Knapp has a B.A. in botany from Pomona College (1978) and a Ph.D. from Cornell University (1986). Her main research interest is "the megadiverse genus Solanum, which contains potatoes, tomatoes and eggplants and is one of only a handful of flowering plant genera with more than 1000 species".
The botanist SandraKnapp has noted how Buffon’s prose was “so purple that the ideas themselves are almost hidden,” his text reading “more like a romantic novel than a dry scientific treatise.” ...
