Doug Dye 942569 189470726 2008-02-06T10:30:09Z Cosnahang 2815960 Infobox Person Added {{Infobox Person | name = Doug Dye | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Douglas W. Dye | birth_date = {{birth date|1921|97|12}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|2005|12|18|1921|97|12}} | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | residence = | nationality = [[New Zealand]] | other_names = | known_for = Microbiologist | education = PhD (Edinburgh) 1958 | employer = New Zealand [[Department of Scientific and Industrial Research]] | occupation = | home_town = | title = | salary = | networth = | height = | weight = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Dr Douglas W. Dye''' ([[12 July]] [[1921]]–[[18 December]] [[2005]]) was a [[New Zealand]] microbiologist. Dye began work with the [[Department of Scientific and Industrial Research|DSIR]] in 1946 and for the first 10 years of his career, worked as a pathologist on the pathogenic bacteria of crops in New Zealand. From 1956 till 1958, he studied in [[Edinburgh]] for his PhD, the subject of which was the taxonomy of [[Xanthomonas]]. It was this meticulous work, showing the absence of phenotypic diversity between specific pathogens in this genus, that led to the development of [[pathovar]] nomenclature, applied internationally to plant pathogenic bacteria today. Subsequently, Dye clarified the relationships within the major bacterial groups represented by [[Erwinia]] and [[Corynebacterium]]. Dye worked on several committees connected with bacterial taxonomy, most notably the [[International Committee on the Systematics of Bacteria]], participating in the complete revision of bacterial names contained in the [[Approved Lists of Names of Bacteria]], and the [[Committee on Taxonomy of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria]] of the [[International Society for Plant Pathology]], which developed the [[International Standards for Naming Pathovars]]. From the late 1960s, as head of an expanding Bacteriology Section in Plant Diseases Division of DSIR, he maintained a day-to-day interest in wide-ranging studies of his staff. Dye's personal culture collection, begun in 1951, evolved into today's [[International Collection of Micro-organisms from Plants|ICMP culture collection]] held at [[Landcare Research]], Tamaki. He retired in December 1983, and was made an Honorary Member of the [[New Zealand Microbiological Society]] the following year. The [[proteobacteria]] genus ''[[Dyella]]'' was named after him. The collection and bacteriology laboratory suite at Landcare in Tamaki was named after him in 2004. He attended the naming ceremony. ==References== *[http://www.nzms.org.nz/Honourary_Members/Dye.htm New Zealand Microbiological Society] {{DEFAULTSORT:Dye, Doug}} [[Category:New Zealand microbiologists]] [[Category:Phytopathologists]] [[Category:1921 births]] [[Category:2005 deaths]]