Scientist honoured
Dr E. E. Chamberlain was unanimously elected an honorary life member of the New Zealand Microbiological Society at its annual meeting in Nelson in recognition of his important contributions to the study of plant virus diseases in New Zealand. From 1957 until his retirement in 1968 he was director of the Plant Diseases Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. In 1928 he was appointed to the Plant Research Station in Palmerston North, an organisation from which several divisions of the present D.S.I.R. later developed. There he worked on diseases of the potato and tomato before becoming a specialist in plant viruses. He was able to show that viruses affect the
yield and quality of many plants important in agriculture, horticulture and fruit growing, and he initiated studies on their control by certification methods, breeding for resistance, control of vectors and by more specialised means such as heat treatment of nucleus plant stocks.
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Press, 22 September 1978, Page 16
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