Clarence James Hickman

For the American physicist, see Clarence N. Hickman.

Clarence James Hickman (1 April 1914 – 24 September 1980) was a British-Canadian mycologist. He is noteworthy for his discovery in 1940 that the oomycete species Phytophthora fragariae is the cause of the disease red stele (aka red core root disease) in strawberry plants.[1]

  1. ^ Hickman, C. J. (1940). "The red core root disease of the Strawberry caused by Phytophthora fragariae n. sp". Journal of Pomology. 18 (2): 89–118. doi:10.1080/03683621.1941.11513556.