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Mikhail Grigorevich Popov

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Nationality
  
Soviet

Name
  
Mikhail Popov

Fields
  
Botany, Geobotany

Institutions
  
Saratov University, Tashkent University, All-Union Institute of Horticulture, Kazakhstan branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Batumi Botanical Garden

Died
  
December 18, 1955, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Mikhail Grigorevich Popov (Russian: Mihail Grigor'evich Popov) (April 5(17), 1893 – December 18, 1955) was a Soviet botanist. He is known for developing a theory on the role of hybridization in plant evolution, and studying the flora of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The standard author abbreviation Popov is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.

Eponomy

  • Popoviocodonia Fed. 1957 Campanulaceae
  • Popoviolimon Lincz. Plumbaginaceae
  • References

    Mikhail Grigorevich Popov Wikipedia