Botanical Soceity of America
 

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Have you tried the latest feature on the American Journal of Botany website? AJB Advance Access - articles that have undergone complete peer review and copyediting, as well as full review by the authors, will be posted as soon as possible. Sign up for AJB "eTOCs" (electronic Table of Contents) to keep up with the latest published papers.

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Visitors

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.

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

 

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.

What in the plant world...

Linanthus parryae (sand blossoms) in bloom

  SPECIAL NOTICES

Call for Nominations
» BSA Merit Award
» Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award
» BSA Young Botanist Awards
» BSA Offices 2009 - President Elect & Secretary
» BSA CORRESPONDING MEMBERS

Call for Proposals
» BSA Graduate Student Research Awards

 PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN  Book Reviews RSS

» Donation of the Graham Palynological Collection
       to the Smithsonian Institution
» Eshbaugh Honored for Outreach Efforts
» Tom Croat, Plant Collector
       at the Missouri Botanical Garden
» ANNOUNCEMENTS
» BOOKS REVIEWED
» BOOKS FOR REVIEW
» POSITIONS AVAILABLE

  STUDENTS' CORNER

» Why should you join the Society as a student?

  UPDATES

» Paleobotanical Section December Newsletter

  BOTANY & MYCOLOGY 2009

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

  NEWS from the Plant Community

» Message to the community from the
      iPlant Board of Directors

  BOTANY IN THE NEWS   Botany in the News RSS

» Stanford researchers investigate how plants
      adapt to climate
» Crop productivity focus of research collaboration
» Mistletoe can be a friend or foe,
      depending on your point of view
» Insects being released to attack gall wasps
» New Mexico researchers hope to
      cultivate 'calming herb'
» U.S. strives for easier fuel corn engineering
» Italians in plant growth advance
» World’s Oldest Pot Stash Offered an Afterlife High
» Cranberry hybrids offer hope for local growers
» University Of Guam Scientists Complete
      National Science Foundation Research

 FEATURED RESOURCES

Botany without Borders
  Botany without Borders

» BOTANY - the students' perspective
    • Cheng-Chiang, Harvard University
    • Uromi, Yale University
    • Tatiana, University of Missouri
» Careers in Botany
    • How I became a Tropical Botanist
    • Botany as a career: Still having fun
    • Reflections of a happy botanist
    • Why study botany?

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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