Background
WOOD, Ronald Karslake Starr was born on April 8, 1919 in Femdale. Son of Percival T. E. Wood and Florence Dix Starr.
WOOD, Ronald Karslake Starr was born on April 8, 1919 in Femdale. Son of Percival T. E. Wood and Florence Dix Starr.
Femdale Grammar School and Imperial College, London.
Lecturer Imperial College 1947, Reader in Plant Pathology 1955, Professor, of Plant Pathology since 1964. Director NATO Advanced Study Instituts 1970, 1975, 1980. Sir C. V. Raman Professor University of Madras 1980.
Regent’s Lecturer University of California 1981. Otto-Appel Denkmiinster 1978. Secretary-General First Institute Congress of Plant Pathology 1968.
Founder President Institute Society for Plant Pathology 1968, now Honorary. Chairman Governing Body E. Mailing Research Station. Governor Institute of Horticultural Research.
Correspondent.
Physiological Plant Pathology 1967, Phytotoxins in Plant Diseases (Editor with A. Ballio and A. Graniti) 1972, Specificity in Plant Diseases (Editor with A. Graniti) 1976, Active Defence Mechanisms in Plants (Editor) 1981, Plant Diseases: infection, damage and loss (Editor) 1984. Numerous papers in scientific journals.
Governing Body, Head Department, of Pure and Applied Biology 1981-1984. Commonwealth Fund Fellow 1950, Research Fellow Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station 1957, American Phytopathological Society 1976, Thurbum Fellow University of Sydney 1979. Deutsche Phytomedizinische Gesellschaft 1973.
Married Marjorie Schofield in 1947.