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| George E. Arceneaux (08 Mar) 1895 - 1986 (01 Jul) |
| George Arceneaux was an American plant breeder and former head of the sugar cane breeding program at USDA. He is largely credited with restoring the Louisiana sugar cane industry by developing improved varieties. Arceneaux was also involved in improving cane abroad, and consulted widely in such places as Egypt and the Dominican Republic. He is also remembered as a proud advocate of Acadian (Cajun) culture in Louisiana, publishing Youth in Acadie: Reflections on Acadian Life and Culture in Southwest Louisiana in 1974. Most of Arceneaux's pre-1968 research notes and archives were lost during Hurricane Camille in Pass Christian, Mississippi. His later and salvaged early material was deposited with the Archives, University of Louisiana, Lafayette. |
| Bio - Louisiana.edu | Obituary - NY Times | Gravesite | Bio - Amer. Iris Soc. |
| 1934. Arceneaux, George and Ralph Brownson Bisland. Studies on Handling Sugarcane Frozen Early in March in Advanced Stages of Development. (324): . | Google Scholar |
| 1939. Pieters, Aj, Benjamin Gaillard Sitton, Carl Rohwer, Charlotte Chatfield, Clarence Francis Kelly, Furman Lloyd Mulford, George Arceneaux, George Henry Hepting, Ira Myron Hawley and Ji Hardy. Orach: Its Culture and Use as a Greens Crop in the Great Plains. (526-550): . | Google Scholar |
| 1940. Pieters, Aj, Benjamin Gaillard Sitton, Carl Rohwer, Charlotte Chatfield, Clarence Francis Kelly, Furman Lloyd Mulford, George Arceneaux, George Henry Hepting, Ira Myron Hawley and Ji Hardy. Two New Varieties of Almond: The Jordanolo and the Harpareil. (526-550): . | Google Scholar |
| 1967. Arceneaux, George. Cultivated sugarcanes of the world and their botanical derivation. (): 844-854. | Google Scholar |