Dow Vauter Baxter (January 16, 1895 – December 31, 1965) was an American mycologist. He was an authority on

wood-decay fungi A wood-decay or xylophagous fungus is any species of fungus that digests moist wood, causing it to rot. Some species of wood-decay fungi attack dead wood, such as brown rot, and some, such as ''Armillaria'' (honey fungus), are parasitic and col ...

, especially the

polypore Polypores are a group of fungi that form large fruiting bodies with pores or tubes on the underside (see Delimitation for exceptions). They are a morphological group of basidiomycetes-like gilled mushrooms and hydnoid fungi, and not all polyp ...

s. Baxter was a professor of

forest pathology Forest pathology is the research of both biotic and abiotic maladies affecting the health of a forest ecosystem, primarily fungal pathogens and their insect vectors. It is a subfield of forestry and plant pathology. Forest pathology is part ...

at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, where he started employment in 1926. The fungus '' Rhizopogon baxteri'' was named in Baxter's honor. He also published an illustrated account of fieldwork with two colleagues to study Alaskan forests and forest diseases.

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American mycologists 1895 births 1965 deaths University of Michigan faculty {{Mycologist-stub

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