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Smithers Hughes</b> (June 8, 1905 – December 19, 1987) was an American botanist who developed improved strains of the <a href="/wiki/Valencia_orange" title="Valencia orange">Valencia orange</a>, a sweet orange that is grown in the United States mainly for the production of commercial orange juice.<sup id="cite_ref-fcsw_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fcsw-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was the first woman inducted into the Florida Agricultural Hall of Fame<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was also named to the <a href="/wiki/Florida_Women%27s_Hall_of_Fame" title="Florida Women's Hall of Fame">Florida Women's Hall of Fame</a><sup id="cite_ref-fcsw_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fcsw-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame.<sup id="cite_ref-fchf_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fchf-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lena_B._Smithers_Hughes&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CSIRO_ScienceImage_2313_Valencia_Oranges.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/CSIRO_ScienceImage_2313_Valencia_Oranges.jpg/220px-CSIRO_ScienceImage_2313_Valencia_Oranges.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/CSIRO_ScienceImage_2313_Valencia_Oranges.jpg/330px-CSIRO_ScienceImage_2313_Valencia_Oranges.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/CSIRO_ScienceImage_2313_Valencia_Oranges.jpg/440px-CSIRO_ScienceImage_2313_Valencia_Oranges.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="1611" /></a><figcaption>Valencia oranges on the tree</figcaption></figure> <p>Lena B. Smithers was born June 8, 1905, in <a href="/wiki/Elgin,_Tennessee" title="Elgin, Tennessee">Elgin, Tennessee</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She earned degrees from both the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Tennessee" title="University of Tennessee">University of Tennessee</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wayne_State_University" title="Wayne State University">Wayne State University</a>, Michigan, after which she taught school for a time.<sup id="cite_ref-fcsw_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fcsw-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-fchf_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fchf-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1931, she and her husband Ausker Hughes, a chemist, moved to <a href="/wiki/Lake_County,_Florida" title="Lake County, Florida">Lake County, Florida</a>, where they both worked on citrus research.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1935, they had 75 acres of test groves under production.<sup id="cite_ref-loh_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loh-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Together they developed a number of new orange strains that are precursors of widely planted present-day varieties, working especially with <a href="/wiki/Nucellar_embryony" title="Nucellar embryony">nucellar</a> seedlings of Parson Brown and Valencia oranges.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-fchf_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fchf-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Ausker died in 1944, Hughes continued the breeding research on her own, eventually settling near Orlando in <a href="/wiki/Orange_County,_Florida" title="Orange County, Florida">Orange County</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This research led to improved, virus-free varieties of the Valencia orange, which had originally been developed by American agronomist <a href="/wiki/William_Wolfskill" title="William Wolfskill">William Wolfskill</a> in the mid-19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-fcsw_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fcsw-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-swanson_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swanson-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These virus-free strains were used to produce budwood for growers with such success that by 1983, her Hughes Valencia bud line made up some 60 percent of all Valencia oranges propagated for cultivation in Florida.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her work on Valencia oranges has been called "one of the most significant citrus developments" to originate in Orange County, then one of the nation's major orange-growing regions.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was the first woman member of the Orange County Citrus Extension Advisory Committee—serving ten years in that capacity—and likewise the first woman member of the Growers Administrative Committee.<sup id="cite_ref-fchf_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fchf-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1960, using money from sales of her Hughes Valencia budwood, Hughes set up the Hughes Memorial Foundation to provide horticulture scholarships at both the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Florida" title="University of Florida">University of Florida</a> and <a href="/wiki/Florida_Southern_College" title="Florida Southern College">Florida Southern College</a> in Lakeland.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame in 1984<sup id="cite_ref-fcsw_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fcsw-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 1986 became the first woman named to the Florida Agricultural Hall of Fame.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a pair of bad winter freezes in 1984 and 1985, Hughes's last 150 acres of oranges were wiped out and she decided not to replant, knowing that it would take ten years before she could turn a profit and suspecting she did not have that much time left.<sup id="cite_ref-loh_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-loh-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She died on December 19, 1987.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Five years later she was inducted into the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame.<sup id="cite_ref-fchf_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fchf-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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