Name of the Botanist Scientist: Agostino Bassi
Category of Research: Entomologist
Born: 1773
Died: 1856
Contributions:He discovered that the muscardine disease of silkworms was caused by a living, very small, parasitic organism, a fungus that would be named eventually Beauveria bassiana in his honor.
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