David Fairchild
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David Fairchild's Degrees
- PhD Plant Physiology Johns Hopkins University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Grandison Fairchild was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United States, including soybeans, pistachios, mangos, nectarines, dates, bamboos, and flowering cherries. Certain varieties of wheat, cotton, and rice became especially economically important.
David Fairchild's Published Works
Published Works
- Exploring for plants (1931) (22)
- Sweet-Potato Black Rot (Ceratocystis fimbriata, Ell. & Hals.) (1891) (22)
- THE FASCINATION OF MAKING A PLANT HYBRIDBeing a Detailed Account of the Hybridization of Actinidia arguta and Actinidia chinensis (1927) (19)
- THE DISCOVERY OF THE CHESTNUT BARK DISEASE IN CHINA. (1913) (13)
- Notes of Travel. I (1899) (11)
- THE MANGOSTEEN “Queen of Fruits” Now Almost Confined to Malayan Archipelago, But Can Be Acclimated in Many Parts of Tropics—Experiments in America—Desirability of Widespread Cultivation (1915) (10)
- Systematic plant introduction : its purposes and methods (7)
- Two Expeditions after Living Plants (1928) (6)
- CATS AS PLANT INVESTIGATORS. (1906) (5)
- A GENETIC PORTRAIT CHARTAccording to Sir Francis Galton In Which the Size of Each Likeness Shows the Proportion Which Each Ancestor Plays in the Children's Inheritance (1921) (4)
- Notes on the Copulation of Bombus Fervidus (4)
- ROXBURGH'S GIANT FIG IN TENERIFFE (1927) (4)
- THE TOMATO TERRACES OF BAÑALBUFARAn Agricultural Monopoly Built on a Single Variety of Tomato (1927) (4)
- AN AMERICAN RESEARCH INSTITUTION IN PALESTINE. THE JEWISH AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION AT HAIFA. (1910) (3)
- BARRO COLORADO ISLAND LABORATORY In the Rain Forest Jungle of Panama, on an Island in Gatun Lake, Conducted by the Institute for Research in Tropical America (1924) (3)
- Personal Recollections Of George B. Cellon, Horticultural Pioneer Of South Florida (1946) (3)
- The chaulmoogra tree and some related species (3)
- THE CRISIS AT BUITENZORG. (1934) (3)
- DR. RIDLEY OF SINGAPORE AND THE BEGINNINGS OF THE RUBBER INDUSTRY (1928) (2)
- The Mango Relatives of Cochin Chine; Those With Five-Stamen Flowers (1949) (2)
- TWINSTheir Importance as Furnishing Evidence of the Limitations of Environment (1919) (2)
- AWARD OF MEYER MEDAL TO P. H. DORSETT (1936) (2)
- THE GRAFTED JUJUBE OF CHINA: A Decidous Hardy Fruit Tree That Flowers So Late in the Spring That Its Blooms Are Never Caught by the Frost (2)
- TO BRAZIL FOR NEW PLANTSExpedition Sent to Unexplored Country Promises to Obtain Many Things of Interest to American Plant Breeders—Problem of the Navel Orange of Bahia (1913) (2)
- A JUNGLE BOTANIC GARDENThe Sibolangit Garden in the Highlands of Sumatra (1928) (2)
- Branch Knot of the Hackberry (1889) (2)
- Diseases of the Grape in Western New York (1891) (2)
- TESTING NEW FOODS1 (2)
- Plant and Animal Introduction (2)
- THE BARBOUR LATHROP BAMBOO GROVE (1919) (1)
- The Sensitive Plant as a Weed in the Tropics (1902) (1)
- A Date-Leaf Boat of Arabia (1902) (1)
- New Plants for BreedersAgriculture of the Future Will Show Marked Changes, as Result of Work of Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction (1913) (1)
- GARDENS FOR PLANT BREEDERSRequirements Necessary for Encouragement of Plant Breeding Heretofore Misunderstood—Environment Usually Not Suitable for Really Constructive Work—Breeder Should be in Close Touch with His Plants (1918) (1)
- GUY N. COLLINS, PLANT EXPLORER AND GENETICISTAugust 9, 1872—August 14, 1938 (1938) (1)
- THE CHINESE PETSAI AS A SALAD VEGETABLE (1918) (1)
- THE SOLEDAD GARDEN AND ARBORETUMThe Harvard Biological Institute in Cuba (Atkins Foundation) on Soledad Estate (1924) (1)
- The Journal of Heredity During the War (1917) (1)
- FIRST “BAD HABIT”—SUCKING ITS THUMB (1919) (1)
- Some observations on the cherimoyas of Colombia and Guatemala. (1944) (1)
- Experiments with udo, the new Japanese vegetable / (0)
- The Heteroecismal Puccinioe (0)
- Notes of Travel. VI (1901) (0)
- SEXUALITY IN A SEA WEED (1930) (0)
- ROSA HUGONIS A New Hardy, Yellow Rose from China (1915) (0)
- PLANT LIFE OF THE PACIFIC (1946) (0)
- THE ANNUAL CATALOGUE OF PLANT IMMIGRANTSMany Additions to Our Food Plants are Being Made by Office of Seed and Plant Introduction—To be Available Gratis to all Serious Experimenters Who File Application (1917) (0)
- Record Unit 7286 David Fairchild Journal, 1896-1897 (0)
- The Treub Foundation of Buitenzorg, Java (1937) (0)
- Cultivation of wheat in permanent alfalfa fields (0)
- VISIBLE RECORDS OF HEREDITYLack of Photographs of New Hybrid Forms an Irreparable Loss to the World (1921) (0)
- Study of Montana Erysipheoe (1889) (0)
- THE KAFIR ORGANGEAn Edible Member of the Strychnine-Producing Genus Which Succeeds in the United States—Numerous Relatives Also Promising for Tests by Plant Breeders (1913) (0)
- THE PINK FLESHED PUMMELO OF JAVA (1927) (0)
- Report of the Committee on Animal and Plant Introduction (0)
- Experiments in the Treatment of Plant Diseases. Part I. Treatment of Black Rot of Grapes (1891) (0)
- The palate of civilized man and its influence on agriculture (1918) (0)
- A Plea to Make the Smithsonian Institution a National Institute of Research (1906) (0)
- LEAF BUDS OF THE WORMIA TREE (1927) (0)
- Report of the Committee on Plant and Animal IntroductionPermanent Collections of Plants and Animals for Breeding Purposes (0)
- ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELLSOME CHARACTERS OF HIS GREATNESS (1922) (0)
- The wilt disease of tobacco and its control (0)
- Notes of Travel. VII. A Tropical Forest in Ceram (1901) (0)
- Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Marian Bell Fairchild, July 25, 1906 (0)
- Experiments in the Treatment of Plant Diseases. Part II. Treatment of Pear Leaf-Blight and Scab in the Orchard (1891) (0)
- Influence of Moisture upon Dehiscent Fruits (1891) (0)
- Notes of Travel. IX. A Precocious Poplar Branch (1902) (0)
- An American Bamboo Grove Open to Investigators (1921) (0)
- ADVERTISING NEW PLANT FOODSWar Conditions Make Evident Necessity of Forming Food Habits of People Along Right Lines—This Work Should be Especially Directed by Department of Agriculture—Incessant Hammering of Modern Advertising Has Created a Vast Market For Many Commerical Products. (1918) (0)
- PRESENT CONDITION AND OPPORTUNITY OF THE AMERICAN GENETIC ASSOCIATION (1919) (0)
- POPULARIZING THE DASHEEN (0)
- GEORGE KENNAN The Inborn and Acquired Characteristics Which Made Him a Great Explorer of the Russian People (1924) (0)
- Three new plant introductions from Japan. By David G. Fairchild ... (0)
- Notes of Travel. VIII (1902) (0)
- Cats as Plant Investigators (1906) (0)
- REPRODUCTION IN HIBISCUS (1913) (0)
- Experiments with Fungicides to Prevent Leaf-Blight of Nursery Stock (1894) (0)
- Notes of Travel. II (1899) (0)
- Travels of an Economic Botanist@@@Exploring for Plants (1932) (0)
- A PLEA TO MAKE THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUITION A NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH. (1906) (0)
- GARDEN FOR THE PROPAGATION OF TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL PLANTS. (1923) (0)
- Book of monsters, by David and Marian Fairchild. Portraits and biographies of a few of the inhabitiants of woodland and meadow. (0)
- FOREIGN PLANT INTRODUCTION MEDAL Memorial to the late Frank N. Meyer presented to Mr. Barbour Lathrop “for distinguished service in the field of Foreign Plant Introduction” (1920) (0)
- AN AMERICAN BAMBOO GROVE OPEN TO INVESTIGATORS. (0)
- Notes of Travel. III. (1900) (0)
- Notes of Travel. IV (1901) (0)
- Grass demonstrations in the South (0)
- THE TESTING OF A NEW TREE CROP FOR HARDINESS (1918) (0)
- THE DRAMATIC CAREERS OF TWO PLANTSMEN (1919) (0)
- DO WE WANT A GREAT PRIVATE INSTITUTION FOR INVENTORS LIKE THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE FOR ARTISTS? (1918) (0)
- GREEN LEAF IN CHERRY BLOSSOM (1915) (0)
- The Tropical Laboratory (1899) (0)
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