Peter Nielsen
Male, Deceased Person
1829 – 1897
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Who was Peter Nielsen?
Peter Nielsen was a Danish botanist and plant pathologist. He was born at a farm in Vonsbæk parish in the Duchy of Schleswig. He became a school teacher at Ørslev in Zealand, where he studied the local flora. He was particularly interested in plants useful to agriculture and in plant pathogens. He was a prolific writer on these topics. He undertook meticulous studies of rust fungi. He was the first to describe the host alternation of Puccinia poarum between grasses and Tussilago farfara.
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