Patricia G. Gensel

Patricia G. Gensel
Born	Patricia Gabbey Gensel (1944-03-18)March 18, 1944 Buffalo, New York, United States
Nationality	American
Education	Hope College
Occupation(s)	botanist, paleobotanist
Known for	research on Paleozoic plants

Patricia Gabbey Gensel (born March 18, 1944) is an American botanist and paleobotanist. ^{[1] [2]}

Life

Gensel was born in Buffalo, New York, and attended Hope College in Holland, Michigan, earning a B.A. in 1966. ^[3] She obtained her Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Connecticut. Until her retirement in 2024, Gensel was on the faculty of the Biology Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ^[2]

Gensel is noted for her research on Paleozoic plants. ^[4] She served as president of the Botanical Society of America for 2000–2001. ^[5] Gensel is the namesake of the genus, Genselia Knaus, which consists of four species of early Carboniferous plants found in the Pocono and Price Formations in the Appalachian Basin of North America. ^[6]

Publications

• Gensel, Patricia G.; Andrews, Henry N., eds. (1984). Plant Life in the Devonian. New York: Praeger. ISBN   978-0030620027.
• Bourque, Pierre-André; Desbiens, Sylvain; Gensel, Patricia G., eds. (2005). Silurian-Devonian biota and paleoenvironments of Gaspé Peninsula and northern New Brunswick. Halifax, Nova Scotia: North American Paleontological Convention.
• Gensel, Patricia G.; Edwards, Dianne, eds. (2000). Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN   978-0231111614.
• Gastaldo RA, Gensel PG, Glasspool IJ, Hinds SJ, King OA, McLean D, Park AF, Stimson MR, Stonesifer T. (2024) Enigmatic fossil plants with three-dimensional, arborescent-growth architecture from the earliest Carboniferous of New Brunswick, Canada. Curr Biol. 2024 Feb 26;34(4):781-792.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.011. Epub 2024 Feb 2. PMID: 38309270

References

1. "HUH - Databases - Botanist Search".
2. "Patricia G. Gensel". April 28, 2011.
3. "Gensel, Patricia Gabbey". Who's Who of American Women, 1983-1984. Marquis Who's Who. 1983. p. 284. ISBN   978-0-8379-0413-9.
4. "Labs - Patricia G. Gensel". Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
5. "Botany.org (pdf)" (PDF). botany.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 11, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
6. Knaus, Margaret Jane (1995). "The Species of the Early Carboniferous Fossil Plant Genus Genselia". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 156 (1): 61–92. doi:10.1086/297230. JSTOR   2474900. S2CID   83629753.

The standard author abbreviation Gensel is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. ^[1]

1. International Plant Names Index. Gensel.