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Articles from the 2009 special issue, Darwin Bicentennial: The Abominable Mystery are now online.

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» Announcing a video contest! - Chlorofilms - plant videos on YouTube
Chlorofilms - plant videos on YouTube

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Welcome! We trust you are watching the changes in the world around you, and coming to understand the importance of science and plants. In combination, they are the keys to sustaining life on our planet - the air we breath, food we eat, fuel we use, and the core materials used in our medicines, clothing and in constructing our homes. Botany and the plant sciences are of critical importance in maintaining human life on our planet. If you are looking for exciting career options, please take a few minutes and browse through our web site. Today it is clear, we need more plant scientists and a better understanding of the importance of science.

 

Education & Learning

Middle and high school teachers, have you considered registering your students in the Spring 2009 PlantingScience session? Hands on, research-based science in the classroom, with a scientist mentor. Learn more about the program.

» BSA OUTREACH UPDATES & INFORMATION
» BSA extends an invitation to all K-12 Science Educators

Explore career and job options in the plant sciences through the Careers in Botany section and visit “BOTANY” - science from the students' perspective to find out more about the path to becoming a scientist.

Just for fun - BSA CARNIVOROUS PLANT COLLECTION, PARASITIC PLANT COLLECTION, ONLINE PLANT IMAGE COLLECTION.

What in the plant world...

     Adiantum macrophyllum Sw.

  SPECIAL NOTICES

Call for Nominations
» BSA Offices 2009 - President Elect & Secretary
» BSA CORRESPONDING MEMBERS

» BSA Merit Award
» BSA Young Botanist Awards
» Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award
» Darbaker Prize
» Grady L. Webster Publication Award

  UPDATES

» Developmental & Structural Section Request
» Paleobotanical Section December Newsletter
» Systematics Section Update

  STUDENTS' CORNER

Call for Proposals
» BSA Graduate Student Research Awards
» Genetics Section GSRA

Student Travel Awards
» Vernon I Cheadle STA
» Triarch (Conant) "Botanical Images" STA
» Developmental & Structural Section STA
» Ecological Section STA
» Genetics Section STA
» Mycological Section STA
» Phycological Section STA
» Phytochemical Section STA
» Pteridological Section STA

» Why should you join the Society as a student?

  BOTANY & MYCOLOGY 2009

» Botany & Mycology Web Page
» CALL FOR DISCUSSION SESSIONS - Now - 4/1/09

  NEWS from the Plant Community

» Announcing a video contest!
      Chlorofilms - plant videos on YouTube

  BOTANY IN THE NEWS   Botany in the News RSS

» Study shows 'plant communication'
» Yale Researchers Create an Epic
      Genetic Atlas of Rice
» Range research, genetic work spell hope
      for chestnut comeback
» Honour for University of York plant biologist
» Plant breeding could mean quicker cropping
» Gene-altered crop studies grow
» Return of the native:
      Bringing back the prairie
» Kew throws open doors to celebrate anniversary
» China completes world´s 1st
      plant chromosome atlas
» A Tree Grows in Panama
» Wanted: More science and math teachers
» Honeybees As Plant 'Bodyguards'
» Mexican growers plant seeds for food revolution
» Seeds of history will sprout anew
» Key to tackling global food crisis
» World's Chocolate Supply In Danger

 PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN  Book Reviews RSS

In Memoriam
» Dr. Steven Clemants 1954-2008

» Growing SEEDS of Sustainability at UBC
» ANNOUNCEMENTS
» BOOKS REVIEWED
» BOOKS FOR REVIEW
» POSITIONS AVAILABLE

 FEATURED RESOURCES

Botany without Borders
  Botany without Borders

» BOTANY - the students' perspective
    • Cheng-Chiang, Harvard University
    • Uromi, Yale University
» Careers in Botany
    • Botany as a career: Still having fun
    • A love of flowers and plants
» Economic Botany - How We Value Plants....
» Crime Scene Botanicals - Forensic Botany
» Trees, YOU and CO2 - Your Carbon Imprint
Planting Science Project
Women in Science American Journal of Botany Plant Science Bulletin Careers in Botany BSA Image Collection www.PlantingScience.org

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