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Judith K. Brown

Plant Science researcher

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ42497122 ↗
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Judith K. Brown is an American phytopathologist noted for study of viruses that affect plants. In particular geminiviruses and Whitefly involved viruses. She has a PhD from the University of Arizona and teaches there. She was an associate editor of Phytopathology for three years and in 2003 a delegate for the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers in Science Symposium in Istanbul. In 2015 she became an American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow.

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The public source identifies “Judith K. Brown” as plant Science researcher. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Judith, Brown and Plant.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Judith, Brown and Plant providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Judith K. Brown” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.