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Botany, also called plant science or phytology, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially their anatomy, taxonomy, and ecology. [1] A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field.
Paul Dietrich Giseke was a student and friend of Linnaeus, who kept notes on Linnaeus' lectures and published them after Linnaeus' death as Praelectiones in ordines naturales plantarum (1792). (1792) Praelectiones in ordines naturales plantarum [4] published by Benj. Gottl. Hoffmanni. (1907) Föreläsningar öfver stenriket published by C ...
The Vedas represent some of the oldest historical records available (1500 – 500 BC) and they list the names of nearly 250 kinds of birds besides many other notes on various other fauna and flora. [5] In the vedic texts, Aryavarta, the land of the Aryans, was considered to be co-terminous with the range of the blackbuck.
Notes Bryophyta: Mosses approx. 25,000 No vascular system, distinctive vegetative structures, spores produced for reproduction require damp conditions for survival, many of them are important to the early stages of soil formation. Pteridophyta: Ferns approx. 13,000 Identifiable root, leaf and stem systems but still produce spores instead of seed.
A tropical plant community on Diego Garcia Rangeland monitoring using Parker 3-step Method, Okanagan Washington 2002. Plant ecology is a subdiscipline of ecology that studies the distribution and abundance of plants, the effects of environmental factors upon the abundance of plants, and the interactions among plants and between plants and other organisms. [1]
Botanical Society of America: What is Botany? Science & Plants for Schools; Teaching Documents about Botany Teaching documents, lecture; Why study Plants? Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge; Flora and other plant catalogs or databases. The Virtual Library of Botany
Phytochemistry is the study of phytochemicals, which are chemicals derived from plants.Phytochemists strive to describe the structures of the large number of secondary metabolites found in plants, the functions of these compounds in human and plant biology, and the biosynthesis of these compounds.
Botany is a natural science concerned with the study of plants.The main branches of botany (also referred to as "plant science") are commonly divided into three groups: core topics, concerned with the study of the fundamental natural phenomena and processes of plant life, the classification and description of plant diversity; applied topics which study the ways in which plants may be used for ...