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Elvin Charles Stakman
Elvin Charles Stakman
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M CHRISTENSEN ELVIN CHARLES STAIN was born May 17, 1885, on a farm near Ahnapee, Wisconsin, a small town on the west shore of Lake Michigan, the eastern terminus of the twenty-threemile-Iong Green Bay and Ahnapee Railroad.
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After he had paid his tuition of fifteen dollars for the semester and bought his books, he had sixty-five cents left. He worked at various odd jobs to help pay his way, and workoct summers in Brownton and, in the harvest season, on threshing crews on nearby farms to help earn college money; he also received some needed financial help from his sister, who at age seventeen hac!
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to Plant Pathology and Agricultural Botany, and later to Plant Pathology)
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For his Ph.D. work he undertook a study of "bridging hosts" in the black stem rust fungus, Puccinia graminis.
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This was the start of his approximately forty years of work with black stem rust of wheat— work which eventually reduced this disease from a major plague of wheat throughout the world to a relatively minor problem that can be and is being coped with effectively. Black stem rust still is with us, and probably always will be, but it no longer is the fearsome and widespread destroyer it once was.
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As section heart, Stakman in the ~ 920s and ~ 930s attractec! outstanding graduate students from all over the worict, who came to Minnesota for their acivancecI degrees in plant pathology, and who carried his teachings and some of his inspiration with them when they returned to their own countries.
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They hacI no chilciren. In 1918 Stakman was primarily responsible for organizing, and for a time was leader of, a campaign to gain f~nancial and legal support from the fecleral anct state governments to eradicate barberries, the alternate host of the black stem rust fungus, from the major spring wheat growing areas of the Uniter!
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Their report was uniformly favorable to the undertaking of such a program, and in 1943 the joint Mexican Department of Agriculture-Rockefeller Foundation program officially got uncler way. It turned out to be phenomenally successful, other countries became interestect, and similar programs were initiated in Colombia and Chile in South America, in the Philippines (in colIaboration with the Forct Founclation)
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As of 1981, thirteen such international centers of research were in operation, uncler the general aegis of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGTAR) , with support from many different governments, agricultural agencies, and foundations.
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Can it help promote the general use of the scientific code of scrupulous intellectual integrity within each society and between all of them? Can it help to eradicate intolerance and bigotry from societies of the world as it has helped eradicate malaria, cholera, and yellow fever from many areas of the world?
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The bulk of his estate, amounting to approximately $500,000, was left to the Department of Plant Pathology of the University of Minnesota, the income to be used to further various worthy causes for which public funds are not available. Even in cleath, Stakman contributed to the advancement of the profession, the department, and the university that he had server!
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; the Mecialla cle Merite Agronomico, Colombia, South America, 1955; the Centennial Awarcl, Michigan State College, 1955; the Certificate of Merit, Botanical Society of America, 1956; the Otto Appel Medal, 1957; the first Cosmos Club Award, 1964; anct La Cruz cle Boyaca, Colombia, South America, 1966.
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The occurrence of Puccinia graminis tritici-compacti in the southern United States. Phytopathology 8:141-49.
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Flor. Varietal resistance of spring wheats to Tilletia levis.
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Physiologic specialization of Ustilago zeae and Puccinia sorghi and their relation to corn improvement. (Abstract)
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10:707-20. 1931 Dissemination of cereal rusts.
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Hines. Population trends of physiologic races of Puccinia graminis tritici in the United States for the period 1930-41.
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Razas fisiologicas de Puccinia graminis tritici en Mexico. Folleto Tecnico no.
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581 pp. 1959 The role of plant pathology in the scientific and social development of the world.
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