Angie Beckwith

Angie Maria Beckwith
NationalityAmerican
Known forBotany, Plant pathology
Scientific career
InstitutionsUnited States Department of Agriculture

Angie Maria Beckwith (27 January 1881 – 2 October 1964) was an American phytopathologist, at the primary pathology laboratory at the USDA's Bureau of Plant Industry under Erwin F. Smith and Florence Hedges during the 1920s.[1][2][3]

In 1921, Beckwith was one of more than twenty women who worked in Smith's lab, and who were credited with studying bacterial wilt in new dry beans.[1] Among her cohort were several notable mycologists and botanists including Charlotte Elliott, Nellie A. Brown, Edith Cash, Mary Katherine Bryan, Anna Jenkins, and Lucia McCulloch, Pearle Smith.[1]

She was a member of the Mycological Society of America and published regularly in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club.[4]

  1. ^ a b c Harveson, Robert M.; Schwartz, Howard F.; Urrea, Carlos A.; Yontz, C. Dean (2015). "Baterial Wilt of Dry-Edible Beans in the Central High Plains of the U.S.: Past, Present, and Future". Plant Disease. 99 (12): 1665–1677. doi:10.1094/PDIS-03-15-0299-FE. PMID 30699522.
  2. ^ Ristaino, Jean Beagle, ed. (2008). Pioneering women in plant pathology (1 ed.). St. Paul, Minn.: APS Press. ISBN 978-0890543597.
  3. ^ Bailey, Martha J. (1994). American Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary. Denver, Colorado: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-87436-740-9.
  4. ^ Couch, J.N. (1941). "Directory". Mycological Society of America. 33 (6): 671.