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We are pleased to announce the Special Libraries Association has selected the American Journal of Botany as one of the 10 most influential journals of the past 100 years in the field of biology and medicine. (read more)

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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BOTANY & MYCOLOGY 2009

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» Housing Information
» View Submitted Abstracts

2009 BSA Election Results

2009 BSA Award Notices

Education & Learning

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

What in the plant world

     Dryopteris intermedia displays its sori and their spore-containing sporangia
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Just for fun - BSA CARNIVOROUS PLANT COLLECTION, PARASITIC PLANT COLLECTION, ONLINE PLANT IMAGE COLLECTION. 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.

  SPECIAL NOTICES

» Note from BSA President Karl Niklas
» Purchase the 2009 Special Issue of the AJB
       Darwin Bicentennial: The Abominable Mystery
» AIBS Legislative Action Center

 PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN  Book Reviews RSS

In Memoriam
» Dr. Bernard O. (Bernie) Phinney
» Dr. Peter Robert Bell
» Dr. William Ray (Bill) Bowen

» Women in Science Luncheon and Discussion
» BSA Science Education News and Notes
» Personalia
» Award Opportunities
» Symposia, Conferences, Meetings
» Other News
» Reports and Reviews
» ANNOUNCEMENTS
» RECENTLY REVIEWED BOOKS
» BOOKS NEEDING REVIEW
» POSITIONS AVAILABLE

  STUDENTS' CORNER

» Why should you join the Society as a student?

  NEWS from the PLANT COMMUNITY

» 2009 ASPT Asa Gray Award recipient—Alan Graham
» 2009 ASPT Peter Raven Award recipient—Sandra Knapp
» NSF/Gates Foundation Program Solicitation: Basic
    Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD)
» The results are in! $8,350 in prizes awarded
Chlorofilms - plant videos on YouTube

     Botanical Society of America - find us on facebook

  BOTANY IN THE NEWS   Botany in the News RSS

» Missouri Botanical Garden celebrates 150th anniversary
» Advance In Understanding Cellulose Synthesis
» Part memoir, part tale of a biodiversity crisis-
      Waking Up in Eden
» Global Biosphere Images Reveal Changes in Plant Growth
» Students help inventory Big Thicket flora, fauna
» 'Super cassava' to enter field trials in Nigeria
» Huntington Botanical Garden's corpse flower
» Intensive Program in Biorenewables
      Shows Students the Action
» Scientists Seek Easier Access to Seed Banks
» Food of the Future to Be More Diverse?
» Global Warming Increasing The Dispersal
      Of Flora In Northern Forests
» National Science Foundation to fund
      "green scholarships" at SIUC
» Biodiversity crashing Australia-wide
» Threats to plant biodiversity discussed

 FEATURED RESOURCES

 BSA members' PLANT VIDEOS online
  Botany without Borders

» BOTANY - the students' perspective
    • Cheng-Chiang, Harvard University
    • Uromi, Yale University
    • Tatiana, University of Missouri
    • Janelle, Cornell University
» Careers in Botany
    • A love of flowers and plants
    • How I became a Tropical Botanist
    • Reflections of a happy botanist
    • Why study botany?

» 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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