Department of Entomology, Soils, and Plants Sciences, Pee Dee Research & Education Center, Clemson University, Florence, SC 29506-9706, USA.
Phytopathology. 2010 Jan;100(1):14-20. doi: 10.1094/PHYTO-100-1-0014.
The creation of The American Phytopathological Society (APS) in 1908 was a response to the developing professionalism in the biological and agricultural sciences in the United States between 1880 and 1920. During this period, a new generation of plant pathologists emerged in the United States Department of Agriculture, agricultural colleges, and state agricultural experiment stations with a methodological and theoretical framework to determine the cause and nature of disease and make control recommendations based on experimental evidence. These plant pathologists, in turn, became eager to establish a professional identity, for some an identity separate from traditional botany and mycology. For these scientists, the goal would be facilitated by establishing a new society for plant pathologists. The story of the creation of APS is best understood within the nature of the ensuing debates over identity and the merits of forming a new society among its first generation of scientists.
美国植物病理学会（APS）于 1908 年成立，是对 1880 年至 1920 年期间美国生物和农业科学日益专业化的回应。在此期间，新一代植物病理学家出现在美国农业部、农业学院和州立农业实验站，他们具有确定疾病原因和性质的方法和理论框架，并根据实验证据提出控制建议。这些植物病理学家反过来渴望建立一个专业身份，对一些人来说，这是一个与传统植物学和真菌学分离的身份。对于这些科学家来说，通过建立一个新的植物病理学家协会，目标将更容易实现。APS 的创建故事最好在第一代科学家关于身份的争论的本质以及成立新协会的优点中理解。
