George Lorenzo Zundel
George Lorenzo Ingram Zundel (Brigham City, Utah, December 23, 1885 – March 10, 1950) was an American mycologist, phycologist, and plant pathologist.
Biography
He studied at the School of Brigham Young in 1909, and afterwards in the Agricultural College of Utah (now Utah State University). And in 1911, he received a title of degree. He taught botany at the university, and in middle school biology Brigham. In 1913 he moved to New York two years later he received a M.Sc. by Cornell University In 1926 he began studying at Yale University; where he defended a doctoral thesis, dedicated to Ustilaginomycetes. From 1928-1946, he worked at the University of Pennsylvania, and then retired for health reasons. Zundel died March 10, 1950 in Brigham City, Utah
Some publications
The standard author abbreviation Zundel is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]
- 1937. Raspberry Disease Control
Books
- 1939. (Ustilaginales): 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
Eponymy
- Zundeliomyces Vánky, 1987
- Zundelula Thirum. & Naras., 1952 without. Dermatosorus Sawada, 1949
- Sorosporium zundelianum Cif., 1933 without. Sporisorium tembuti (Henn. & Pole-Evans) Vánky, 2007
- Sphacelotheca zundelii Hirschh., 1986, nom. inval.
- Sporisorium zundelianum Vánky, 1995
- Tilletiazundelii Hirschh., 1943