William Gardner Smith

British botanist (1866-1928).

William Gardner Smith (20 March 1866 – 8 December 1928) was a Scottish botanist and ecologist who pioneered the study and mapping of the vegetation of the United Kingdom. He was a founding member of the British Ecological Society.

Abbreviations: Wm.G.Sm.

Occupations: ecologist, botanist

Citizenships: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom

Languages: English

Dates: 1866-01-01T00:00:00Z – 1928-01-01T00:00:00Z

Birth place: Dundee

Authorship mentions: 0 plants, 1 fungus

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1 fungus contributed to1 fungus:

Fusarium culmorum (Wm.G. Sm.) Sacc. 1892

fungi species in the nectriaceae family

Fusarium culmorum is a fungal plant pathogen and the causal agent of seedling blight, foot rot, ear blight, stalk rot, common root rot and other diseases of cereals, grasses, and a wide variety of monocots and dicots. In coastal dunegrass (Leymus mollis), F. culmorum is a nonpathogenic symbiont conferring both salt and drought tolerance to the plant.

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