James Waller obituary

My friend and former colleague Jim Waller, who has died of pulmonary fibrosis aged 86, was a plant pathologist with particular interest in and a profound experience of the diseases affecting tropical crops.He used this knowledge, as well as his many contacts in agricultural research institutes and UN agencies, to establish a plant pathology liaison unit in 1971 at the Commonwealth Mycological Institute (CMI) in Kew, west London. It was then part of the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, funded b