Edward Charles Daniel Cocking FRS (born 26 September 1931) is a British plant scientist, and Emeritus Professor at

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public university, public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs t ...

. He was on the Board of Trustees of

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 1,100 ...

, from 1983 to 1993. He is on the Board of Directors of Lawes Agricultural Trust Company and is a foreign fellow of the

National Academy of Agricultural Sciences The National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) is a Government of India funded agency, established in 1990, is a research platform in the fields of crop husbandry, animal husbandry, fisheries and agro-forestry. It acts as a research base for ...

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"The Quest for Nitrogen Fixing Cereals"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cocking, Edward British botanists 1931 births Academics of the University of Nottingham Fellows of the Royal Society Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences