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The Botanical Society of America is a membership society whose mission is to: promote botany, the field of basic science dealing with the study and inquiry into the form, function, development, diversity, reproduction, evolution, and uses of plants and their interactions within the biosphere.

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Member Spotlight

»Jon Giddens, University of Oklahoma
Meet Jon Giddens, a BSA student member for two years who works on molecular systematics. Jon has been instrumental in starting a BSA Student Chapter at the University of Oklahoma. "What I value most about BSA is being part of a like-minded community of botanists that puts so much focus on students and the future of the botanical field."
Read about Jon on his BSA Community Page

Call for Nominations & Applications

  »   BSA Merit Award
  »   Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award
  »   Young Botanist Award
  »   BSA Corresponding Members

  »   Darbaker Prize in Phycology
  »   Jeanette Siron Pelton Award in Experimental Plant Morphology

  »   Student Research & Travel Awards

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY *Article Highlights*

 » Who invented the dichotomous key? Richard Waller’s watercolors of the herbs of Britain
(Article by Lawrence Griffing looks at using a key composed of dichotomous choices for aiding identification)
 » A FREE preview from the upcoming Next-Generation Sequencing Special Issue
(Genomics of Compositae weeds: EST libraries, microarrays, and evidence of introgression)—by by Rieseberg et al
 » Do long-lived crops differ from annual crops in their genetic response to human domestication?
(Perennial crops have significant changes in their reproductive modes yet are genetically closer to their wild counterparts than annuals)—by Miller and Gross

 PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN  

» ANNOUNCEMENTS
» BOOKS NEEDING REVIEW

  BOTANY IN THE NEWS   Botany in the News RSS

» Newly discovered carnivorous plant
    devours underground worms
» Jeanne Baret Finally Commemorated
    in Name of New Species
» Earliest Known Bug-Repellant
    Plant Bedding
» Tipping Plant Growth
» Why Buttercups Reflect
    Yellow on Chins

Careers in Botany

» POSITIONS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
» Post a Position

» Celebrating Women in the Plant Sciences

» Some Careers Ideas
    • An Adventure - this is my job!
    • International Journey to a Botany Career
    • Botany as a career: Still having fun
    • A love of flowers and plants

» BOTANY - the students' perspective
    • Tanya, University of California
    • Patricia, University of Washington
    • Cheng-Chiang, Harvard University
    • Uromi, Yale University
    • Tatiana, University of Missouri

     The Next Generation:
 Botany 2012

   July 7-11 in Columbus, Ohio

    Plan to be there...!!

  BOTANY BLOGS   

» Adventures of a Phytochemist
» Moss Plants and More
» The Phytophactor
» Uncommon Ground
» No seeds, no fruits, no flowers: no problem.

  IDEAS WORTH SPREADING (TED)   

» The roots of plant intelligence
» Why we're storing billions of seeds
» Nalini Nadkarni on conserving the canopy
» Why can't we grow new energy?
» World's oldest living things

 FEATURED BSA RESOURCES

» BSA members' PLANT VIDEOS online
  

» Economic Botany - How We Value Plants....
» Crime Scene Botanicals - Forensic Botany

  STUDENTS' CORNER

Call for Proposals - Student Research Awards
Proposals Due March 15

» BSA Graduate Student Research Awards
» BSA Undergraduate Student Research Awards
» Genetics Section GSRA

Student Travel Awards
Applications/Proposals Due April 10

(moved out beyond abstract submissions)
» Vernon I Cheadle STA
» Triarch "Botanical Images" STA

» AFS & Pteridological Section STA
» Developmental & Structural Section STA
» Ecological Section STA
» Genetics Section STA
» Mycological Section STA
» Phycological Section STA
» Phytochemical Section STA

» Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program

» Why should you join the Society as a student?
» NEW MEMBERS - Connecting with the BSA


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