Jehangir Fardunji Dastur, Indian plant pathologist and mycologist (Bhavnagar, Gujrat 10 September 1886 – Bombay 01 May 1971)

Authored over 36 original papers and memoirs

PLANT DISEASES

Discovered Phytophthora parasitica responsible for blight of castor oil plants (1913)

First reported white tip disease of rice (1936)

Described “pan sukh” disease of rice plant (c.1937)

Described two new diseases of potato: leaf rot and tuber rot (1948)

DESCRIBED FUNGI SPECIES

Botryobasidium album 1946

Cochliobolus tritici 1942

Corticium album 1940

Vermicularia indica 1934

HONORS

Dasturella Mundkur & Kheswalla 1943 (Fungi)