Howard Scott Gentry (December 10, 1903 - April 1, 1993) is an American botanist who is recognized as the world's leading authority on agave.
Gentry was born in Temecula, California. In 1931 he received A.B. Degree (degree) in vertebrate zoology from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1947, Gentry received his Ph.D. in botany from the University of Michigan, Dissertation: Durango Grassland .
Gentry made his first field visit to the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico in 1933. He spent most of the next twenty years exploring and recording the life of a northwestern Mexican plant. He worked for the US Department of Agriculture from 1950 to 1971. He made botanical field trips to Europe, India and Africa looking for plants that are useful to humans. He was a research botanist with Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona after 1971. He also collected many specimens now at the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.
His research in 1942 on crops in the RÃÆ'o Mayo region of northwestern Mexico became a classic because of the extent of previously unknown territory.
In addition to pure botanical work, he is interested in ethnobotany, and his crop description includes information about its uses by indigenous peoples.
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Work
- RÃÆ'o Mayo Sonora-Chihuahua Plant (1942), later renewed posthumously as Gentry's Rio Mayo Plants (University of Arizona Press, 1998) ISBNÃ, 0 - 8165-1726-6
- Agave Family from Sonora (USDA, 1972)
- The Agaves of Baja California (California Academy of Sciences, 1978)
- Agave of Continental North America (University of Arizona Press, 1982) ISBNÃ, 0-8165-2395-9
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References
Further reading
- Cunningham, Isabel S. "Howard Scott Gentry: agricultural renaissance man." Diversity 11 (1987): 23-24.
- Erickson, Jim. "Botanist, agave expert Howard S. Gentry died." The Arizona Daily Star (April 3, 1993).
- "Renewed plant researcher Howard Gentry at the age of 89" The Press Enterprise (April 8, 1993).
- Hadley, Diana. "'Listening to my mind': Howard Scott Gentry's memory of Rio Mayo." Southwest Journal 37 no. 2 (1995): 178-245.
- Pierce, Alison. "The Mexican Apprenticeship: the authority of centuries crops into so resistant Yault rebels, bushwhackers and suspicious poppy farmers." Arizona (February 11, 1979): 40-46.
- "Plant exploration that is respected by UA, industry and friends." Agri-News 9, no. 2 (July 1990).
- Verbiscar, Anthony J. "Howard Scott Gentry December 10, 1903-April 1, 1993." Economic Botany 47, No.. 3 (1993).
- Walters, James E. "Looking for answers in the desert." Saturday Magazine from Scottsdale Daily Progress (March 2, 1985): 6-7.
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