Lela Viola Barton (1901–1967) was an American botanist who specialized in seed germination and storage.
[1] Lela Barton was born in Farmington, Washington County, Arkansas, on 14 November 1901, the third of five children born to Gaston Reuben and Mary Fannie (née Miller) Barton.
[2] Barton worked at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Yonkers, in New York City, specializing in seeds.
[1] Barton died aged 66 at Tucson, Arizona, on 31 July 1967; she was buried at Fairview Memorial Gardens, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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