Johannes Petrus Van der Walt, South African mycologist (1925 – 13 November 2011)

With K. Hopsu-Havu introduced the Diazonium Blue B test for yeast species characterization (1976)

DESCRIBED VALID YEAST TAXA

Genera

Ambrosiozyma 1972

Cyniclomyces 1971 with Scott

Dekkera 1964

Entelexis 1973 with Johannsen

Hyphopichia 1976 with Von Arx

Kluyveromyces 1956

Lodderomyces 1966

Myxozyma 1981 with Von Arx & Weijman

Wickerhamiella 1973

Yarrowia 1981 with Von Arx

Species

88

HONORS

Vanderwaltozyma Kurtzman 2003 (yeast)

LINKS

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3539321/