Ethel Mary Doidge, English-born South African mycologist and plant microbiologist (Nottingham, England 31 May 1887 – Anerley, South Coast, Natal 22 September 1965)

Identified hundreds of new fungal species and some bacterial species

DESCRIBED VALID FUNGI GENERA (1921)

Macowaniella

Palawaniella

Parastigmatea

DESCRIBED (incomplete)

A wilt disease of cucurbits with L.J. Kresfelder (1932)

A geranium rust caused by Puccinia pelargonii zonale (1926)

Doidge bacterial spot disease caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria (1920)

A bacterial spot of citrus (1917)

A bacterial blight of pear blossoms (1917)

A bacterial disease of mango (Bacillus mangiferae) 1915