Kathleen Anne Kron (born 1956) is a retired biology professor from

Wake Forest University Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus, the un ...

. She is known for her research on ''

Ericaceae The Ericaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the heath or heather family, found most commonly in acidic and infertile growing conditions. The family is large, with c.4250 known species spread across 124 genera, making it th ...

'', a family of flowering plants.

Education

Kron received her bachelor's degree and her master's degree from

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...

in 1979 and 1982 respectively. She received her doctorate from the

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...

in 1987. In 2020, she retired as full professor from Wake Forest University. 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 Georg Christian Edler von Oldenburg Oeder (3 February 172828 January 1791) was a German-Danish botanist, medical doctor, economist and social reformer. His name is particularly associated with the initiation of the plate work ''Flora Danica''. ...

, whose work was amended by Kron and

Walter Stephen Judd Walter S. Judd (born 1951) is an American botanist and taxonomist, and distinguished professor in the Department of Botany, University of Florida since 2009. Career Judd attended Michigan State University (B.S. 1973, M.S. 1974) and Harvard Uni ...

. The standard author abbreviation Kron is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a

botanical name A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the '' International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants'' (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or Group epithets must conform to the ''Intern ...

Selected publications

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