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James Wessell Gerdemann (November 13, 1921 – December 19, 2008) was an American mycologist. He was known for his contributions to the taxonomy of the Glomeromycota, and expertise in arbuscular mycorrhizae. He earned his bachelor and master's degrees in botany at the University of Missouri. His PhD dissertation, titled "The resistance of two tomato varieties to formae of ''Fusarium oxysporum''", was obtained in 1949 at the University of California at Berkeley.〔 The Gerdemann Botanic Preserve in Yachats, Oregon is named after him.〔 ==Biography and academic education== James Wessel Gerdemann was born in November 13, 1921, in Pendleton, Oregon, and died at the age of 87 in December 19, 2008, in Yachats, Oregon. His parents were Carl Gerdemann and Cora Wessel. Since his childhood he showed his love in growing plants, an example of this passion is his vast cactus collection, which he used as decoration of his house’s cellar during winter. He graduated at the age of 16 in a local high school and started working in a store owned by his father and uncle, the Gerdemann’s store was with the family for approximately 90 years. When his father needed to do business in St. Louis, Gerdemann used to be dropped off at the Missouri Botanical Garden, developing, then, his will to achieve something different as a career. Gerdemann completed his undergraduate and Master’s degree in botany at the University of Missouri. To make his way through college he lived a simple life and had several jobs to pay his studies. He worked as a waiter at a women’s college; had the responsibility of counting seeds and correct mistakes in the inventory records at the University’s herbarium, where he was recognized for his knowledge about plants; and during summers he had a job at the Oregon Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service, working inside Oregon’s forests with the management of a fungal disease that affects white pine, the white pine blister rust (''Cronartium ribicola''). This last experience brought him the gratitude for Oregon’s environment and his permanent love for the region. After achieving his B.S and M.S degrees in Botany at the University of Missouri, he attained an assistantship at the University of California, in Berkeley. There he obtained his doctorate degree in plant pathology and was offered a job to work at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. In Illinois his family started to increase after he met Janice Olbrich in 1942 and marry her six months later on July 2, 1942. In order to accomplish the couple’s wish to have a big family, they had three kids, Steve, Dale, and Glenn, who they would often take to vacations in Oregon to have fun in the forest camping and hiking. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Wessell Gerdemann」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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