Mathilde Bensaude

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Mathilde Simone Rachel Pauline Bensaude was an internationally renowned mycologist and plant pathologist whose pioneering doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne first showed heterothallism in the basidiomycetes. Bensaúde is also a major pioneer in the field of Plant Pathology in Portugal, and founded Portugal's Plant Quarantine Services and is one of the founders of the Portugal Society of Biology.