Dr. Kathleen A. Kron

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Education
  • Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A., 1987
  • M.S., Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A., 1982
  • B.S., Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A., 1979

Dr. Kathleen Kron is a North American botanist and professor at Wake Forest University. Her research interest is the phylogenetic relationships of flowering plants. Her lab uses molecular and morphological data to study the evolution of members of the blueberry family (Ericaceae) and the buckwheat family (Polygonaceae).

Relevant to the biota of the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Kron has published the following:

Bremer, K., M. W. Chase, P. F. Stevens, A. Anderberg, A. Backlund, B. Bremer, B. Briggs, P. K. Endress, M. F. Fay, P. Goldblatt, M. H. G. Gustafsson, S. B .Hoot, W. S. Judd, M. Källersjö, E. A. Kellogg, K. A. Kron, D. H. Les, C. M. Morton, D. L. Nickrent, R. G. Olmstead, R. A. Price, C. J. Quinn, J. E. Rodman, P. J. Rudall, V. Savolainen, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, K. J. Sytsma, and M. Thulin (The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group). 1998. An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: 531–553.

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