Bright Sparcs
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Weste, Gretna Margaret (1917 - )AM |
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Born: 5 September 1917 Dumfries, Scotland | ||
Gretna Margaret Weste worked in the School of Botany at the University of Melbourne 1961-82, retiring as Reader. She was the foremost authority in Australia on the biological behaviour of the cinnamon fungus, Phytophthora cinnamoni, which travels in disturbed soil and was responsible for the 'dieback' disease in forests of Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia. |
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