Botanical Soceity of America
 

Members

Articles from the 2009 special issue, Darwin Bicentennial: The Abominable Mystery are now online.

» Please take a few minutes to renew your membership or join the BSA.
» Please take note of the Calls for Action listed below.
» Announcing a video contest! - Chlorofilms - plant videos on YouTube
Chlorofilms - plant videos on YouTube

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 keys to sustaining life on our planet - the air we breath, food we eat, fuel we use, and the core ingredients used in our medicines, clothing and in constructing our homes. Today it is clear; increasing our knowledge of, and appreciation for, Botany and the plant sciences are of critical importance in maintaining human life on our planet.

If you are looking for exciting career options or areas for study, please take a few minutes and browse through our web site. We think you’ll be excited by the opportunities throughout the plant sciences.

 

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.

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

What in the plant world...

     A ghostly Orobanche chilensis inflorescence emerges from the soil in Patagonia powered by nutrients stolen from nearby plants.

  SPECIAL NOTICES

» BSA January eNewsletter
» Purchase the 2009 Special Issue of the AJB
       Darwin Bicentennial: The Abominable Mystery

Call for Nominations
» BSA Offices 2009 - President Elect & Secretary
» BSA CORRESPONDING MEMBERS

» BSA Merit Award
» BSA Young Botanist Awards
» Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award
» Darbaker Prize
» Grady L. Webster Publication Award

  STUDENTS' CORNER

Call for Proposals
» BSA Graduate Student Research Awards
» Genetics Section GSRA

Student Travel Awards
» Vernon I Cheadle STA
» Triarch (Conant) "Botanical Images" STA
» Developmental & Structural Section STA
» Ecological Section STA
» Genetics Section STA
» Mycological Section STA
» Phycological Section STA
» Phytochemical Section STA
» Pteridological Section STA

» Why should you join the Society as a student?

  BOTANY & MYCOLOGY 2009

» Abstract Submissions
» Conference Registration
» Housing Information
» CALL FOR WORKSHOPS - Due 2/15/09
» CALL FOR DISCUSSION SESSIONS - Now - 4/1/09

  NEWS from the Plant Community

» La Selva Biological Station Request for Support
» Announcing a video contest!
      Chlorofilms - plant videos on YouTube

  BOTANY IN THE NEWS   Botany in the News RSS

» Legacy of botanist lives on at
      Boyce Thompson Arboretum
» Botany books plant ideas in cold times
» Poet opens spigots on cobtoethanol plant
» Berks native plant seed bank created
» Kahili ginger recalls royalty,
      but it is not a native
» Fungi collected by Darwin
      in new centre of mycology
» Asean adopts biodiversity indicators
      for preserving valuable resources
» Saving citrus...a cure may lurk in disease-resistant
      trees from China, and spinach
» UCR grad to open lab to study citrus pest
» Controversy Over Biomass Plant
      at Florida State Heats Up
» UWA agriculture moves up in the world
» Arcadia Biosciences Licenses
      Herbicide-Tolerant Wheat Technology

 PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN  Book Reviews RSS

In Memoriam
» Dr. Steven Clemants 1954-2008

» Growing SEEDS of Sustainability at UBC
» ANNOUNCEMENTS
» BOOKS REVIEWED
» BOOKS FOR REVIEW
» POSITIONS AVAILABLE

 FEATURED RESOURCES

Botany without Borders
  Botany without Borders

» BOTANY - the students' perspective
    • Cheng-Chiang, Harvard University
    • Uromi, Yale University
» Careers in Botany
    • Botany as a career: Still having fun
    • A love of flowers and plants
» 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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