John Percival (botanist)

John Percival
Born(1863-04-03)3 April 1863
Carperby, Yorkshire
Died26 January 1949(1949-01-26) (aged 85)
NationalityBritish
Known forAgricultural Botany, Theoretical and Practical (1900);[1]
The Wheat Plant (1921)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
Author abbrev. (botany)Percival

John Percival FLS (1863–1949) was an English botanist and professor of agricultural botany, known for his research on the genera Triticum and Aegilops, as well as the taxonomy of wheat.[2]

  1. ^ a b "John Percival (1863–1949)". JSTOR, Global Plants.
  2. ^ Caligari, P. D. S.; Brandham, P. E., eds. (2001). Wheat Taxonomy: the legacy of John Percival, The Linnean Special Issue 3 (PDF). Academic Press.