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Petersen"s main research was in what was then known as lower fungi - Chytridiomycota and Oomycetes, but he also studied the systematics of Red algae.
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He made a major contribution to unveiling the mysterious die-back of eel grass in Northern European waters in the early 20th Century as a pathogen outbreak. Parallel to these lines of research, he investigated the intraspecific morphological variation in plant species - which would today be called quantitative genetics. The Oomycete genus Petersenia is named to his honour.
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