Margot Forde
Margot Bernice Forde (née Ashwin) (1935–1995, Palmerston North) was a botanist, curator, and New Zealand taxonomist.[1][2]
Margot Forde graduated from Wellington Girls’ College and Victoria University of Wellington where she studied natural history and botany.[3]
Forde researched the plant taxonomies of Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang (China), and the Caucasus. She was a leading scientist in the field of seed conservation in grazing plants.[4]
Publications
- Gardiner, S. E.; Forde, M. B.; Slack, C. R. (20 January 2012). "Grass cultivar identification by sodium dodecylsulphate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis". New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research. 29 (2): 193–206. doi:10.1080/00288233.1986.10426973.
- Aiken, Susan G.; Gardiner, Susan E.; Forde, Margot B. (October 1992). "Taxonomic implications of SDS-PAGE analyses of seed proteins in North American taxa of Festuca subgenus Festuca (Poaceae)". Biochemical Systematics and Ecology. 20 (7): 615–629. doi:10.1016/0305-1978(92)90019-A.
- Williams, A.I.; MacDonalds, I.R.; Forde, Margot Bernice (1962). "Variation of turpentine composition in five population samples of Pinus radiata". New Zealand Journal of Science (5): 486 – 495., ilus.
- Ashwin, Margot B. (1958). "Understanding plant names and their changes". Tuatara. 7 (2, December). Retrieved 6 August 2017.
Awards
- The Margot Forde Germplasm Centre at AgResearch, in Palmerston North was named in her honor.[6]
- Forde was awarded the Allan Greenstone Award for Meritorious Service to Botany and the Sesquicentennial Gold Medal for Services to Science in 1990.[4]
Sources
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Ed. by R.K. Brummitt (1992). Authors of plant names : a list of authors of scientific names of plants, with recommended standard forms of their names, including abbreviations (Reprinted ed.). London: Royal Botanic Gardens. ISBN 978-0-947643-44-7.
- Zander (1984). Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen (13., neubearbeitete und erw. Aufl. ed.). Stuttgart: E. Ulmer. ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.
References
- ↑ "Ashwin, Margot Bernice". Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries.
- ↑ Aiken, Susan; Gardiner, Susan; Forde, Margot. "Taxonomic implications of SDS-PAGE analyses of seed proteins in North American taxa of Festuca subgenus Festuca (Poaceae)". Biochemical Systematics and Ecology. 20: 615–629. doi:10.1016/0305-1978(92)90019-A.
- ↑ Stevens, Catherine M. C. Haines with Helen M. (2001). International women in science : a biographical dictionary to 1950. Santa Barbara, Calif. [u.a.]: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1-57607-090-5.
- 1 2 Charlton, Deric. "Obituary - Margot Forde - death of a prominent seed botanist" (PDF).
- ↑ IPNI. Ashwin.
- ↑ http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/12137/margot-forde-germplasm-centre
- International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI). "Author Details" (HTML). International Plant Names Index.
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