Who among the following is known as the 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 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
Scientists and Their Contributions
🧑‍🔬 Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
→ Acknowledged as the father of microbiology.
→ Discovered both protists and bacteria.

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

🧑‍🔬 Aristotle
→ Called the Father of Biology.
→ His “Aristotle's biology” describes five major biological processes: metabolism, temperature regulation, inheritance, information processing, and embryogenesis.

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