Botany

Botany, also called plant science(s) or plant biology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who specializes in this field of study. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek word βοτάνη (botanē) meaning "pasture", "grass", or "fodder"; βοτάνη is in turn derived from βόσκειν (boskein), "to feed" or "to graze". Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanical Congress. Nowadays, botanists study approximately 400,000 species of living organisms of which some 260,000 species are vascular plants and about 248,000 are flowering plants.

Botany originated in prehistory as herbalism with the efforts of early humans to identify – and later cultivate – edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, making it one of the oldest branches of science. Medieval physic gardens, often attached to monasteries, contained plants of medical importance. They were forerunners of the first botanical gardens attached to universities, founded from the 1540s onwards. One of the earliest was the Padua botanical garden. These gardens facilitated the academic study of plants. Efforts to catalogue and describe their collections were the beginnings of plant taxonomy, and led in 1753 to the binomial system of Carl Linnaeus that remains in use to this day.

Botany (journal)

Botany is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that has been published since 1951 by NRC Research Press. It was established in 1951 as Canadian Journal of Botany, the continuation of Canadian Journal of Research, Section C: Botanical Sciences. It features research articles and notes in all segments of botany.

Botany was selected as one of the DBIO 100, the 100 most influential journals in biology and medicine over the last 100 years, as voted by the BioMedical & Life Sciences Division of the Special Libraries Association on the occasion of its centennial.

The editor is Christian Lacroix (University of Prince Edward Island).

References

External links

  • Official website

  • Botany (disambiguation)

    Botany is the scientific study of plant life.

    Botany may also refer to:

    Places

  • Botany, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia
  • Boťany, a village in Slovakia
  • Botany, New Zealand, a suburb in Auckland, New Zealand
  • Botany (New Zealand electorate), a New Zealand Parliamentary electoral district
  • Music

  • Botany Boyz, a rap crew from Houston, United States
  • Botanist (band), a black metal project
  • Other uses

  • Botany 500, a manufacturer of men's clothing
  • Botany, a scientific journal
  • See also

  • Botany Bay (disambiguation)
  • Botanique (disambiguation)
  • Podcasts:

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