Auguste Adolphe Lucien Trécul (1818–96)

French botanist. Appointed by the Muséum d’histoire naturelle and the French Ministry of Agriculture to study nutrition and collect plants in the United States, 1848–50. Continued his researches into the anatomy, physiology, and organogeny of plants. His conclusions on fermentation were contrary to those of Louis Pasteur, and caused controversy at the Académie des sciences in 1866. Awarded the Légion d’honneur, 1867.