Research Associate, Missouri Botanical Garden

Dorothea Bedigian investigates traditional sesame cultivars and the natural history of their wild relatives.

Her approach is interdisciplinary, blending agronomy and botany with chemistry, genetics, geography.

Bedigian’s current research projects are a revision of the genus Sesamum L., integrating systematics, biogeography and phytochemistry; taxonomic assessment of the sesame family, Pedaliaceae.

Bedigian has been a Research Associate at the Missouri Botanical Garden since 1978.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6652-2758

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dorothea_Bedigian

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NjjjBmAAAAAJ&hl=en&scioq=Dorothea+Bedigian

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