Maria Vorontsova (botanist) explained

Maria Vorontsova
Nationality:	Russian
Fields:	Botany
Alma Mater:	University of Cambridge Open University
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Thesis Year:	2008
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Known For:	Poaceae
Author Abbrev Bot:	Voronts.

Maria Sergeevna Vorontsova (ru|Мария Сергеевна Воронцова; born 1979) is a Russian-born botanist, specializing in the taxonomy of Poaceae (grasses).^[1] She was responsible for authoring the taxon for Solanum agnewiorum and Solanum umtuma. She is a member of the Accelerated Taxonomy department at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She is one of the co-authors and maintainers of GrassBase, and is an editor of the journal, Phytotaxa.

In 2010, she identified a new species of Africa spiny aubergine, Solanum ruvu, which had been collected only once in the wild ten years earlier. A subsequent expedition failed to locate it, and it is now believed to be extinct due to deforestation.^[2]

Publications

• Lundgren . Marjorie R. . Besnard . Guillaume . Ripley . Brad S. . Lehmann . Caroline E. R. . Chatelet . David S. . Kynast . Ralf G. . Namaganda . Mary . Vorontsova . Maria S. . Hall . Russell C. . Elia . John . Osborne . Colin P. . Christin . Pascal-Antoine . Photosynthetic innovation broadens the niche within a single species . . October 2015 . 18 . 10 . 1021–1029 . 10.1111/ele.12484 . 26248677. 2015EcolL..18.1021L .
• Vorontsova . Maria S. . Christenhusz . Maarten J. M. . Kirika . Paul . Muthoka . Patrick . Three New Species of Solanum from Kenya: Using Herbarium Specimens to Document Environmental Change . . 1 December 2010 . 35 . 4 . 894–906 . 10.1600/036364410X539943. 85397166 .
• Vorontsova . Maria A. . Clayton . Derek . Simon . Bryan K. . Grassroots e-floras in the Poaceae: growing GrassBase and GrassWorld . . 15 April 2015 . 48 . 73–84 . 10.3897/phytokeys.48.7159. 25941449 . 4408733 . free .
• Trias-Blasi . Anna . Vorontsova . Maria . Plant identification is key to conservation . . May 2015 . 521 . 7551 . 161 . 10.1038/521161c. 25971502 . 4448411 . free .

External links

• Biography on Kew Science

Notes and References

1. Web site: Vorontsova, Maria Sergeevna . www.ipni.org . . 26 February 2022.
2. Web site: Solanum ruvu Voronts. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . . en.