Dr Vicki Chandler
American geneticist
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Alison Specht
Associate Professor in the School of Environmental Science and Management at Southern Cross University in Australia.
Christine Beveridge
Christine Beveridge is internationally recognised for her research into the hormonal control of plant development and shoot architecture, of particular importance to the agricultural and horticultural industries. Her research led to the discovery of the hormone strigolactone that is involved in nutrient uptake, shoot branching and root development.
Dr Anna M G Koltunow
Anna Koltunow is a plant physiologist whose contributions to understanding plant reproduction by uncovering mechanisms regulating fruit and seed formation via sexual and asexual (apomictic) pathways are being used in developing countries to improve crop production.
Anne Elizabeth Ashford
Australian educator and botanist
Cecily Fearnley
Cecily Lydia Fearnley was awarded the Queensland Natural History Award in 2001 and has published several popular books on the flora and fauna of Noosa and surrounding areas.
Celia Rosser
Celia Rosser is recognised as one of the world’s best botanical artists, and for having painted all the species of one genus, Banksia.
Regina Olson Hughes
American botanical illustrator
Beth Gott
Australian plant physiologist and ethnobotanist
Annie Bellew McCann
Annie McCann collected botanical specimens in a wide region in the Victorian highlands; the National Herbarium of Victoria holds over 200 of her specimens. McCann was an accomplished painter and published a book of poems in 1888.