George Lorenzo Zundel
George Lorenzo Ingram Zundel was an American mycologist, phycologist, and plant pathologist.
Biography
He studied at Brigham Young University in 1909, and afterwards at the Agricultural College of Utah, where in 1911, he received a degree. He taught botany at the university, and middle school biology in Brigham City. In 1913 he moved to New York and two years later received a M.Sc. from Cornell University. In 1926 he began studying at Yale University; where he defended a doctoral thesis, dedicated to Ustilaginomycetes. From 1928 to 1946, he worked at the University of Pennsylvania, and then retired for health reasons. Zundel died March 10, 1950, in Brigham City.Some publications
- 1937. ''Raspberry Disease Control''
Books
- 1939. : Additions and Corrections. North American Flora 7, splits 14. With John Hendley Barnhart. Ed. New York Botanical Garden, 75 pp.
- 1938. The Ustilaginales of South Africa
- 1938. To New Smut from Southern Chile
- 1937. ''Miscellaneous Notice on the Ustilaginales''
Honors
[Eponym]y
; GenusZundeliomyces Vánky, 1987Zundelula Thirum. & Naras., 1952 without. Dermatosorus Sawada, 1949; SpeciesSorosporium zundelianum Cif., 1933 without. Sporisorium ''tembuti Vánky, 2007Sphacelotheca zundelii Hirschh., 1986, nom. inval.Sporisorium zundelianum Vánky, 1995Tilletiazundelii'' Hirschh., 1943