Jack Hawkes (botanist)
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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]
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- ‘HAWKES, Prof. John Gregory’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2008 accessed 30 May 2011
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