Professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who pr ...

Eugene Byron Smalley (1926–2002) was an American

plant pathologist Plant pathology (also phytopathology) is the scientific study of diseases in plants caused by pathogens (infectious organisms) and environmental conditions (physiological factors). Organisms that cause infectious disease include fungus, fung ...

. Smalley joined the

University of Wisconsin-Madison A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...

in 1957 with the specific aim of finding a way to control

Dutch elm disease Dutch elm disease (DED) is caused by a member of the sac fungi (Ascomycota) affecting elm trees, and is spread by elm bark beetles. Although believed to be originally native to Asia, the disease was accidentally introduced into Americas, America ...

Balousek, M. (2002). Dutch elm disease expert dies at 75. ''The Wisconsin State Journal'', March 28, 2002. Assembling seeds from around the northern hemisphere, Smalley developed resistant strains of

elm Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the flowering plant genus ''Ulmus'' in the plant family Ulmaceae. They are distributed over most of the Northern Hemisphere, inhabiting the temperate and tropical-montane regions of North ...

s which were patented and released to commerce, notably 'Sapporo Autumn Gold', and 'New Horizon'.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Smalley, Eugene Byron 1926 births 2002 deaths Botanists with author abbreviations American phytopathologists American botanists 20th-century agronomists