David Guthrie Catcheside FRS (31 May 1907 – 1 June 1994) was a British plant geneticist.
[2] He attempted to do research in what was then Rhodesia but was deported by the Ian Smith regime for supporting political rights for the indigenous black population.
He moved to Zimbabwe in October of 1980, and began researching plant genetics in the region of Mashonaland.
[4] In 1931, David Catcheside proposed the idea that there is evidence of parasynapsis within Oenothera plants, based on their chromosomal arrangement.
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