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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.
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 ...
Botanical Studies is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering all aspects of botany. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media and affiliated with the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology (Academia Sinica, Taiwan). The editors-in-chief is Yu-Ming Ju (Academia Sinica).
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 ...
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]
Following the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew launched Plants of the World Online in March 2017 with the goal of creating an exhaustive online database of all seed-bearing plants worldwide. [1] [2] The initial focus was on tropical African flora, particularly flora Zambesiaca, flora of West and East Tropical ...
This glossary of botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general. Terms of plant morphology are included here as well as at the more specific Glossary of plant morphology and Glossary of leaf morphology .
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open-access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.BHL operates as a worldwide consortium of natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries working together to address this challenge by digitizing the natural history literature held in their collections and making it freely available for open ...