Florence Hedges (August 24, 1878 – December 17, 1956Ainsworth, Geoffrey Clough (1981). ''Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology.''

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, ) was a pioneering American

plant pathologist Plant pathology or phytopathology is the scientific study of plant diseases caused by pathogens (infectious organisms) and environmental conditions (physiological factors). Plant pathology involves the study of pathogen identification, disease ...

and

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

with the

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's Bureau of Plant Industry.Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1920). ''R.U.S. ural Uplook Service A Register of the Rural Leadership in the United States and Canada.''

Life and career

Hedges was born in

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. She graduated from

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in 1901. Much of her work involved investigations into bacteria-induced plant disease. Charlotte Elliot, Hellie A. Brown, Edith Cash, Mary Katharine Bryan, Anna Jenkins, and Lucia McCulloch, Pearle Smith, and Angie Beckwith were among the people she worked with while a researcher at the USDA. With

Erwin Frink Smith Erwin Frink Smith (January 21, 1854 – April 6, 1927) was an American plant pathologist with the United States Department of Agriculture. He played a major role in demonstrating that bacteria could cause plant disease. Life and career Smith wa ...

, she also translated the 1896 biography of

Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, Fermentation, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the la ...

Émile Duclaux Émile Duclaux (24 June 1840 – May 2, 1904) was a French microbiologist and chemist born in Aurillac, Cantal. He studied at the College of Aurillac, the Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and at École Normale Supérieure. In 1862 he began work as ...

.Smith, E. F., Hedges, F. (1920). ''Pasteur: The History of a Mind'' (orig. ''Pasteur, histoire d'un esprit''). W. B. Saunders Co. ASIN: B003GEE4AE She died in

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.Staff report (1957). Deaths. ''The Michigan Alumnus'' - Volume 63 - Page 252

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