases Division was
formed in 1935 and was responsible for plant pathology, entomology and pomology,
with Cunningham as Director.
Background References
The following references and publications provide
background to the development of plant pathology in Australasia.
Banks and
Knight(1806) First Rust Report from Australia
Board of
Agriculture(1892) Rust or Mildew on Wheat Plants
Cooke M (1872) Rust,
Smut, Mildew, & Mould. An Introduction to the study of Microscopic Fungi
CarneWM (1928) Phytopathology in Australia
Margaret Senior (1964) Plant Disease Illustrations
Fish S (1970) The
History
of Plant Pathology in Australia
Fish S
(1970) Daniel McAlpine - A Pioneer Plant Pathologist of Australia
Lilian Fraser
(1976) Diseases of Citrus Trees in Australia - The First Hundred Years
White NH (1981) A
History
of plant pathology in Australia
Teakle DS
(1985) Significant Plant Virus Work at the University of Queensland
Simmonds J
(1986) A short History
of the early years of plant pathology in Queensland
May (1990)
History
of the Study of Australian Agaricales
Parbery I and Sheather (1990) Aspects of Australian Mycology: 1800-1900
Pascoe (1990)
History
of Systemic Mycology in Australasia
Close R (1994)
History
of Plant Pathology in New Zealand
Close R.
(1995) The ever-changing challenges of plant pathology
May and
Pascoe (1996) Fungi of Australia - History
of the taxonomic study of Australian
fungi
Shaw D. (1998) Early years in Papua New Guinea
Stirling et al.
(2008) The History
of plant and soil nematology in Australia and New Zealand
Parbery D
(2015) Daniel McAlpine and The Bitter Pit
Parbery D (2015)
Daniel McAlpine - Father of Australian Plant Pathology
Plant and Soil Nematology in
Australia and New Zealand during the period 1975 to 2008
Encyclopedia of
Australian Science
Disaster
knocking at the door – the ongoing battle against plant disease in Australia.
Encyclopedia of
New Zealand
Early Newspaper Clippings
Early Newspaper Reports in TROVE
History
of Smut Fungi in Australia
Early Pathologists in Australia and New
Zealand
Frederick Bailey 1827 - 1915
Joseph
Bancroft 1836 - 1894
Flora Martin
1845 - 1923
Daniel McAlpine 1849 - 1932
Henry Tryon 1856 - 1943
Walter Mervyn Carne 1885 -
1952
Walter Waterhouse 1887 - 1969
Ethel
McLennan 1891 - 1983
Jack Simmonds 1901 -
1992
Rupert Best
1903 - 1991
Neville White
1906 - 1991
Lilian
Fraser 1908 - 1987
Olga May Goss
1916 - 1994
Gretna Weste
1916 - 2006
Dorothy Shaw
1920 - 2007
Lionel Stubbs 1916 - 2003
Formation and Early
History
of APPS
As indicated in Purss (1994)
the belief that there should be a Society of Plant Pathologists in Australia
evolved over a number of years and finally came to fruition in 1969. The
references below provide details of its inception.
Flentje NT
(1968) Preformation of the Australasian Plant Pathology Society.
Purss GS (1994)
History
of the Australasian Plant Pathology Society
Stubbs LL (1994) A
discussion of past events in the development of Australian plant
pathology
MacNish G (1994) Australasian Plant Pathology Society Inc
Purss GS (1994)
Presidents of the Australasian Plant Pathology Society
Close RC (1994) Plant
Pathology in New Zealand
Magarey R (2007) Early
History
Magarey RC (2007)
APPS: Stepping into the future – how far can we go?
Foundation Members of the Society
50th Anniversary
Poster
Management Committees of APPS and Locations
APPS Past Committees and
Locations
Australasian Conferences
APPS Conferences
Earlier
Conferences
History
of APPS Publications
Dr Bob Dodman a Foundation Member
of the Society and Editor-in-Chief of Australasian Plant Pathology from 1988 to
1998 has prepared a Trilogy on the History
of Australasian Plant Pathology
Society publications. They are entitled History
of Australasian Plant Pathology,
History
of APPS News and History
of Australasian Plant Disease Notes (this
corresponds with the chronology of the release of each publication).
As
explained in the History
of Australasian Plant Pathology, the first Society
publication in 1972 was titled Australian Plant Pathology Society Newsletter.
Articles published in this Newsletter could not be cited as they were not peer
reviewed. This situation changed in June 1978 when the Newsletter became
Australasian Plant Pathology and items submitted were processed by an Editorial
Panel as in all other scientific journals. Issues of the Newsletter published
between March 1972 and June 1978 may be found on the Springer website. APPS News
followed on from APP in 1992 and Australasian Plant Disease Notes commenced in
2006.
History
of Australasian Plant Pathology
History
of APPS Newsletter
History
of Australasian Plant Disease Notes
History
of Pathogen of the Month
History
of the APPS Website
1996 to 2009 (australasianplantpathologysociety.org.au)
2010 to
present (appsnet.au)
Early Photographs
Early Photographs
of Plant Pathology in Australasia
Walter Lawry Waterhouse Collection
Early
Photographs from PNG
History
of Plant Pathology in Japan
History
of Plant
Pathology
Exotic Plant Pathogens in Japan
History
of Other Societies
American Phytopathology Society
British Society for Plant Pathology
Indian Phytopathological
Society International
Society for Plant Pathology
Peruvian
Association for Phytopathology