After earning Ph.D. in botany from University of North Carolina, Alma Whiffen Barksdale (1916-1981) worked as a mycologist at The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she discovered cycloheximide, an anti-fungal agent widely used on golf courses and cherry orchards. She later worked as a senior botanist at the New York Botanical Garden, 1952-1975

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