Maria Vorontsova (botanist)

For the pediatric endocrinologist, see Maria Vorontsova.

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Sergeevna and the family name is Vorontsova.

Maria Vorontsova
Born	1979 (age 44–45)
Nationality	Russian
Alma mater	University of Cambridge Open University
Known for	Poaceae
Scientific career
Fields	Botany
Thesis	(2008)
Author abbrev. (botany)	Voronts.

Maria Sergeevna Vorontsova (Russian: Мария Сергеевна Воронцова; born 1979) is a Russian-born botanist, specializing in the taxonomy of Poaceae (grasses). 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.

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 (October 2015). "Photosynthetic innovation broadens the niche within a single species" (PDF). Ecology Letters. 18 (10): 1021–1029. Bibcode:2015EcolL..18.1021L. doi:10.1111/ele.12484. PMID 26248677.
• Vorontsova, Maria S.; Christenhusz, Maarten J. M.; Kirika, Paul; Muthoka, Patrick (1 December 2010). "Three New Species of Solanum from Kenya: Using Herbarium Specimens to Document Environmental Change". Systematic Botany. 35 (4): 894–906. doi:10.1600/036364410X539943. S2CID 85397166.
• Vorontsova, Maria A.; Clayton, Derek; Simon, Bryan K. (15 April 2015). "Grassroots e-floras in the Poaceae: growing GrassBase and GrassWorld". PhytoKeys (48): 73–84. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.48.7159. PMC 4408733. PMID 25941449.
• Trias-Blasi, Anna; Vorontsova, Maria (May 2015). "Plant identification is key to conservation". Nature. 521 (7551): 161. doi:10.1038/521161c. PMID 25971502. S2CID 4448411.

External links

• Biography on Kew Science