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Barbara Pickersgill

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#4107

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#6172

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Botany

#333

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#1109

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Barbara Pickersgill's Degrees

Bachelors Botany University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Barbara Pickersgill is a British botanist with a special interest in the domestication of crops, the genetics, taxonomy, and evolutionary biology of cultivated plants, and the preservation of crop diversity. Her 1966 dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Indiana University concerned the taxonomy of Capsicum chinense. Her doctoral advisor was Charles B. Heiser.

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Barbara Pickersgill's Published Works

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Genetic resources and breeding of Capsicum spp. (1997) (330)
Domestication of Plants in the Americas: Insights from Mendelian and Molecular Genetics (2007) (281)
Domestication patterns in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and the origin of the Mesoamerican and Andean cultivated races (2005) (228)
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN WEEDY AND CULTIVATED FORMS IN SOME SPECIES OF CHILI PEPPERS (GENUS CAPSICUM) (1971) (223)
The Use of Plant Genetic Resources. (1991) (178)
Farmers' Bounty: Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World (2005) (150)
Cytogenetics and evolution of Capsicum L. (1991) (113)
Unilateral incompatibility in Capsicum (Solanaceae): occurrence and taxonomic distribution. (2004) (97)
Genetic Diversity of Cultivated Tropical Plants (2006) (91)
The Archaeological Record of Chili Peppers (Capsicum spp.) and the Sequence of Plant Domestication in Peru (1969) (90)
Ethnobotany and domestication in Xoconochtli,Stenocereus stellatus (Cactaceae), in the Tehuacán Valley and La Mixteca Baja, México (1997) (84)
The genus Capsicum: a multidisciplinary approach to the taxonomy of cultivated and wild plants (1988) (74)
Origins and Distribution of Plants Domesticated in the New World Tropics (1977) (67)
Phylogeographic analysis of the chloroplast DNA variation in wild common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in the Americas (2007) (63)
NAMES FOR THE CULTIVATED CAPSICUM SPECIES (SOLANACEAE) (1969) (57)
Isozyme variation and species relationships in peanut and its wild relatives (Arachis L. — Leguminosae) (2004) (53)
On the Quality of Evidence for Origin and Dispersal of Cultivated Plants [and Comments and Reply] (1973) (52)
Taxonomy and the origin and evolution of cultivated plants in the New World (1977) (48)
Biosystematics of crop-weed complexes (1981) (33)
Preclassic lowland maize from Cuello, Belize (1981) (33)
Exploitation of wild relatives of the food legumes (1988) (32)
Parallel vs. Convergent Evolution in Domestication and Diversification of Crops in the Americas (2018) (30)
Chromosomal structural changes in Capsicum annuum L. and C. chinense Jacq. (2004) (30)
Wild Cotton in Northeast Brazil (1975) (28)
Advances in Legume Systematics 8. Legumes of Economic Importance (1999) (26)
A classification of the clones of East African Highland bananas (Musa) found in Uganda (1999) (26)
The domestication of chili peppers. (1969) (23)
Cytogenetics and evolutionary change under domestication (1976) (21)
Stigma morphology and pollination in Arachis L. (Leguminosae). (1990) (21)
Cultivated Plants as Evidence for Cultural Contacts (1972) (20)
Interspecific hybridization by sexual means (1993) (20)
Cytological and genetical evidence on the domestication and diffusion of crops within the Americas. (1989) (19)
Barriers to Interspecific Hybridisation between Vicia Faba and other Species of Section Faba (1984) (15)
Domestication of plants revisited - Darwin to the present day. (2009) (14)
Peppers and chillies (2003) (14)
Cytology of two species of winged bean, Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC. and P. scandens (Endl.) Verdc. (Leguminosae). (1980) (13)
A study of selected isozymes in Capsicum baccatum, Capsicum eximium, Capsicum cardenasii and two interspecific F1 hybrids in Capsicum species. (2000) (13)
Plants and Man on the Seychelles Coast: A Study in Historical Biogeography. (1967) (10)
Domestication of Plants in Mesoamerica: An Archaeological Review with Some Ethnobotanical Interpretations (2016) (10)
Interspecific Hybridisation in Vicia Section Faba: Comparison of Selfed and Hybrid Embryo and Endosperm (1984) (10)
Chile Peppers (Capsicum spp.) (2016) (8)
Cultivated Plants and the Kon-Tiki Theory (1969) (7)
Multiple domestications and their taxonomic consequences: the example of Phaseolus vulgaris (2003) (5)
Multivariate analyses of supposedly duplicate accessions of East African Highland bananas in germplasm collections in Uganda. (2000) (4)
Sesame: The Genus Sesamum. Medicinal and Aromatic Plants – Industrial Profiles . Edited by D. Bedigian. Boca Raton, Fl, USA: CRC Press (2011), pp. xxiii + 532, £82.00. ISBN 978-0-8493-3538-9. (2011) (4)
The Society for Economic Botany Professor Daniel Zohary 2003 Distinguished Economic Botanist (2008) (4)
Some Current Topics in Plant Domestication: An Overview with Particular Reference to Amazonia (2013) (3)
Crop Domestication in the Andes and Lowland South America (2004) (2)
DOMESTICATION AND ITS TAXONOMIC CONSEQUENCES (1986) (2)
Evolutionary Studies in World Crops: Diversity and Change in the Indian Subcontinent . Ed. Sir Joseph Hutchinson. Cambridge University Press: London and New York (1974), pp. 183, £3.80 (1976) (2)
Monogenic Segregations in Backcross Progenies of Capsicum baccatumx Two Interspecific F1 Hybrids and Some Possible Explanations for Distorted Segregation Ratios in Capsicum (2000) (2)
Guide to Cultivated Plants . By T. Elzebroek and K. Wind. Wallingford, UK: CAB International (2008), pp. 540, £95.00. ISBN 978-1-84593-356-2. (2009) (1)
In situ conservation of diversity within field crops: is this necessary and/or feasible? (2000) (1)
Segregation of morphological and isozyme markers in a cross of Capsicum baccatum and Capsicum cardenasii (2004) (1)
Evolutionary Biology, Vol. 24. (1968) (1)
Cases of past cytoplasmic introgression and introgression of nuclear genes in common bean (2002) (1)
Review of Grass evolution and domestication, by GP Chapman and Flora Europaea vol. 1, by TG Tutin, NA Burgess, AO Chater, JR Edmondson, VH Heywood, DM Moore, DH Valentine, SM Walters, DA Webb (1994) (1)
Travels with Charley—sunflowers and beyond: an appreciation of the life and work of Charles B. Heiser, Jr. (1920-2010) (2010) (1)
The common bean has been part of the Great American Biotic Interchange : Evidence from the study of cpDNA and implications for conservation and breeding (2007) (0)
Crops and Cultures in the Pacific: New Data and New Techniques for the Investigation of Old Questions (2004) (0)
The Living Fields: Our Agricultural Heritage. By J. R. Harlan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1998), pp. 271, paperback £11.95. ISBN 0-521-64992-7. (2000) (0)
THE BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY, JOHN BRADBY BLAKE AND THEIR INTERESTS IN SPICES, COTTON AND TEA (2017) (0)
International Germplasm Transfer: Past and Present, ed. R. R. Duncan. xvii+206 pp. Madison, Wisconsin: Crop Science Society of America and American Society of Agronomy (1995). $33.00 (paperback). ISBN 0 89118 540 2. (1998) (0)
Peppers to bring tears to the eyes (2000) (0)
New aspect of old subject (1975) (0)
The Paprika . By András Somos. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó (1984), pp. 302, £18.00. (1985) (0)
News & Notes (2008) (0)
Histories of Maize: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography, Domestication and Evolution of Maize. Edited by J. E. Staller, R. H. Tykot and B. F. Benz. Burlington, MA, USA: Academic Press (2006), pp. 704, £94.99. ISBN: 0-12-369364-0 (2007) (0)
Plant Genetic Resources of Ethiopia . Edited by J. M. M. Engels, J. G. Hawkes and Melaku Worede. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1991), pp. 383, £45.00. ISBN 0-521-38456-7. (1993) (0)
Book Review: Flora Europaea Volume 1: Psilotaceae to Platanaceae. (1994) (0)
Book reviews Daniel F Austin (2008) (0)
An Ecogeographic Study. African Vigna. By N. Maxted, P. Mabuza-Diamini, H. Moss, S. Padulosi, A. Jarvis and L. Guarino. Rome: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (2004), pp. 454, no price quoted. ISBN 92-9043-637-9 (2006) (0)
Plant breeding (1980) (0)
Index to Volume 64: Book Reviewers (2011) (0)

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