Lawrence Ogilvie
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Lawrence Ogilvie
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Lawrence Ogilvie was a Scottish plant pathologist who pioneered the study of wheat, fruit and vegetable diseases in the 20th century. From 1923, in his first job and aged only 25, when agriculture was Bermuda's major industry, Ogilvie identified the virus that had devastated the islands' high-value lily bulb crops in 204 bulb fields for 30 years. By introducing agricultural controls, he re-established the valuable export shipments to the US, increasing them to seven-fold the volume of earlier "v
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Scottish plant pathologist (1898–1980)
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