Jayne V. Armstrong facts for kids

Jayne Vanessa Armstrong is a British scientist who studies plants, also known as a botanist. She is famous for her important work on elm trees in Britain. She was active in her research around 1996.

Understanding Elm Trees

For a long time, scientists had different ideas about how to classify British elm trees. In 1984, another scientist from Cambridge, Richard Hook Richens, suggested that there were only two main types of British elms.

Jayne Armstrong's Research

Jayne Armstrong thought there were more types of elms than just two. For her big research project to earn her doctorate degree (called a Ph.D. thesis), she looked very closely at British elms. She proposed a new way of classifying them, suggesting there were actually 40 different kinds, including species, subspecies (types within a species), and even smaller groups called microspecies.

Her Work's Impact

Jayne Armstrong's ideas were very important. Even though a full series of her work wasn't published in the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, her classification became the foundation for a major book about British plants. This book, called Flora of Great Britain and Ireland, was put together by scientists Sell and Murrell and was published in 2018. It shows how much her detailed study helped other botanists understand the many different kinds of elm trees.

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