Dorothea De Winton

De Winton worked as a professional gardener from 1916 until 1919, before approaching William Bateson with an interest in studying plants in a more scientific manner.

[1] She thus became one of the 'Bateson Ladies' at the John Innes Horticultural Institution in 1920, joining Caroline Pellew, Dorothy Cayley, Alice Gairdner, Aslaug Sverdrup and Irma Andersson in the so-called 'Ladies Lab'.

She continued her work on Primula, resulting in the discovery of 20 new mutants[1] and further publications on primrose genetics.

[7] In 1929, De Winton was officially named a geneticist at the John Innes Horticultural Institution.

In 2019, the Dorothea De Winton Field Station was opened at the John Innes Centre.