Kathleen Anne Kron

Kathleen Anne Kron (born 1956)^[1] is a retired biology professor from Wake Forest University. She is known for her research on Ericaceae, a family of flowering plants.

Kathleen Anne Kron
Born	1956 (age 68–69)
Nationality	American
Occupation	Professor
Academic background
Education	Michigan State University
Alma mater	University of Florida
Thesis	A taxonomic revision of Rhododendron L. section Pentanthera g. don (Ericaceae) (1987)
Academic work
Discipline	Biology
Sub-discipline	Botany
Institutions	Wake Forest University
Main interests	Large-scale relationships between flowering plants

Education

Kron received her bachelor's degree and her master's degree from Michigan State University in 1979 and 1982 respectively.^[2] She received her doctorate from the University of Florida in 1987.^[2] In 2020, she retired as full professor from Wake Forest University.^[3]

Kron ran a lab concerned with the large-scale relationships between flowering plants using Ericaceae as a model organism.^[4] In 2011, Rhododendron kroniae Craven, was named in honor of Kron and her work defining the evolutionary relationships within Ericaceae.^[5] Rhododendron groenlandicum (Oeder) Kron & Judd is named after Georg Christian Oeder, whose work was amended by Kron and Walter Stephen Judd.^[6]

The standard author abbreviation Kron is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[7]

Selected publications

• Kron, K. A.; Judd, W. S.; Stevens, P. F.; Crayn, D. M.; Anderberg, A. A.; Gadek, P. A.; Quinn, C. J.; Luteyn, J. L. (2002). "Phylogenetic Classification of Ericaceae: Molecular and Morphological Evidence". The Botanical Review. 68 (3): 335–423. doi:10.1663/0006-8101(2002)068[0335:PCOEMA]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0006-8101. S2CID 35699816.
• Chase, Mark W.; Soltis, Douglas E.; Olmstead, Richard G.; Morgan, David; Les, Donald H.; Mishler, Brent D.; Duvall, Melvin R.; Price, Robert A.; Hills, Harold G.; Qiu, Yin-Long; Kron, Kathleen A. (1993). "Phylogenetics of Seed Plants: An Analysis of Nucleotide Sequences from the Plastid Gene rbcL" (PDF). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 80 (3): 528. doi:10.2307/2399846. JSTOR 2399846.
• Kron, Kathleen A.; Chase, Mark W. (1993). "Systematics of the Ericaceae, Empetraceae, Epacridaceae and Related Taxa Based Upon rbcL Sequence Data". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 80 (3): 735. doi:10.2307/2399857. JSTOR 2399857.