Ross Beever

Ross Ewen Beever
Born	(1946-01-03)3 January 1946 Te Kūiti, New Zealand
Died	3 June 2010(2010-06-03) (aged 64) Auckland, New Zealand
Alma mater	University of Auckland University of Leeds
Scientific career
Theses	Growth of fungi on potato extract media  (1968) Genetic and biochemical studies of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in Neurospora crassa. (1972)

Ross Ewen Beever (3 January 1946 – 3 June 2010) was a New Zealand geneticist and mycologist.

Academic career

Born in Te Kūiti, Beever completed a MSc at Auckland University with a thesis Growth of fungi on potato extract media and a PhD at Leeds entitled Genetic and biochemical studies of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in Neurospora crassa.

On his return to New Zealand he worked for DSIR and later Landcare Research, principally on Botrytis cinerea and other important plant diseases including Phytoplasma australiense, responsible for cabbage tree mortality, and Phytophthora species responsible for Kauri dieback.[1][2][3]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2004.[4]

Beever died in Auckland in 2010.[5] The Ross Beever Memorial Mycological Award was established by the New Zealand Mycological Society in 2014.[6] Fungus taxa named in his honour include the species Colletotrichum beeveri[7] and Cortinarius beeverorum,[8] and the genus Rossbeevera.[9]

References

1. "Obituaries | Dr Ross Ewen Beever MSc (Auckland), PhD (Leeds), FRSNZ, FNZIAHS, FAPPS | 3 January 1946 – 3 June 2010" (PDF). New Zealand Garden Journal (Journal of the RNZIH). 13 (2): 28–30. 28 August 2011 [December 2010]. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
2. "Ross Ewen Beever « Obituaries « Fellowship « The Academy « Our Organisation « Royal Society of New Zealand". royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
3. New Zealand Journal of Botany 48(3–4): 139–151 (2010).
4. "Dr Ross E Beever". Australasian Plant Pathology. 40 (3): 309–314. 2011. doi:10.1007/s13313-011-0032-3. S2CID 8636454.
5. Pickmere, Arnold (19 June 2010). "Employing science to rescue plants". New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
6. "Ross Beever Memorial Mycological Award (RBMMA)". Fungal Network of New Zealand. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
7. Damm, U.; Cannon, P.F.; Woudenberg, J.H.C.; Johnston, P.R.; Weir, B.S.; Tan, Y.P.; Shivas, R.G.; Crous, P.W. (2012). "The Colletotrichum boninense species complex". Studies in Mycology. 73 (1): 1–26. doi:10.3114/sim0002. PMC 3458415. PMID 23136457.
8. Orlovich, D.A; Wang, X.Y; Lebel, T. (2014). "Cortinarius beeverorum, a new species of sequestrate Cortinarius from New Zealand". Mycological Progress. 13 (3): 915–921. doi:10.1007/s11557-014-0977-z. S2CID 14326543.
9. Lebel, T.; Orihara, T.; Maekawa, N. (2011). "Erratum to: The sequestrate genus Rossbeevera T.Lebel & Orihara gen. nov. (Boletaceae) from Australasia and Japan: new species and new combinations". Fungal Diversity. 52 (1): 73. doi:10.1007/s13225-011-0118-9.