Herbert G. Baker

Herbert G. Baker
Born(1920-02-23)February 23, 1920
Brighton, England
DiedJuly 1, 2001(2001-07-01) (aged 81)
Oakland, California
NationalityBritish
American
Alma materUniversity of London (BSc, PhD)
Known for
Spouse
Irene Baker
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(m. 1945; died 1989)​
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
Genetics
Ecology
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Herbert George Baker (February 23, 1920 – July 2, 2001) was a British-American botanist and evolutionary ecologist who was an authority on pollination biology and breeding systems of angiosperms.[1] He described what became known as "Baker's rule," a theoretical proposal underpinning an empirical observation that the ability to self-fertilize improves colonization ability among plants by increasing the probability of successful establishment after long-distance dispersal.[2] He collaborated with his wife, Irene Baker, studying the content and function of nectar, and undertaking research and publishing papers on its evolutionary and taxonomic significance.[3][4][5][6]

  1. ^ Barrett, Spencer C. H. (November 2001). "The Baker and Stebbins era comes to a close". Evolution. 55 (11): 2371–2374. doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2001.tb00752.x.
  2. ^ Pannell, John R. (2015). "The scope of Baker's law". New Phytologist. 208: 656–667. doi:10.1111/nph.13539.
  3. ^ Kevan, P. G. (2003-05-01). "The modern science of ambrosiology: in honour of Herbert and Irene Baker". Plant Systematics and Evolution. 238 (1–4): 1–5. doi:10.1007/S00606-003-0271-Z.
  4. ^ Herbert G. Baker; Irene Baker (1990). "THE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF NECTAR CHEMISTRY TO THE RECOGNITION OF POLLINATOR TYPES". Israel Journal of Plant Sciences. 39 (1–2): 157–177. ISSN 0792-9978. Wikidata Q108671338.
  5. ^ Stephen H Bullock; Ricardo Ayala; Irene Baker; Herbert G Baker (1987). "REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY OF THE TREE IPOMOEA WOLCOTTIANA (CONVOLVULACEAE)". Madroño. 34 (4): 304–314. ISSN 0024-9637. JSTOR 41424651. Wikidata Q93962248.
  6. ^ James H Hunt; Irene Baker; Herbert G Baker (1 November 1982). "Similarity of Amino Acids in Nectar and Larval Saliva: The Nutritional Basis for Trophallaxis in Social Wasps". Evolution. 36 (6): 1318–1322. doi:10.1111/J.1558-5646.1982.TB05501.X. ISSN 0014-3820. JSTOR 2408164. PMID 28563573. Wikidata Q44658429.