Jan Ritzema Bos
Jan Ritzema Bos was a Dutch plant pathologist and first director of the Willie Commelin Scholten Foundation and founder of the Plant Protection Service in 1899 in Amsterdam. He carried out applicationoriented research and was nominated as Director of the newly founded Institute of Phytopathology at Wageningen. Here RitzemaBos continued with the Plant Protection Service, the Netherlands Society of Plant Pathology and the Tijdschrift over Plantenziekten which later became The Netherlands Journal of Plant Pathology and in 1994 was continued as the European Journal of Plant Pathology, published under the aegis of the European Foundation for Plant Pathology. He was succeeded by Johanna Westerdijk as the new director of the WCSLaboratory in 1906.
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