British geneticist and plant anatomist Edith Rebecca Saunders was born #OTD in 1865.

She is best as known as the "Mother of British Plant Genetics": she played an active role in the re-discovery of Mendel's laws of heredity, the understanding of trait inheritance in plants. She also developed extensive work on flower anatomy, particularly focusing on the gynoecia, the female reproductive organs of flowers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Rebecca_Saunders

#botanics #genetics #womeninSTEM