- Co-described Agrobacterium tumefaciens, together with Erwin Frink Smith,[1] for whom he worked as an assistant
- Probably born 1963 but no clear statement as to when he died.
- Photo of some Charles O. Townsend - perhaps in his fifties - from "between 1905 and 1945"
- Book The beet-sugar industry in the United States in 1920, edited by some Charles O. Townsend, Pathologist in Charge of Sugar Beet Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
- Book Methods of reducing the cost of producing beet sugar (1907)
- at Wikispecies
References
- ^ Smith, E. F.; Townsend, C. O. (1907). "A Plant-Tumor of Bacterial Origin". Science. 25 (643): 671–673. doi:10.1126/science.25.643.671. PMID 17746161.