Angie Beckwith Explained

Angie Maria Beckwith
Nationality:	American
Workplaces:	United States Department of Agriculture
Known For:	Botany, Plant pathology

Angie Maria Beckwith (27 January 1881 – 2 October 1964) was an American phytopathologist, at the primary pathology laboratory at the USDA's Bureau of Plant Industry under Erwin F. Smith and Florence Hedges during the 1920s.^{[1] [2] [3]}

In 1921, Beckwith was one of more than twenty women who worked in Smith's lab, and who were credited with studying bacterial wilt in new dry beans. Among her cohort were several notable mycologists and botanists including Charlotte Elliott, Nellie A. Brown, Edith Cash, Mary Katherine Bryan, Anna Jenkins, and Lucia McCulloch, Pearle Smith.

She was a member of the Mycological Society of America and published regularly in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Harveson. Robert M.. Schwartz. Howard F.. Urrea. Carlos A.. Yontz. C. Dean. Baterial Wilt of Dry-Edible Beans in the Central High Plains of the U.S.: Past, Present, and Future. Plant Disease. 99. 12. 1665–1677. 10.1094/PDIS-03-15-0299-FE. 2015. 30699522. free.
2. Book: Ristaino. Jean Beagle. Pioneering women in plant pathology. 2008. APS Press. St. Paul, Minn.. 978-0890543597. 1.
3. Book: Bailey. Martha J.. American Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary. registration. 1994. ABC-CLIO. Denver, Colorado. 978-0-87436-740-9.
4. 1941. Directory. Mycological Society of America. 33. 6. 671. Couch. J.N..