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5 unusual facts about Bureau of Plant Industry


Benjamin Minge Duggar

As a specialist in botany, he held various positions in experiment stations and colleges until 1901, when he was appointed physiologist in the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, for which he wrote bulletins.

Cornelius Herman Muller

During World War II, he worked for the Bureau of Plant Industry on the Special Guayule Research Project on a series of experiments on root development.

History of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System

At the time, Knapp was overseeing Farmers Cooperative Demonstration Work nationally through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Plant Industry.

Rolla Kent Beattie

Beattie went on to work for the Federal Horticultural Board, the Bureau of Plant Industry at the United States Department of Agriculture, during which he was involved in the development of plant inspection procedures.

Sidney Fay Blake

The same year he received his PhD, he started his botanical career at the Bureau of Plant Industry for the United States Department of Agriculture, and worked there till he died in 1959.


San Andres railway station

Further away from the station are the Br. Andrew Gonzalez Hall of De La Salle University, the Bureau of Plant Industry, Ermita, Puregold(Osmena Highway) and the Manila Zoological and Botanical Garden.


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