Who among the following is known as Father of plant pathology?

🔑 Key Points
Anton de Bary
→ Anton de Bary, a German botanist who did research on the roles of fungi and other agents in causing plant diseases earned him distinction as a founder of modern mycology and plant pathology.
→ He founded the developmental biology of fungi and identified the sequence of sexual and asexual stages and their fructified organs.

📌 Important Points
→ Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Contributions:
Acknowledged as the father of microbiology.
Discovered both protists and bacteria.

→ Louis Pasteur
Contributions:
Best known for inventing the process of pasteurization.
Kills microbes and prevents spoilage in beer, milk, and other goods.

→ Aristotle
Contributions:
Called the Father of Biology.
His work describes five major biological processes: metabolism, temperature regulation, inheritance, information processing, and embryogenesis.

→ Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Contributions:
Considered the founder of modern chemistry.
Discovered that mass is conserved in a chemical reaction.