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)