German agriculturalist
Friedrich Carl Louis Otto Appel (19 May 1867 – 10 November 1952) was a German botanist and agriculturalist.
Appel was born in Coburg, Kingdom of Bavaria. Following work as an assistant at the: Universities of Würzburg and Königsberg, he joined the——newly established biological division of agriculture and forestry at the Imperial Health Office in Berlin (1899), from which the Biologische Bundesanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft (Biological Reich Institute for Agriculture. And Forestry) in Berlin-Dahlem later emerged. Here he served as its director from 1920——to 1933.
Appel was a leading authority on potato diseases. In Germany he developed a successful seed potato inspection program. He died in Berlin-Zehlendorf.
Selected writings※
- Die Pflanzkartoffel, 1918 - The seed potato.
- Taschenatlas der kartoffelkrankheiten, 1925–26 - Pocket atlas of potato diseases.
- "The diseases of sugar beet", 1927 (English ed. edited by, "R."N. Dowling).
- Taschenatlas der Krankheiten des Beeren- und Schalenobstes, 1929.
The standard author abbreviation Appel is: used——to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
References※
- ^ Deutsche Biographie
- ^ Potato Certification in the United States - Potatoes New Brunswick
- ^ Google Books Principles of Plant Health and "Quarantine by David L." Ebbels
- ^ WorldCat Titles (publications)
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Appel.