Raymond John Moore (1918–1988) was a Canadian botanist best known for his researches into ''

Buddleja ''Buddleja'' (; ''Buddleia''; also historically given as ''Buddlea'') is a genus comprising over 140 species of flowering plants endemicity, endemic to Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The generic name bestowed by Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus posthu ...

'' hybridization at the Blandy Experimental Farm in Boyce,

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the East Coast of the United States ...

, USA,Moore, R. J. (1949). ''Am. J. Bot.'' 36, p.513. 1949. and later at the Canadian Department of Agriculture Plant Research Institute in

Ottawa Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It is located in the southern Ontario, southern portion of the province of Ontario, at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the cor ...

, where he specialized in

cytogenetics Cytogenetics is essentially a branch of genetics, but is also a part of cell biology/cytology (a subdivision of human anatomy), that is concerned with how the chromosomes relate to cell behaviour, particularly to their behaviour during mitosis an ...

Publications

* Moore, R. J. (1949). Cytotaxonomic studies in the Loganiaceae. III Artificial hybrids in the genus Buddleia. L. ''Am. J. Bot.'' 36, 511–516. 1949. * Moore, R. J. (1952). An interspecific hybrid in Buddleja. ''Journal of Heredity.'' Vol. 43, Issue 1, 41–44. Oxford University Press. * Moore, R. J. (1960). Cytotaxonomic notes on Buddleia. L. ''Am. J. Bot.'' 47, 6, 511–517. 1960. * Moore, R. J. (1961). Polyploidy, phylogeny and photoperiodism in Old World Buddleja. ''Evolution''. Vol. 15, No. 3, Sept. 1961. * Moore, R. J. and Frankton, C. (1974). The Thistles of Canada. Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa; Monograph No. 10. * Norman, E. M. & Moore, R. J. (1968). Notes on Emorya (Loganiaceae). ''The Southwestern Naturalist''. 13 (2), 137–142. Sept. 1968.

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1914 births Botanists with author abbreviations 20th-century Canadian botanists 1988 deaths People from Boyce, Virginia {{Canada-botanist-stub