James Duke, who is an economic botanist with United States Department of Agriculture, calls phenology his favorite subject.

In 1901 he appointed an imperial mycologist and an imperial entomologist; two years later, he appointed an imperial agriculturalist and an imperial economic botanist.

He named it in Honor of Dr. Visvesvaraiah Prakash, an economic botanist, ethnobotanist and taxonomist.

William Andrew Archer (1894-1973) was an economic botanist and plant collector who obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1926.

Richard Thomas Baker (1 December 1854 - 14 July 1941) was an Australian economic botanist, museum curator and educator.

On 15 January 1888 Baker was appointed assistant curator to Joseph Henry Maiden at the Technological Museum, and in 1901 succeeded Maiden as curator and economic botanist.

Jim Duke, an economic botanist at the department's research center in Beltsville, Md., has been collecting data for some years on the temperature and rainfall conditions in which 1,000 agricultural plants flourish.

In 1905, she married Albert Howard, imperial economic botanist to the government of India.

In 1913, Gabrielle Howard became the second imperial economic botanist to the government of India.

From 1981 to 1985 he was an economic botanist and founding horticulturalist of Glie Farms in the South Bronx, a national model for urban agriculture.