Angie Beckwith

Angie Maria Beckwith
Nationality	American
Institutions	United States Department of Agriculture
Known for	Botany, Plant pathology

Angie Maria Beckwith was an American phytopathologist, at the primary pathology laboratory at the USDA's Bureau of Plant Industry under Erwin F. Smith and Florence Hedges during the 1920s.^[1][2][3]

In 1921, Beckwith was one of more than twenty women who worked in Smith's lab, and who were credited with studying bacterial wilt in new dry beans.^[1] Among her cohort were several notable mycologists and botanists including Charlotte Elliot, Hellie A. Brown, Edith Cash, Mary Katharine Bryan, Anna Jenkins, and Lucia McCulloch, Pearle Smith.^[1]

She was a member of the Mycological Society of America and published regularly in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club.^[4]

References

1. Harveson, Robert M.; Schwartz, Howard F.; Urrea, Carlos A.; Yontz, C. Dean (December 2015). "Baterial Wilt of Dry-Edible Beans in the Central High Plains of the U.S.: Past, Present, and Future". The American Phytopathological Society 99 (12): 1665–1677.
2. Ristaino, edited by Jean Beagle (2008). Pioneering women in plant pathology (1 ed.). St. Paul, Minn.: APS Press. ISBN 978-0890543597.
3. Bailey, Martha J. (1994). American Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary. Denver, Colorado: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 0-87436-740-9.
4. Couch, J.N. (1941). "Directory". Mycological Society of America 33 (6): 671.