Thomas W. Whitaker

American botanist and horticulturist (1904-1993).

Thomas Wallace Whitaker (August 13, 1904 – November 29, 1993) was an American botanist and horticulturist who spent most of his career working as a geneticist for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). He specialized in the study of economically important plants such as squashes, investigating their systematics and resistance to disease.

Abbreviations: Whitaker
Occupations: horticulturist, botanist
Citizenships: United States
Languages: English
Dates: 1904-08-13T00:00:00Z – 1993-11-29T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Monrovia
Direct attributions: 1 plant, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 2 plants, 0 fungi

1 plant attributed, 1 plant contributed to2 plants:

Cucurbita ecuadorensis (Ecuadorian Squash) Cutler & Whitaker 1969
vulnerable and annual plant species in the cucurbitaceae family
Cucurbita ecuadorensis is a species of squash, described in 1965 as growing wild in Ecuador. Like most wild gourds and squashes, it is a creeping vine and is often found climbing over other vegetation. It has been found only in the western provinces of Guayas and Manabí. There is evidence that it was domesticated in Ecuador around 10,000 years ago, likely for its seeds, but no direct records exist and it is no longer cultivated. It is resistant to many diseases of cultivated Cucurbita species, and has been used to breed resistance to several diseases into common squashes. For example,
Hippeastrum puniceum ssp. quentinianum (Traub & Whitaker) R.Lara & R.Vásquez 2015
plant subspecies in the amaryllidaceae family
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