Benjamin Minge Duggar (September 1, 1872 – September 10, 1956) was an American plant physiologist.Makers of American Botany, Harry Baker Humphrey, Ronald Press Company, Library of Congress Card Number 61-18435 He was born at Gallion,

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He studied at several Southern schools, including

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, 1891), and at Harvard,

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(

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, 1898), and in

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, and

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. As a specialist in

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, he held various positions in experiment stations and colleges until 1901, when he was appointed physiologist in the Bureau of Plant Industry,

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, for which he wrote bulletins. He was

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of botany at the

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from 1902 to 1907 and thereafter held the

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of plant physiology at Cornell. He was vice president of the

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in 1912 and 1914. From 1917 to 1919, he was acting professor of biological chemistry at the Washington University Medical School. Surprisingly, he is best remembered for an achievement in another discipline occurring in the late 1940s, his discovery of

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(Aureomycin), the first of the tetracycline antibiotics, from a soil bacterium growing in allotment soil. Professor Duggar contributed many articles to botanical magazines. His publications include:
''Fungous Diseases of Plants''
(1909)
''Plant Physiology''
(1911)
''Mushroom Growing''
(1915)

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Benjamin Minge Duggar
* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Duggar, Benjamin Minge American botanists People from Hale County, Alabama American science writers Auburn University alumni Harvard University alumni Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences alumni Cornell University faculty University of Missouri faculty 1872 births 1956 deaths Washington University in St. Louis faculty Plant physiologists

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