Question

Famous plant anatomist Katherine Essau was born in:
A. UK
B. Ukraine
C. Australia
D. Austria

Answer 1

Hint: Katherine Essau was a German-American plant anatomist. She was very famous for her contribution in plant anatomy. She even wrote books on plant anatomy. She worked on the viruses which were found on the plants and their effects on the plants.

Complete answer:
To solve the given question, we must be well of who Katherine Essau was.

Katherine Essau was born in Dnipro which is in Ukraine. She grew up and studied agriculture in Moscow. From there her family shifted to Germany where she completed her study on agriculture. She worked at a company where she learned about the resistance of sugar beet towards the curly top virus.

She also wrote books named Plant Anatomy and Anatomy of Seed Plants. She continued to work and research viruses. She also worked on phloem. Phloem as we all know is a plant tissue which translocates the prepared food to different parts of the plant body.
 Her treatise The Phloem was also published.
Even after retiring from the University of California, she continued her research and published 162 articles and 5 books in total.

So, the correct option is option B.

Note: Apart from this, she was also elected as the President of the Botanical Society of America. She was also elected as the member of the National Academy of Sciences. She was also awarded with the National Medal of Science by the then President George Bush.