Joan Dingley (1916 to 2008) was one of the pioneer women of New Zealand science. Born in Parnell, Auckland, she studied science at Auckland University College and graduated with an MSc in 1941, with a thesis on ferns. She worked for the DSIR Plant Diseases Division from 1941 to 1976, becoming head of mycology, and was a major research scientist in New Zealand for laboratory and field-based plant pathology and for taxonomic mycology. Her research interests lay with the taxonomy of ascomycetes, especially the Hypocreales, and about 30 species of fungi carry dingleyae as their species name. She wrote Records of plant diseases in New Zealand, published in 1969, and developed the New Zealand Fungal Herbarium from 4,000 specimens to 35,000 by the time she retired.
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