Bevan John Buirchell (born 1951) is an Australian

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

. He graduated from The University of Western Australia and obtained his PhD in biochemistry in 1982. In 1988 he began working on

lupins ''Lupinus'', commonly known as lupin, lupine, or regionally bluebonnet etc., is a genus of plants in the legume family Fabaceae. The genus includes over 199 species, with centers of diversity in North and South America. Smaller centers occur ...

as an agricultural crop, first as a research officer and later as Senior Lupin Breeder in the Western Australian Department of Agriculture. He has used molecular markers, especially markers for disease resistance, in breeding programs and was part of a team that tagged 9,000 locations on the lupin genome. He has co-authored papers on the subject of lupins, a book on the orchids of Western Australia and a ''Field Guide to the Eremophilas of Western Australia''.

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