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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.

Society Publications & Research

AJB Primer Notes & Protocols in the Plant Sciences

 

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

  »   BSA Merit Award
  »   Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award
  »   Darbaker Prize in Phychology
  »   Jeanette Siron Pelton Award in Experimental Plant Morphology

  »   2012 Donald R. Kaplan Memorial Lecture
           in Comparative Development

Items of Note

  »   2012 Anne S. Chatham Fellowship in Medicinal Botany
  »   2012 William L. Brown Research Award

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

  CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

» BSA MERIT Award
» C. E. Bessey Teaching Award
» Darbaker Prize in Phycology
» Jeanette Siron Pelton Award
» Young Botanist Award

» Corresponding Members

  BOTANY IN THE NEWS   Botany in the News RSS

» Jeanne Baret Finally Commemorated
    in Name of New Species
» Earliest Known Bug-Repellant
    Plant Bedding
» Tipping Plant Growth
» Why Buttercups Reflect
    Yellow on Chins
» Scientists Examine Toxicity
    of Medicinal Plants in Peru

Careers in Botany

» POSITIONS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
» Post a Position

» 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
    • How I became a Tropical Botanist
    • Reflections of a happy botanist
    • Why study botany?

» Celebrating Women in the Plant Sciences

     Botanical Society of America - find us on facebook       Botanical Society of America - find us on facebook
                        Botanical Society of America - find us on Flickr

     The Next Generation:
 Botany 2012

   July 7-11 in Columbus, Ohio

    Plan to be there...!!


 PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN  

» ANNOUNCEMENTS
» BOOKS NEEDING REVIEW

  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)
» AFS & Pteridological Section STA
» Vernon I Cheadle STA
» Triarch "Botanical Images" 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

» BOTANY - the students' perspective
    • Tanya, University of California
    • Patricia, University of Washington
    • Cheng-Chiang, Harvard University
    • Uromi, Yale University
    • Tatiana, University of Missouri
    • Janelle, Cornell University
    • Nathan, University of Maryland
    • Julia, University of British Columbia
    • Roxanne, University of Texas at Austin
    • Sarah, Case Western Reserve University
    • Cassie, University of Pittsburgh
    • Tracy, Northwestern University
    • Kyra, Washington University in St Louis
    • Wenchi, University of Michigan
    • Olofron, Cornell University
    • Laura, Dartmouth College
    • Jill, Pennsylvania State University
Planting Science Project
Women in Science American Journal of Botany Plant Science Bulletin Careers in Botany BSA Image Collection www.PlantingScience.org