Orazio Comes
1848–1917
Italian botanist. Studied natural sciences at Naples, graduating with a thesis on pollination and heterogamy. Assistant to the professor of botany in the school of agriculture at Portici; professor, 1880. Later worked on plant pathology and physiology, and on mycological taxonomy, and discovered the fungal aetiology of many plant diseases.
Source
DBI
Bibliography
DBI: Dizionario biografico degli Italiani. Edited by Alberto M. Ghisalberti et al. 100 vols. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. 1960–2020.
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