George Lorenzo Ingram Zundel (Brigham City, Utah, December 23, 1885 – March 10, 1950) was an American mycologist, phycologist, and plant pathologist.
Biography He studied at Brigham Young University in 1909, and afterwards at the Agricultural College of Utah (now Utah State University), where in 1911, he received a degree. He taught botany at the university, and middle school biology in Brigham City. In 1913 he moved to New York and two years later received a M.Sc. from Cornell University. In 1926 he began studying at Yale University; where he defended a doctoral thesis, dedicated to Ustilaginomycetes. From 1928 to 1946, he worked at the University of Pennsylvania, and then retired for health reasons. Zundel died March 10, 1950, in Brigham City.
Some publications
1937. Raspberry Disease Control
Books 1939. (Ustilaginales): Additions and Corrections. North American Flora 7, splits 14. With John Hendley Barnhart. Ed. New York Botanical Garden, 75 pp. 1938. The Ustilaginales of South Africa 1938. To New Smut from Southern Chile 1937. Miscellaneous Notice on the Ustilaginales
Honors
Eponymy Genus Zundeliomyces Vánky, 1987 Zundelula Thirum. & Naras., 1952 without. Dermatosorus Sawada, 1949
Species Sorosporium zundelianum Cif., 1933 without. Sporisorium tembuti (Henn. & Pole-Evans) Vánky, 2007 Sphacelotheca zundelii Hirschh., 1986, nom. inval. Sporisorium zundelianum Vánky, 1995 Tilletiazundelii Hirschh., 1943
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