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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.
A sign for Crassula rupestris at the University of Helsinki Botanical Garden. The roots for the binomial name are crassus (thick, fat) and rupestris (living on cliffs or rocks) This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the ...
Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society: Torrey Botanical Society: 1973–present: English: 4 issues per year Kew Bulletin: Springer Science+Business Media and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: 1887–present English 4 issues per year New Journal of Botany: Taylor & Francis and Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland: 1949–2017: English: 3 issues ...
Naturex is a botanicals company that produces and sells plant extracts to the food industry for flavoring, coloring, or preservative purposes. [1] The company is based in Avignon, France with offices and production facilities across Europe, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Morocco, and India.
The company specializes in science materials for traditional K-12/college classrooms and labs. Its business units include Carolina® Curriculum, offering K-8 hands-on science kits; Carolina Science Online®, an e-learning portal with digital resources; and Carolina Distance Learning®, offering college-level lab kits for distance education.
The society was first established in 1893 as an outgrowth from the Botanical Club of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at a meeting in Rochester, New York, on August 22, 1892. [5] The organizing principles of the society were the enhancement of the study of plants in North America and to professionalize such efforts. [6]
The herbarium is a resource for botanical research in taxonomy, conservation, ecology, and climate science. Its specimens offer data that aid in tracking environmental changes, studying plant diseases , and identifying new species, as demonstrated by the 2022 discovery of Victoria boliviana , the world's largest water lily species, which had ...
Some of the traditional tools of cultivated plant taxonomy including: microscope, camera, flowers and book to assist identification. Cultivated plant taxonomy is the study of the theory and practice of the science that identifies, describes, classifies, and names cultigens—those plants whose origin or selection is primarily due to intentional human activity.