Herbert G. Baker

Herbert George Baker (February 23, 1920 – July 2, 2001) was a British-American botanist and evolutionary ecologist who was an authority on pollination biology and breeding systems of angiosperms.[1] He originated Baker's law, the idea that the ability to self-fertilize should be common among species which successfully established populations through long-distance dispersal.[2] He collaborated with his wife, Irene Baker, studying nectar and undertaking research and publishing papers on its functional, evolutionary, and taxonomic significance.[3][4][5][6] He was Director of The University of California Botanical Garden.

Herbert G. Baker
Born(1920-02-23)February 23, 1920
Brighton, England
DiedJuly 1, 2001(2001-07-01) (aged 81)
Oakland, California
NationalityBritish
American
Alma materUniversity of London (B.S., Ph.D.)
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
Genetics
Ecology
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Doctoral studentsSpencer C.H. Barrett
Jane Haskett Bock

Publications
  • The Genetics of Colonizing Species (1965). Edited with G. Ledyard Stebbins.
  • Plants and Civilization (1965)

References
  1. Barrett, Spencer C. H. (November 2001). "The Baker and Stebbins era comes to a close". Evolution. 55 (11): 2371–2374. doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2001.tb00752.x.
  2. Pannell, John R. (May 2015). "Evolution of the mating system in colonizing plants". Molecular Ecology. 24 (9): 2018–2037. doi:10.1111/mec.13087.
  3. Kevan, P. G. (2003-05-01). "The modern science of ambrosiology: in honour of Herbert and Irene Baker". Plant Systematics and Evolution. 238 (1–4): 1–5. doi:10.1007/S00606-003-0271-Z.
  4. Herbert G. Baker; Irene Baker (1990). "THE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF NECTAR CHEMISTRY TO THE RECOGNITION OF POLLINATOR TYPES". Israel Journal of Plant Sciences. 39 (1–2): 157–177. ISSN 0792-9978. Wikidata Q108671338.
  5. Stephen H Bullock; Ricardo Ayala; Irene Baker; Herbert G Baker (1987). "REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY OF THE TREE IPOMOEA WOLCOTTIANA (CONVOLVULACEAE)". Madroño. 34 (4): 304–314. ISSN 0024-9637. JSTOR 41424651. Wikidata Q93962248.
  6. James H Hunt; Irene Baker; Herbert G Baker (1 November 1982). "Similarity of Amino Acids in Nectar and Larval Saliva: The Nutritional Basis for Trophallaxis in Social Wasps". Evolution. 36 (6): 1318–1322. doi:10.1111/J.1558-5646.1982.TB05501.X. ISSN 0014-3820. JSTOR 2408164. PMID 28563573. Wikidata Q44658429.
  7. IPNI.  H.G.Baker.


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