title: An ideal job.
abstract: A brief personal history illustrates how fortunate I was to have stumbled into a career in plant pathology, which turned out to be the ideal job for me. Several of the people who steered me or facilitated my development in research on plant diseases are mentioned. Starting with my PhD research, I have had the good fortune to indulge a career-long fascination with epidemiology and genetics of disease resistance in plants, particularly coevolution of gene-for-gene host-pathogen systems. I hope that my example may inspire others of like minds to consider a research career in plant pathology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA. kurtl@umn.edu
authors.forename: Kurt J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Leonard
mesh_terms: D060467:Disease Resistance; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000266:history; D061066:Plant Pathology / Q000266:history*; D012106:Research / Q000266:history; D014481:United States