立志农业生产 献身科教事业——记我国著名植物病理学家韦石泉教授

Professor Wei Shiquan,A Scientist Who Aspires to Agricultural Accomplishment and Dedicates Himself to Science and Education

韦石泉（1922~2007）,江苏江宁人,著名植物病理学家,农业教育家。韦石泉教授深谙植物病毒学,博古通今,对植物保护学科的发展有着新颖的思想和不断的实践。早年曾开展真菌病害生理研究2,0世纪60年代起专攻植物病毒病害的科研和教学工作,对赤豆花叶病毒、大豆的环斑病毒、白菜芜菁花叶病毒及一些果树病毒及病害,进行了较系统的深入研究,在病毒提纯、血清学技术、病毒株系划分以及品种抗病性鉴定等方面做出了突出贡献,对植物病毒学学科建设和人才培养付出了极大的努力,贡献颇多。韦石泉教授献身于植物病理学教育事业,在40多年的教学生涯中,他在学术水平上有很深的造诣,在学术道德上有很高的修养,他注重教学、科研和生产实践的结合,理论密切联系实际。

Professor Wei shiquan is a famous plant pathologist and agricultural educationist in our country. Mr. Wei is highly skilled in plant virology, erudite in history and now, and has advanced many innovative ideas and had successful practices as to the discipline development of plant virology. In his early years Mr. Wei made some research on the physiology of plant fungal diseases and in the 1960s he began to specialize in and teach plant virology. Mr. Wei has made a lot of systematic and deep researches on the rdzuki-bean mosaic virus, the ringspot virus of soybean, the turnip mosaic virus of Chinese cabbages and some fruit tree viruses and diseases. He has made outstanding contributions to the virus purification, serological techniques, virus strain division and resistant identification of varieties, etc. Also, Professor Wei made great efforts and contributions to the discipline building of plant virology and personnel training. In his more than forty years of being dedicated to the plant pathology education, Mr. Wei has always paid much attention to the combination of scientific research with production practice and that of theory with reality. As a famous professor and scientist, Mr. Wei is not only of great academic attainments but heartedly respected for his noble academic morality.