Duane Isely

Duane Isely (October 24, 1918 – December 7, 2000) was an American professor of botany. Quotes The seeds of a few kinds of weeds can be carried long distances by natural means; for instance, dandelion seeds are wind-transported, cockleburs and stickseeds are carried by the hair of animals. However, the seeds of most weeds are spread by human agencies, most commonly in mixtures with agricultural seed. Seeds of Iowa noxious weeds Bulletin P 4 101 1 1949 https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/bulletinp/vol4/iss101/1/ Legumes are vital because they provide fixed nitrogen for agricultural soils (the recent substitution of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers certainly being a temporary expedient), and because they furnish most of the protein for human food in high-population parts of the world. Man's dependence on grasses and legumes has been coeval. Leguminosae and Homo sapiens Economic Botany 36 1 1982 46–70 10.1007/BF02858699 External links Category:Academics from the United States Category:Biologists from the United States Category:Botanists from the United States Category:1918 births Category:2000 deaths Category:People from Arkansas