Premise: 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.
Hypothesis: Ronald is Pamela's maiden name.