Mary Rosalind Morris (M. Rosalind Morris) (May 8, 1920 – March 26, 2022) was a professor of plant cytogenetics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1947 to 1990. She was one of the first women to earn a doctoral degree in genetics and plant breeding from Cornell University, was the first female faculty member in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture at UNL, and was the first woman fellow of the American Society of Agronomy. Her pioneering work on "misbehaving chromosomes" in wheat cytogenetics was internationally recognized. In 1980, she served as president of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences. She was awarded a fellowship with the

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and a

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. She was born in Wales and immigrated with her family to

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, Canada as a child. She died on March 26, just before her 102nd birthday. Rosalindmorris

Selected publications

* Morris, Rosalind; ------ (1967). "The cytogenetics of wheat and its relatives." In K.S. Quisenberry; L.P. Reitz (eds). ''Wheat and Wheat Improvement.'' Madison, Wisconsin: American Society of Agronomy. pp. 19–87.

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1920 births 2022 deaths American women geneticists American geneticists Plant geneticists 20th-century American women scientists Welsh emigrants to the United States University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty Cornell University alumni Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science {{US-biologist-stub