Thomas Andrew Knight
Pionero en fisiología vegetal
Thomas Andrew Knight fue un horticultor y botánico británico. Sirvió como el segundo presidente de la Royal Horticultural Society (1811–1838). Nació en Wormesley Grange, a cinco millas al noroeste de Hereford en Herefordshire, segundo hijo del reverendo Thomas Knight (1697–1764) de Wormsley Grange, rector de Bewdley en Worcestershire, y de su esposa Ursula Nash, hija de Frederick Nash de Dinham en Shropshire. He attended Balliol College, Oxford. After graduation, he took up the study of horticulture. Attention was first called to his work in 1795 by the publication of the results of his research into the propagation of fruit trees and the diseases prevalent among them. He used 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) of land he inherited to conduct breeding of plants including strawberries, cabbages and peas and built an extensive greenhouse. In 1797 he published his Treatise on the Culture of the Apple and Pear, and on the Manufacture of Cider and Perry, a work which passed through several editions. He was one of the leading students of horticulture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but his personal papers disappeared after his death. Knight realizó experimentos fisiológicos básicos en plantas, una labor que anteriormente solo se había llevado a cabo raramente. Aclaró los efectos de la gravedad sobre las plántulas y cómo la pudrición en los árboles frutales se transmitía mediante el injerto.
Artworks by this artist (30 total)
- Holmore Pear 1811
- Forest Styre 1811
- Stead’s Kernel Apple 1811
- Pawsan 1811
- Friar 1811
- Downton Pippin 1811
- Foxwhelp 1811
- Woodcock 1811
- Loan Pearmain 1811
- Cowarne Red 1811
- Redstreak 1811
- Best Bache 1811
- Yellow Elliot 1811
- Old Quining 1811
- Longland Pears 1811
- Teinton Squash Pear 1811
- Old Pearmain 1811
- Foxley Apple 1811
- Oldfield Pear 1811
- Grange Apple 1811