Charles Edward Turner

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Charles Edward Turner is a American Botaniste , born the September 21st 1945 with Washington, D.C and dead the April 15th 1997 of the continuations of a cancer of the Côlon and Foie.

It grows with Indianapolis where its walks in the wood of the Indiana make it like nature. It obtains its Bachelor off Arts in Biologie in Wabash College in 1967. It considers a time to be directed towards the Médecine before deciding to continue to study biology. He studies at the university of Washington of Seattle where he obtains a Master off Sciences in Botanique in 1969.

He goes then to the university of Berkeley of California where he studies the nutritive systems of the plants near Herbert George Baker (1920-2001) and obtains his doctorate in 1981, his thesis relates to the nutritive system of Sagittaria , adventitious of the plantations of Riz of the central valley of California.

Turner begins its association with USDA-ARS in 1981, date on which it enters to the biological laboratory of control of the Adventice S. It leaves to Albany for a doctoral research post on the competition between plants near Llyod Andres. In 1983, it starts to work on the biological control of the Centaurée of the solstice ( Centaurea solstitialis ). In 1995, he becomes the director of the biological laboratory of control of the USDA-ARS of Brisbane where he directs the fight against Melaleuca quinquenervia , a plant invading in the Everglades of Florida. It introduces several insects to fight it.

Even if its interest first residence botany, Turner was interested on many subjects in particular the relations between the Arthropode S and the plants, the birds and many other things. It takes part in the flora of California of Willis Linn Jepson (1867-1946) and in which it signs the part devoted to the Alismataceae and is co-signatory of that devoted to the Cardueae

Source

Obituary published in '' Plant Science Bulletin '', ''' 43 ''' (4) (in English)

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