Raymond John Moore (1918–1988) was a Canadian botanist best known for his researches into ''

Buddleja ''Buddleja'' (; ''Buddleia''; also historically given as ''Buddlea'') is a genus comprising over 140 species of flowering plants endemic to Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The generic name bestowed by Linnaeus posthumously honoured the Revere ...

hybridization Hybridization (or hybridisation) may refer to: *Hybridization (biology), the process of combining different varieties of organisms to create a hybrid *Orbital hybridization, in chemistry, the mixing of atomic orbitals into new hybrid orbitals *Nu ...

at the Blandy Experimental Farm in Boyce,

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, USA,Moore, R. J. (1949). ''Am. J. Bot.'' 36, p.513. 1949. and later at the Canadian Department of Agriculture Plant Research Institute in

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, where he specialized in

cytogenetics Cytogenetics is essentially a branch of genetics, but is also a part of cell biology/cytology (a subdivision of human anatomy), that is concerned with how the chromosomes relate to cell behaviour, particularly to their behaviour during mitosis an ...

Publications

* Moore, R. J. (1949). Cytotaxonomic studies in the Loganiaceae. III Artificial hybrids in the genus Buddleia. L. ''Am. J. Bot.'' 36, 511–516. 1949. * Moore, R. J. (1952). An interspecific hybrid in Buddleja. ''Journal of Heredity.'' Vol. 43, Issue 1, 41–44. Oxford University Press. * Moore, R. J. (1960). Cytotaxonomic notes on Buddleia. L. ''Am. J. Bot.'' 47, 6, 511–517. 1960. * Moore, R. J. (1961). Polyploidy, phylogeny and photoperiodism in Old World Buddleja. ''Evolution''. Vol. 15, No. 3, Sept. 1961. * Moore, R. J. and Frankton, C. (1974). The Thistles of Canada. Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa; Monograph No. 10. * Norman, E. M. & Moore, R. J. (1968). Notes on Emorya (Loganiaceae). ''The Southwestern Naturalist''. 13 (2), 137–142. Sept. 1968.

References

1914 births Botanists with author abbreviations 20th-century Canadian botanists 1988 deaths People from Boyce, Virginia {{Canada-botanist-stub