Jack Hawkes (botanist)

For the Australian tennis player, also known as Jack Hawkes, see John Hawkes (tennis).

John Gregory "Jack" Hawkes OBE FLS (27 June 1915 – 6 September 2007) was a British botanist, Mason Professor of Botany at the University of Birmingham.^[1][2]

He specialised in studying the taxonomy of wild potato species (Solanum sect. Petota), identified sources of resistance to the potato cyst nematode and played a role in establishing programs to maintain agricultural biodiversity.^[3][4]

References

1. "Jack Hawkes: Plant Collector, Researcher, Mentor and Visionary". Crop Wild Relative Conservation and Use. CABI. 2008. pp. 18–20. ISBN 978-1-84593-307-4.
2. Lawrence Goldman (7 March 2013). "Hawkes, John Gregory". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008. Oxford University Press. pp. 499–500. ISBN 978-0-19-967154-0.
3. "Professor Jack Hawkes". The Independent. 2007-10-18. Retrieved 2014-04-06.
4. "Professor Jack Hawkes". The Daily Telegraph. 2007-09-21. Retrieved 2014-04-06.
5. "Author Query for 'Hawkes'". International Plant Names Index.

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• Richard N. Lester (2005). "Book Review - Hunting the Wild Potato in the South American Andes: Memories of the British Empire Potato Collecting Expedition to South America 1938–1939". Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 52: 483–488. doi:10.1007/s10722-004-8253-8.
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