Kathleen Anne Kron
American botanist and biology professor who studied Ericaceae
About Kathleen Anne Kron
Born 1956. Kathleen Anne Kron is an American botanist, biologist and university teacher.
Kathleen Anne Kron (born 1956) is a retired biology professor from Wake Forest University. She is known for her research on Ericaceae, a family of flowering plants.
Education Kron received her bachelor's degree and her master's degree from Michigan State University in 1979 and 1982 respectively. She received her doctorate from the University of Florida in 1987.
Kron ran a lab concerned with the large-scale relationships between flowering plants using Ericaceae as a model organism. In 2011, Rhododendron kroniae Craven, was named in honor of Kron and her work defining the evolutionary relationships within Ericaceae. Rhododendron groenlandicum (Oeder) Kron & Judd is named after Georg Christian Oeder, whose work was amended by Kron and Walter Stephen Judd.
The standard author abbreviation Kron is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
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American botanist and biology professor who studied Ericaceae (1956 - )
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