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P.Maheswari-plant embryologist K.C.Mehtha-plant taxonomist Thiofrostes-Author of Historia Plantarum Liberty Hyde Bailey, Jr. - wrote an encyclopedia of plants; founded The American Society for Horticultural Science and the Botanical Society of America

Rudolph Jacob Camerarius - experiments confirmed existence of sexes in plants; described the role of pollination

John Bartram - early American botanist finding "new" plants for classification, such as sassafras and the American cyclamen; successfully experimented with hybridization

Carolus Linnaeus - developed the modern system of taxonomy (kingdom, class, order, genus, species J.C.Bose-who said plants are living, they can breath, they can grow, they can sleep,.... Bentham & Hooker- plant taxonomist

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