Christine Marie Berkhout

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Christine Marie Berkhout (1893–1932) was a mycologist. She described the genus Candida in her doctoral thesis for the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands in 1923. This event was later described as marking "the beginning of the rational systematics of the anascosporogenous yeasts" [1].

The standard author abbreviation Berkh. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ James A. Barnett (2004). A history of research on yeasts 8: taxonomy.. Yeast 21: 1141–1193. doi:10.1002/yea.1154. 
  2. ^ Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4. 


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