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Charles Vancouver Piper (16 June 1867 – 11 February 1926) was an American botanist and agriculturalist.[1] Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, he spent his youth in Seattle, Washington Territory and graduated from the University of Washington Territory in 1885. He taught botany and zoology in 1892 at the Washington Agricultural College (now Washington State University) in Pullman. He earned a master's degree in botany in 1900 from Harvard University.

Piper compiled the first authoritative guides to flora in the northwestern United States. With his collaborator, R. Kent Beattie, he surveyed the Palouse area of southeastern Washington, and expanded the study to the entire state in 1906. That year, The Smithsonian Institution published his catalog Flora of the State of Washington.[2] He also published Flora of Southeast Washington and Adjacent Idaho (1914) and Flora of the Northwest Coast (1915).[3][4] These works established him as an authority on the plants of the northwestern U.S.

In 1903, Piper began a career at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C., which lasted until his death there. He worked on the domestication and introduction of grasses. On a trip to Africa, he found Sudan grass and introduced it to North America as a forage plant (vegetable matter eaten by livestock). Piper noted that much less study had been made of forage crops as compared to cotton, cereals, and other crops. He attributed this to the lack of economic incentive in studying forage plants.

The soybean was another subject of Piper's studies. In 1923, he wrote, with William J. Morse, The Soybean, a thorough and now classic monograph of the species. The botanist was instrumental in establishing this plant as a successful crop in the U.S.[5][6] It became a fundamental part of U.S. agriculture. Since the 1970s, it has been the second largest and most valuable crop in the United States after corn - and ahead of wheat.

He was a founding member of the American Society of Agronomy in 1907 and served later as its president. Piper's knowledge of grasses led him to become Chairman of the United States Golf Association's Green Section from 1920 until his death.

The orchid genus Piperia, containing eight species (e.g., Piperia yadonii), is named after him.

The standard author abbreviation Piper is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[7]

References


  1. "PIPER, Charles Vancouver". The International Who's Who in the World. 1912. p. 858.
  2. Frye, Theodore C. (1907). "Reviewed work: The Flora of the State of Washington, Charles V. Piper". The Washington Historical Quarterly. 1 (2): 73–77. JSTOR 40473773.
  3. Abrams, L. (1916). "Review of Flora of the Northwest Coast". Science. 43 (1122): 932–933. doi:10.1126/science.43.1122.932.
  4. Rydberg, P. A. (1916). "Piper and Beattie's Flora of the Northwest Coast". Torreya. 16 (6): 143–146. JSTOR 40595716.
  5. Perkins; Woods; WSU Libraries.
  6. Shurtleff, William; Aoyagi, Akiko (2017). William Joseph Morse - History of His Work with Soybeans and Soyfoods (1884-2017): Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook (PDF). Lafayette, CA: Soyinfo Center. ISBN 9781928914952. With many documents by and about Charles V. Piper.
  7. IPNI.  Piper.

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[de] Charles Vancouver Piper

Charles Vancouver Piper (* 18. Juni 1867 in Victoria (British Columbia), Kanada; † 11. Februar 1926 in Washington, D.C., USA) war ein deutschamerikanischer Botaniker und Agrarwissenschaftler[1]. Sein offizielles botanisches Autorenkürzel lautet „.mw-parser-output .Person{font-variant:small-caps}Piper“.[2]
- [en] Charles Piper

[ru] Пайпер, Чарльз Ванкувер

Чарльз Ванку́вер Па́йпер (англ. Charles Vancouver Piper; 1867—1926) — американский ботаник.



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