Peter Henry Rolfs (1865 to 1944) was a prominent Florida agronomist in the early twentieth century. He directed the Florida Agriculture Experiment Station from 1905 to 1920, and from 1915 to 1920 he also served as Dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of Florida. Rolfs then moved to Brazil to found the Escola Superior de Agricultura e Veterinária in Viçosa, Minas Gerais, later renamed the Universidade Federal de Viçosa. In 1892 he was the first to describe the common plant disease Southern Blight, caused by a sterile fungus first named in 1911 as Sclerotium rolfsii and now named Agroathelia rolfsii in honor of his research.
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