Abstract
Tatyana Yakovlevna Serebryakova (1893-?) conducted taxonomic research on Cannabis sativa L. for 20 years. She published important papers and a book on the subject. Next to every great man stands a great woman, and Serebryakova was Vavilov’s hemp expert. Yet her biography has never been written, and many details are lost. We have reconstructed her history based on historical archives, her publications, and her-barium specimen labels. Highlights of her scientific contributions are presented.
Highlights
Research on Cannabis sativa by Tatyana Yakovlevna Serebryakova has been cited by many researchers in Russia, Western Europe, and the United States
Her specimens of Cannabis sativa L. can be found in such herbaria as WIR
It is worth noting that Yanishevsky and Vavilov competed for priority regarding the nomenclature of wild hemp, naming it Cannabis ruderalis and Cannabis sativa var. spontanea, respectively
Summary
Research on Cannabis sativa by Tatyana Yakovlevna Serebryakova has been cited by many researchers in Russia, Western Europe, and the United States. Her specimens of Cannabis sativa L. can be found in such herbaria as WIR (held by the N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources, VIR) and LE (maintained by the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences). A collection of Vavilov’s correspondence identified her as “Serebryakova (Zarina) Tatyana Yakovlevna (1893 -?), an employee of VIPBiNK [Editor’s note: the All-Russian Institute of Applied Botany and New Crops; from 1930, the All-Russian Institute of Plant Industry], a hemp expert”
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