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Place of Birth: Mondoubleau, Centre-Val de Loire, France
About Auguste Trécul
- Auguste Adolphe Lucien Trécul (8 January 1818 in Mondoubleau – 17 October 1896 in Paris) was a French botanist. He studied pharmacy in Paris, and in 1841 became an interne to hospitals.
- His interests later changed to botany, and in 1848–50, on behalf of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and the Ministry of Agriculture, he conducted scientific research in North America.
- In 1866 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences (botany section), and during the following year, was awarded the Légion d'Honneur.His main research dealt with plant anatomy, physiology and organogenesis.
- He published important papers on the structure of different members within the botanical family Nymphaeaceae, and was the author of a significant monograph on Artocarpeae.
- Many of his scientific articles were published in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles (from 1843 onward) and the Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences.
- In his studies of fermentation, he differed with the conclusions reached by Louis Pasteur.
- The plant genus Treculia (family Moraceae) was named in his honor by Joseph Decaisne.
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