Jesse Roy Christie

Jesse Roy Christie (1889 – 21 April 1978) was an American nematologist and plant pathologist.

Career In 1922, shortly after leaving the army, Jesse Christie joined the group of N. A. Cobb at the Office of Nematology in Washington D.C., part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Between 1923 and 1937 he published 19 papers on the nematode parasites of insects, as well as contributed to a 129-page chapter in Benjamin Goodwin Chitwood's Introduction to Nematology. While working at Woods Hole with N. A. Cobb, he also discovered the life cycle of the nematode parasite on grasshoppers Mermis subnigrescens.

In 1948, Christie moved to Sanford, Florida, where he worked together with V. G. Perry on stubby-root and sting nematode parasites on plants. He continued working on plant parasitic nematodes for the rest of his career.

Awards and acknowledgements Charter member of the American Society of Parasitologists Honorary member of the Society of Nematologists, Soil & Crop Science Society of Florida Honorary member of the Florida Nematology Forum Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association Research Award (1957) Sigma Delta Faculty award (1961)