Giorgio Gallesio (in English and French sources Georges Gallesio, 23 May 1772 – 30 November 1839[1][2][3]) was an Italian botanist and researcher of the 18th and 19th centuries, specializing in citrus.[4][5] His famous book Traité du citrus was first printed in 1811 and reprinted in 1826 due to its popularity.[6] In this work, he presented his findings that hybrids are offspring of outcross pollination and not due to grafting as previously thought.[7] He also studied the family barriers affecting species compatibility and gave a good account of the history and distribution of citrus. He was widely cited in many works of his day,[8] and also in The Citrus Industry book, by Webber, Batchelor and others.[9]
Giorgio Gallesio | |
|---|---|
| Born | 23 May 1772 Finalborgo, Province of Savona, Italy |
| Died | 30 November 1839 (aged 67) |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany, plant systematics |
He has a further minor claim to fame as the first person to use the expression 'dominant' (in Italian, 'dominante') to refer to the hereditary transmission of characters when plants are hybridised ("Quindi la loro combinazione, non essendo naturale, riesce inconstante nei suoi effeti, e questi portano, ora l'impronta di un principio, ora di un altro, in proporzione che ve ne è uno dominante." Gallesio, Giorgio. Teoria della Riproduzione Vegetale, Pisa: Nicolo Capurro, 1816, p 79. English translation in Stubbe, Hans. History of Genetics, pp. 107–08). The term appears in a passage in which Gallesio describes the hybridisation of two strains of carnations having red and white flowers.
Bibliography
edit- — (1811). Traité du citrus (in French). L. Fantin.
- — (1820). Pomona italiana parte scientifica fascicolo primo contenente il trattato del fico (in Italian). presso Niccolò Capurro Company' caratteri di Didot.
Biography
edit- Ferraro, C.; Gallesio, G. (1996). Giorgio Gallesio (1772-1839): vita, opere, scritti e documenti inediti. I Georgofili (in Italian). Accademia dei Georgofili.
References
edit- ^ Gallesio, G.; Baldini, E. (1995). I giornali dei viaggi (in Italian). Accademia dei georgofili. p. 6. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
Giorgio Gallesio nacque a Finalborgo il 23 maggio 1772. Coniugato con Giovanna Ferri, nel 1806 ebbe da lei un figlio cui fu imposto il nome di Giovanni Battista e che, nel 1828, sposò la contessina Pellina Piuma di Prasco. Le opere ...
- ^ Gallesio, G.; Baldini, E. (1995). I giornali dei viaggi (in Italian). Accademia dei georgofili. p. 415. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
La mattina del 4 ottobre 1839 Gallesio lasciò Forti alla volta di Firenze da dove proseguì per Pisa dove partecipò ai lavori della «Prima Riunione ... Qui cessò di vivere alle ore diciannove del 30 novembre.
- ^ Spreti, V. (1930). Enciclopedia storico-nobiliare italiana. Enciclopedia storico-nobiliare italiana (in Italian). Ed. Enciclopedia storico-nobiliare italiana. p. 329. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
... n. il 23 maggio 1772, m. il 30 novembre 1839; marito di Giovanna Ferri, cultore. ...
- ^ Kostioukovitch, E. (2010). Why Italians Love to Talk About Food. Gerald Duckworth & Company. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-7156-4655-7. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
... Giorgio Gallesio years, from (1772–1839) north to south, completed through a journey all the countrysides and villages of Italy. With the ardor of an enlightened thinker and classify the fanaticism the principal of a varieties collector, of he ...
- ^ von Humboldt, A.; Kutzinski, V.M.; Ette, O. (2011). Political Essay on the Island of Cuba: A Critical Edition. Alexander von Humboldt in English. University of Chicago Press. p. 347. ISBN 978-0-226-46567-8. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
Giorgio Gallesio (1772–1839) was an Italian botanist who, although trained in law at the University of Pavia in Italy, had a passion for pomology. He published several books on the topic, including Teoria della riproduzione vegetale [Theory of ...
- ^ Journal de la Société nationale d'horticulture de France (in French). Au bureau de la Société d'horticulture de Paris. 1835. p. 41. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
- ^ Swingle, W.T. (1943). The botany of citrus and its wild relatives of the orange subfamily (family Rutaceae, subfamily Aurantioideae). Univ. of California Press. p. 388. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
- ^ Stewart, J.L.; Brandis, D. (1874). The Forest Flora of North-West and Central India ... Commenced by ... J. L. S. ... Continued and Completed by D. Brandis, Etc. p. 51. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
- ^ "LITERATURE CITED". lib.ucr.edu. 22 September 2006. Archived from the original on 22 September 2006. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Gallesio.
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