Christine Beveridge is internationally recognised for her research into the hormonal control of plant development and shoot architecture, of particular importance to the agricultural and horticultural industries. Her research led to the discovery of the hormone strigolactone that is involved in nutrient uptake, shoot branching and root development.
Anna Koltunow is a plant physiologist whose contributions to understanding plant reproduction by uncovering mechanisms regulating fruit and seed formation via sexual and asexual (apomictic) pathways are being used in developing countries to improve crop production.
Australian educator and botanist
Cecily Lydia Fearnley was awarded the Queensland Natural History Award in 2001 and has published several popular books on the flora and fauna of Noosa and surrounding areas.
Celia Rosser is recognised as one of the world’s best botanical artists, and for having painted all the species of one genus, Banksia.
American botanical illustrator
Australian plant physiologist and ethnobotanist
Annie McCann collected botanical specimens in a wide region in the Victorian highlands; the National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 200 of her specimens. McCann was an accomplished painter and published a book of poems in 1888.
Annie Richards collected plants between the mid-1870s and the 1890s which she sent to Victorian Government Botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in Melbourne. Over 400 specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.
Barbara Briggs joined the National Herbarium of New South Wales in November 1969 as a Botanist and later became a Research Scientist, Assistant Director (Herbarium) and then Senior Assistant Director (Scientific).