Alessandro Trotter
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Alessandro Trotter was an Italian
botanist and entomologist who pioneered in cecidology, the study of plant galls
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Alessandro Trotter was the son-in-law of Pier Andrea Saccardo
(1845-1920).
His first work on cecidology dated back to 1897 (when he was 21 yrs old) and he reported 124 galls of which 21 were caused by eriophyid mites. Trotter travelled around Italy between 1899 and 1909 and described 742 galls in 20 papers. At the age of 28 he founded a journal called Marcella in honour of Marcello Malphigi which dealt with cecidology.
He later became professor of plant pathology at the University of Naples and wrote more than 400 publications with nearly 110 on plant galls. He described several new species of Cynipidae and Cecidomyiidae
some with Jean-Jacques Kieffer
.
Italy
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botanist and entomologist who pioneered in cecidology, the study of plant galls
Gall
Galls or cecidia are outgrowths on the surface of lifeforms caused by invasion by other lifeforms, such as parasites or bacterial infection. Plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues and can be caused by various parasites, from fungi and bacteria, to insects and mites...
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Alessandro Trotter was the son-in-law of Pier Andrea Saccardo
Pier Andrea Saccardo
Pier Andrea Saccardo was an Italian botanist and mycologist.- Life :...
(1845-1920).
His first work on cecidology dated back to 1897 (when he was 21 yrs old) and he reported 124 galls of which 21 were caused by eriophyid mites. Trotter travelled around Italy between 1899 and 1909 and described 742 galls in 20 papers. At the age of 28 he founded a journal called Marcella in honour of Marcello Malphigi which dealt with cecidology.
He later became professor of plant pathology at the University of Naples and wrote more than 400 publications with nearly 110 on plant galls. He described several new species of Cynipidae and Cecidomyiidae
Cecidomyiidae
Cecidomyiidae is a family of flies known as gall midges or gall gnats. As the name implies, the larvae of most gall midges feed within plant tissue, creating abnormal plant growths called galls.These are very fragile small insects usually only 2–3 mm in length and many are less than...
some with Jean-Jacques Kieffer
Jean-Jacques Kieffer
Jean-Jacques Kieffer was a French naturalist and entomologist who specialised in the study of parasitic insects. Educated as a priest, Kieffer taught natural science in Bitche, Lorraine while working on the description and classification of insects...
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Works
Partial List- Flora Italica Cryptogamica. Pars I: Fungi. Fasc. IV. Uredinales (Genera: Uromyces et Puccinia). 144 pp. (1908).
- Sylloge Fungorum 23: i-xxxii, 1026 pp (1925).
- Sylloge Fungorum 24 (1): 1-703 (1926).
- Sylloge Fungorum 24 (2): 704-1438 (1928).