Background
Jehangir Fardunji Dastur was born on September 10,1886 in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India.
Jehangir Fardunji Dastur was born on September 10,1886 in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India.
Jehangir Fardunji Dastur graduated from the University of Bombay in 1909 and specialized in mycology and plant pathology. He got his Master of Science degree from Bombay University in 1918. Later Diploma of Imperial College in London 1920.
Jehangir Fardunji Dastur joined Imperial Agriculture Service in 1919. He was the Head of the Division of Mycology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. In 1947, as the first President of the Indian Phytopathological Society.
An eminent mycologist, Jehangir Fardunji Dastur traced a disease of castor seedlings to a new fungus that was named after him, Phytophthora parasitica dastur. His other works include the study of a new mode of sexual reproduction in fungi, late blight of potatoes in the plains of Bihar and its investigations, black thread diseases of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) in Burma, cytology of Tilletia tritci rust of wheat, establishment of the mode of primary infection by smut in sugarcane and study of mosaic diseases of sugarcane. Jehangir Fardunji Dastur also investigated a dry method of treating jowar seed against smut, foot rot disease of pan and wheat, anthracnose disease of cotton bolls, diseases of gram and rice, fink disease of orange trees and diseases of plantains, papaya, chillies, cucumber and storage of potatoes.
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