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Edgar Anderson

(09 Nov) 1897 - 1969 (18 Jun)





Edgar Anderson was an American botanist, horticulturist, geneticist, and ethnobotanist who made several important contributions to science. His interest in the genetics of maize, especially, led to new methods of commercial corn hybridization, and his research pointed to teosinte as not being the progenitor of maize (later refuted by other researchers). Anderson's work with Iris and Tradescantia led to a novel and useful way of visualizing morphology via ideographs, which combine mathematics (size and proportion) into illustrations. These early plant studies led to influential ideas about the importance of interspecific hybridization in plant evolution, outlined in his 1949 book Introgressive Hybridization. His 1952 Plants, Man and Life was likewise enormously influential in the field of ethnobotany. Anderson worked out of the Missouri Botanical Garden from the 1920s onward (with a few years concurrently at Washington University in the 1920s, and the Arnold Arboretum in the early 1930s), and was for a time director at Missouri. He did fieldwork in Mexico, Honduras, Jugoslavia, and Ethiopia, among other places. Anderson is also noted for having co-founded The Herb Society of America, and for publishing over 2000 articles and books over four decades.


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1928. Anderson, Edgar. The Problem of Species in the Northern Blue Flags, Iris versicolor L. and Iris virginica L.. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (3): 241-332.Google Scholar
1929. Anderson, Edgar. Variation in Aster Anomalus. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (2): 129-144.Google Scholar
1931. ANDERSON, EDGAR and BRENHILDA SCHAFER. Species Hybrids in Aquilegia. Annals of Botany (180): 639-646.Google Scholar
1931. Anderson, Edgar and Dorothea de Winton. The Genetic Analysis of An Unusual Relationship between Self-Sterility and Self-Fertility in Nicotiana. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1): 97-116.Google Scholar
1931. Anderson, Edgar. The Chromosome Complements of Allium stellatum and Nothoscordum bivalve. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (3): 465-468.Google Scholar


1933. Anderson, Edgar. THE DISTRIBUTION OF IRIS VERSICOLOR IN RELATION TO THE POST-GLACIAL GREAT LAKES. Rhodora (413): 154-160.Google Scholar
1933. Anderson, Edgar. Color Variation in a Missouri Colony of Hepatica acutiloba. Rhodora (410): 66-67.Google Scholar
1935. ANDERSON, EDGAR and DOROTHEA DE WINTON. The Genetics of Primula sinensis. IV. Indications as to the Ontogenetic Relationship of Leaf and Inflorescence. Annals of Botany (196): 671-687.Google Scholar
1936. Anderson, Edgar and Karl Sax. A Cytological Monograph of the American Species of Tradescantia. Botanical Gazette (3): 433-476.Google Scholar
1936. Anderson, Edgar. COLOR VARIATION IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICAN FLOWERS AS EXEMPLIFIED BY HEPATICA ACUTILOBA. Rhodora (453): 301-304.Google Scholar
1936. Anderson, Edgar. Hybridization in American Tradescantias. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (3): 511-525.Google Scholar
1936. Anderson, Edgar. The Species Problem in Iris. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (3): 457-509.Google Scholar
1936. Anderson, Edgar. An Experimental Study of Hybridization in the Genus Apocynum. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (2): 159-168.Google Scholar
1937. Anderson, Edgar. Cytology in Its Relation to Taxonomy. Botanical Review (7): 335-350.Google Scholar
1937. Anderson, Edgar. Supra-Specific Variation in Nature and in Classification from the View- Point of Botany. The American Naturalist (734): 223-235.Google Scholar
1938. Anderson, Edgar and Leslie Hubricht. Hybridization in Tradescantia. III. The Evidence for Introgressive Hybridization. American Journal of Botany (6): 396-402.Google Scholar
1938. Anderson, Edgar and Leslie Hubricht. The American Sugar Maples. I. Phylogenetic Relationships, as Deduced from a Study of Leaf Variation. Botanical Gazette (2): 312-323.Google Scholar
1939. Anderson, Edgar and Ruth Peck Ownbey. The Genetic Coefficients of Specific Difference. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (4): 325-348.Google Scholar
1940. Brown, William L. and Edgar Anderson. Poa cuspidata of the Appalachian Plateau and Atlantic Coastal Plain. Castanea (8): 124-126.Google Scholar
1940. Anderson, Edgar and Leslie Hubricht. A Method for Describing and Comparing Blooming-Seasons. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (8): 639-648.Google Scholar
1940. Anderson, Edgar. The Concept of the Genus: II. A Survey of Modern Opinion. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (5): 363-369.Google Scholar
1941. Anderson, Edgar. Binary Variation in Tradescantia Bracteata. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (2): 147-163.Google Scholar
1941. Cutler, Hugh C. and Edgar Anderson. A Preliminary Survey of the Genus Tripsacum. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (3): 249-269.Google Scholar
1941. Anderson, Edgar. The Technique and Use of Mass Collections in Plant Taxonomy. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (3): 287-292.Google Scholar
1941. Hubricht, Leslie and Edgar Anderson. Vicinism in Tradescantia. American Journal of Botany (10): 957-957.Google Scholar
1942. Anderson, Edgar and Frederick D. Blanchard. Prehistoric Maize from Canon Del Muerto. American Journal of Botany (10): 832-835.Google Scholar
1942. Anderson, Edgar and Hugh C. Cutler. Races of Zea Mays: I. Their Recognition and Classification. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (2): 69-88.Google Scholar
1943. Anderson, Edgar. A Variety of Maize from the Rio Loa. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (4): 469-475.Google Scholar
1943. Anderson, Edgar. The Seeds of Tradescantia Micrantha. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1): 69-69.Google Scholar
1943. Kelly, Isabel and Edgar Anderson. Sweet Corn in Jalisco. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (4): 405-412.Google Scholar
1943. Anderson, Edgar and R.H. Barlow. The Maize Tribute of Moctezuma's Empire. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (4): 413-420.Google Scholar
1944. Anderson, Edgar and Dorothy Schregardus. A Method for Recording and Analyzing Variations of Internode Pattern. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (3): 241-247.Google Scholar
1944. Anderson, Edgar. Maiz Reventador. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (4): 301-315.Google Scholar
1944. Anderson, Edgar. Cytological Observations on Tripsacum dactyloides. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (4): 317-323.Google Scholar
1944. Anderson, Edgar. Homologies of the Ear and Tassel in Zea Mays. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (4): 325-343.Google Scholar
1944. Anderson, Edgar. Two Collections of Prehistoric Corn Tassels from Southern Utah. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (4): 345-353.Google Scholar
1944. Anderson, Edgar. The Sources of Effective Germ-Plasm in Hybrid Maize. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (4): 355-361.Google Scholar
1944. Anderson, Edgar. Notes on Variation in Tithonia tubaeformis. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (3): 239-240.Google Scholar
1945. Carter, George F. and Edgar Anderson. A Preliminary Survey of Maize in the Southwestern United States. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (3): 297-322.Google Scholar
1945. Anderson, Edgar and John Jay Finan. Maize in the Yanhuitlan Codex. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (3): 361-368.Google Scholar
1946. Anderson, Edgar. Maize in Mexico a Preliminary Survey. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (2): 147-247.Google Scholar
1947. Anderson, Edgar. Field Studies of Guatemalan Maize. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (4): 433-467.Google Scholar
1947. Brown, William L. and Edgar Anderson. The Northern Flint Corns. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1): 1-29.Google Scholar
1948. Brown, William L. and Edgar Anderson. The Southern Dent Corns. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (3): 255-268.Google Scholar
1948. Anderson, Edgar and William L. Brown. A Morphological Analysis of Row Number in Maize. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (4): 323-336.Google Scholar
1949. Stonor, C. R. and Edgar Anderson. Maize Among the Hill Peoples of Assam. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (3): 355-404.Google Scholar
1949. Rick, Charles M. and Edgar Anderson. On Some Uses of Maize in the Sierra of Ancash. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (4): 405-412.Google Scholar
1949. Anderson, E.. Introgressive hybridization.. (): ix + 109 pp..Google Scholar
1949. Camp, W. H. and Edgar Anderson. REVIEW OF: Introgressive Hybridization., Edgar Anderson. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (5): 369-372.Google Scholar
1951. Anderson, Edgar and G. Ledyard Stebbins. REVIEW OF: Variation and Evolution in Plants., G. Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (2): 170-171.Google Scholar
1952. Anderson, Edgar and Amy Gage. Introgressive Hybridization in Phlox bifida. American Journal of Botany (6): 399-404.Google Scholar
1952. Anderson, Edgar and William L. Brown. The History of the Common Maize Varieties of the United States Corn Belt. Agricultural History (1): 2-8.Google Scholar
1953. Anderson, Edgar. The Analysis of Suspected Hybrids, as Illustrated by Berberis x Gladwynensis. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (2): 73-78.Google Scholar
1953. Anderson, Edgar and William L. Brown. The Popcorns of Turkey. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1): 33-49.Google Scholar
1954. Youngman, Barbara J. and Edgar Anderson. Plants, Man and Life. Kew Bulletin (3): 452-452.Google Scholar
1954. Anderson, Edgar. Introgression in Adenostoma. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (3): 339-350.Google Scholar
1954. Anderson, Edgar and Burton R. Anderson. Introgression of Salvia Apiana and Salvia Mellifera. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (3): 329-338.Google Scholar
1954. Anderson, Edgar and William L. Brown. Ladyfinger and Tom Thumb, Two Old Varieties of Popcorn. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (3): 301-304.Google Scholar
1954. Anderson, Edgar. An Analysis of Introgression in a Population of Stemless White Violets. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (3): 263-269.Google Scholar
1954. Anderson, Edgar and Louis O. Williams. Maize and Sorghum as a Mixed Crop in Honduras. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (2): 213-221.Google Scholar
1954. Anderson, E. and G. L. Stebbins. Hybridization as an Evolutionary Stimulus. Evolution (4): 378-388.Google Scholar
1954. Anderson, Edgar. A Field Survey of Chromosome Numbers in the Species of Tradescantia Closely Allied to Tradescantia Virginiana. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (3): .Google Scholar
1955. Anderson, Edgar and Rolla M. Tryon. Norman Carter Fassett. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (3): 248-250.Google Scholar
1956. Anderson, Edgar and Theodosius Dobzhansky. REVIEW OF: Evolution, Genetics & Man., Theodosius Dobzhansky. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (6): 441-441.Google Scholar
1956. Anderson, Edgar. Natural History, Statistics, and Applied Mathematics. American Journal of Botany (10): 882-889.Google Scholar
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1964. Anderson, Edgar and George B. Van Schaack. Robert Everard Woodson, Jr. 1904. Taxon (2): 45-48.Google Scholar
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1968. Anderson, Edgar. Experimental Studies of the Species Concept. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (3): .Google Scholar
1969. Core, Earl L. and Edgar Anderson. REVIEW OF: Introgressive Hybridization, Edgar Anderson. Castanea (1): 95-96.Google Scholar
1988. Anderson, Edgar. Islands of Tension. Arnoldia (3): 28-31.Google Scholar
2000. Anderson, Edgar. [Rhododendrons, from The Bulletin of Popular Information, 1934]. Arnoldia (1): 27-29.Google Scholar
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