Doug Dye
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'''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]
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[[Category:New Zealand microbiologists]]
[[Category:Phytopathologists]]
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