Pamela Ronald
| Pamela C. Ronald | |
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Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak
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| Born | 1961 U.S. |
| Residence | U.S. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Plant pathology, Genetics |
| Institutions | Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy, Joint BioEnergy Institute |
| Alma mater | Reed College, UC Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Helen Stafford |
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Website http://www.cropgeneticsinnovation.org/ |
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Pamela C. Ronald (born 1961) is an American plant pathologist and geneticist. She is a professor in the Genome Center and the Department of Plant Pathology, and founding faculty director of the Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy (IFAL), all at the University of California, Davis. She also serves as Director of Grass Genetics at the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, California.
Her laboratory has genetically engineered rice for resistance to diseases and tolerance to flooding, which are serious problems of rice crops in Asia and Africa. Ronald's research has been published in Science, Nature and other leading peer-reviewed scientific journals, and has also been featured in The New York Times,Organic Gardening Magazine,Forbes Magazine,The Wall Street Journal, The Progressive Farmer, CNN,Discover Magazine, The Scientist,Popular Mechanics, Bill Gates blog, National Public Radio and National Geographic.
Pamela Ronald was born in 1961 to Patricia (née Fobes) and Robert Ronald of San Mateo, California. Robert Ronald, a Jewish refugee who was born Robert Rosenthal, wrote a memoir entitled "Last Train to Freedom". From an early age, Ronald spent time backpacking in the Sierra Nevada wilderness, sparking her love for plant biology.
As a student at Reed College with Helen Stafford (1922–2011), Ronald became intrigued by the interactions of plants with other organisms. For her senior thesis, she studied the recolonization of Mt. St Helens. Ronald received a B.A. in Biology from Reed College in 1982.
She went on to earn an M.A. in Biology from Stanford University in 1984 and an M.S. from Uppsala University, Sweden in plant physiology in 1985. As a Fulbright Scholar in Sweden she visited Nils Fries and studied how plants interact with mycorrhizal fungi.
As a graduate student at UC Berkeley, she began to study plant-bacterial interactions in the laboratory of Brian Staskawicz, working with peppers and tomatoes. Realizing that rice is the biggest food staple in the world, she decided to study rice, determining her future career. She received her Ph.D. in molecular and physiological plant biology in 1990. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University from 1990–1992 in the laboratory of Steven Tanksley.
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