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botany

Also known as plant science, plant sciences, plant biology, phytology, phytobiology, botanical science

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Botany is an academic discipline and branch of science that serves as a subclass of biology. It is the study of plants and includes subfields such as plant morphology, plant reproduction, plant physiology, and plant genetics. The field is practiced by botanists and botanical collectors.

The subject is described by sources including the New International Encyclopedia, the Jewish Encyclopedia, and the Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language. It is referenced by 10,427 other encyclopedia articles and has a PubMed count of 97,767. The topic is maintained by WikiProject Plants, WikiProject Biology, and WikiProject Environment.

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Research

97,767 papers

Forensic botany: who?, how?, where?, when?ReviewScience & justice : journal of the Forensic Science Society · 2023Kasprzyk IDOI: 10.1016/j.scijus.2023.01.002
Botany without bias.Nature plants · 2020DOI: 10.1038/s41477-020-00777-x
Twenty-first century botany.Nature plants · 2017DOI: 10.1038/s41477-017-0018-4
The End of Botany.Trends in plant science · 2020Crisci JV, Katinas L, Apodaca MJ et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.09.012
Search strategies.Nature plants · 2021DOI: 10.1038/s41477-021-00937-7
Editorial: Introducing Commentaries to Annals of Botany.Annals of botany · 2019Heslop-Harrison PDOI: 10.1093/aob/mcz090
Botany and medicine.Rhode Island medical journal · 1990Aronson SM
Decolonizing Botany: Indonesia, UNESCO, and the Making of a Global Science.Journal of the history of biology · 2023Goss ADOI: 10.1007/s10739-023-09734-8

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Encyclopedic overview

27 sections

Contents

Etymology
History
Early botany
Early modern botany
Late modern botany
Branches of botany
Scope and importance
Human nutrition
Plant biochemistry
Medicine and materials
Plant ecology
Plants, climate and environmental change
Genetics
Molecular genetics
Epigenetics
Plant evolution
Plant physiology
Plant hormones
Plant anatomy and morphology
Systematic botany
Symbols
See also
Notes
References
Citations
Sources
External links

Botany, also called phytology or plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology that studies plants, especially their anatomy, taxonomy, and ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who specialises in this field. "Plant" and "botany" may be defined more narrowly to include only land plants and their study, which is also known as phytology. Phytologists or botanists (in the strict sense) study approximately 410,000 species of land plants, including some 391,000 species of vascular plants (of which approximately 369,000 are flowering plants) and approximately 20,000 bryophytes.

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