Clara H. Hasse
Clara Henriette Hasse | |
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Born | 1880 |
Died |
10 October 1926 Muskegon, Michigan |
Alma mater | University of Michigan |
Known for | Identified the cause of citrus canker |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botanist focused on plant pathology |
Institutions | Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Florida Agricultural Experiment Station |
Author abbrev. (botany) | C.H.Hasse |
Clara Henriette Hasse (1880 – 10 October 1926) was an American botanist whose research focused on plant pathology. She is known for identifying the cause of citrus canker, which was threatening crops in the Deep South.
Biography
After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1903 with a PhB.[1][2] She went to Washington, D.C., to take up an appointment as assistant horticulturist and botanist in the Bureau of Plant Industry at the U.S. Department of Agriculture under Erwin Frink Smith, the USDA's pathologist-in-charge.[1] Hasse was one of the twenty assistants that Smith hired during his tenure at the USDA. She later worked at the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station.[3] Hasse died at her home in Muskegon, Michigan, aged 46.[4]
Research
Her paper "Pseudomonas citri, the cause of Citrus canker", published in the Journal of Agricultural Research in 1915, was the first to identify the cause of citrus canker. While originally it was believed that citrus canker was of fungoid origin, Hasse found that bacteria are at its source. The discovery led to the development of methods for controlling the disease which saved the citrus crops in Florida, Alabama, Texas and Mississippi from being wiped out.[5][6]
Partial Bibliography
- Pseudomonas citri, the cause of Citrus canker (1915). Journal of Agricultural Research
References
- 1 2 Rossiter, Margaret W. (September 1980). ""Women's Work" in Science, 1880-1910". Isis. The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society. 71 (3): 381–398. doi:10.1086/352540. JSTOR 230118.
- ↑ Michigan, University of (1900-01-01). Calendar of the University of Michigan for ... The University.
- ↑ "Clara H. Hasse (1880?-1926)". Collection Record. Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved 30 March 2012.
- ↑ The Michigan Alumnus (1926), Volume 33, p. 284
- ↑ PSEUDOMONAS CITRI, THE CAUSE OF CITRUS CANKER (archive.org book reader)PSEUDOMONAS CITRI, THE CAUSE OF CITRUS CANKER (archive.org text version), Clara Hasse, Journal of Agricultural Research, 2015-10, Volume 4, p. 97.
- ↑ CITRUS CANKER, Frederick Wolf, Journal of Agricultural Research, 2016-10, Volume 6, p. 68.
- ↑ IPNI. C.H.Hasse.
External links
- Hasse, Clara H. "Pseudomonas citri, the cause of Citrus canker". Journal of Agricultural Research, Vol. IV, No. I, 15 April 1915