Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz
Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz (born 1939 in
Education
In 1962, Al-Shehbaz earned a
Career
Prior to his current professorial and curatorial position, Al-Shehbaz was a professor and director of an
By unlocking the knowledge of China's great botanical treasures for the rest of the world, the project brings together hundreds of Chinese and Western scientists for an invaluable exchange of ideas, training, information, and plant specimens. It is an enormous advancement for systematic and applied botany ... China's plant species represent a significant percentage of the world's total. If we don't do this kind of research, how will we know what we have and how to protect it?[7]
Academic specialties
Al-Shehbaz's primary academic interests are the
Al-Shehbaz has described ten new genera previously unknown to science.[7] He has described over four hundred plant species[1] and more than seventy of them were previously unknown.[7] Al-Shehbaz has called botanical science "a race with time to document what's there before it's gone."[7]
Selected bibliography
- Al-Shehbaz, I. A. 2006. The genus Sisymbrium in South America, with synopses of the genera Chilocardamum, Mostacillastrum, Neuontobotrys, and Polypsecadium (Brassicaceae). Darwiniana 44: 341–358.
- Warwick, S. I., A. Francis & I. A. Al-Shehbaz. 2006. Brassicaceae: species checklist and database on CD-Rom. Pl. Syst. Evol. 259: 249–258.
- Warwick, S. I. & I. A. Al-Shehbaz. 2006. Brassicaceae: chromosome number index and database on CD-Rom. Pl. Syst. Evol. 259: 237–248.
- Al-Shehbaz, I. A., M. A. Beilstein & E. A. Kellogg. 2006. Systematics and phylogeny of the Brassicaceae: an overview. Pl. Syst. Evol. 259: 89–120.
- Beilstein, M., I. A. Al-Shehbaz & E. A. Kellogg. 2006. Brassicaceae phylogeny and trichome evolution. Am. J. Bot. 93: 607–619.
- Mitchell-Olds, T., I. A. Al-Shehbaz, M. Koch & T. F. Sharbel. 2005. Crucifer evolution in the post-genomic era. Pp. 119–137 in R. J. Henry, ed., Plant Diversity and Evolution: Genotypic and Phenotypic Variation in Higher Plants. CAB International.
- O'Kane, S. L., Jr. & I. A. Al-Shehbaz. 2003. Phylogenetic position and generic limits of Arabidopsis (Brassicaceae) based on sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 90: 603–612.
- Al-Shehbaz, I. A. 2003. Transfer of most North American species of Arabis to Boechera (Brassicaceae). Novon 13: 381–391.
- Koch, M., I. A. Al-Shehbaz & K. Mummenhoff. 2003. Molecular systematics, evolution, and population biology in the mustard family (Brassicaceae). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 90: 151–171.
- Appel, O. & I. A. Al-Shehbaz. 2003. Cruciferae. In: K. Kubitzki (editor), Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. 5: 75–174. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg.
References
- ^ a b c d e [1] 2008 Missouri Botanical Garden
- ^ [2] The Durango Herald "Botanists discover 2 plant species (March 6, 2008)
- ^ [3] U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Missouri Bladderpod 5-Year Review (2008)
- ^ [4] Author attributions for Southern California plant names
- ^ a b [5] Biography at efloras.org
- ^ a b c [6] Flora of China Project (harvard.edu)
- ^ a b c d e f g [7] MBG Research: The Unseen Garden
- ^ a b [8] Archived 2011-05-24 at the Wayback Machine Flora of North America (harvard.edu)
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Al-Shehbaz.