Sir Rowland Harry Biffen (1874 to 1949) was a British botanist, mycologist and geneticist who served as a professor of agricultural botany at the University of Cambridge and worked on breeding wheat varieties. He founded the Journal of Agricultural Science and was also a gifted watercolor landscape artist.
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Defining ContributionPioneering Mendelian wheat breeding as Cambridge's first professor of agricultural botany 1 Connections
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Sir Rowland Harry Biffen FRS (28 May 1874, in Cheltenham, 12 July 1949) was a British botanist, mycologist, geneticist and a professor of agricultural botany at the University of Cambridge who worked on breeding wheat varieties.
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Sir Rowland Harry Biffen FRS (28 May 1874, in Cheltenham, 12 July 1949) was a British botanist, mycologist, geneticist and a professor of agricultural botany at the University of Cambridge who worked on breeding wheat varieties.
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