Nikolai Aleksandrovich Maximov (also spelled Maksimov, Russian: Николай Александрович Максимов; 21 March 1880 – 9 May 1952) was a Russian-Soviet plant physiologist.
He also found that drought resistance was not achieved by plants merely through reduction of transpiration but by other stress tolerance mechanisms.
In 1933 he was arrested as a collaborator of Nikolai Vavilov under false charge of being a member of a revolutionary party.
He found that a number of traits were involved in the drought resistance of xerophytes and not merely reduced transpiration as was then thought.
[3] He examined photoperiod and was able to suggest methods for yield increase in greenhouses under artificial lighting.