Botanists
Hell yeah I'm a botanist! Fear my botany powers ― Andy Weir, The Martian
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I Am a Botanist (And No, I Don’t Grow Marijuana)
When I tell people that I make my living in botany, they often guess at what that means. Some have no sense for the word. Others imagine me on slow strolls through meadows, sniffing wildflowers and communing with songbirds.
I also often get asked if being a botanist means that I grow marijuana.
I have been asked this by folks of all ages and statuses, from “Joe Publics” on adjacent barstools to potential donors being courted at fundraising events. Once, on an airplane, I was drawn into a long conversation with a military veteran about the efficiency of hydroponics. Another time I was invited to jump in on a land deal so that we (my potential business partner and I) could start…
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Big Pharma's Real Roots
There was a great interest in the world and that extended to the plant world, so these universities built medical faculties, primarily of botanists. And in order to study the medicine of their era in a scientific way they began these collections.
Could Ancient Remedies Hold the Answer to the Looming Antibiotics Crisis?
One researcher thinks the drugs of the future might come from the past: botanical treatments long overlooked by Western medicine.
Exploring the Wild World of Botany
Astrophysicists get to study the whole wide universe. Evolutionary biologists get to study the very origins of life. Botanists, they get…plants. It’s a humble field. In Harry Potter terms, it’s like skipping the fun Hogwarts classes—Dark Arts, Charms, Care of Magical Animals—in favor of Herbology.
Growing Organs on Apples
The future of regenerative medicine may be plants.
Wells Fargo Encourages Budding Actors To Become Botanists And Then Apologizes
The message here is, of course, that the future is science. That becoming a ballerina or an actor is a dreamscape fairytale that has no place in a real world of cold hard cash and sciencey-sounding things like botany.
What can I do with a major in Botany?
As the population of people on earth continues to explode, the need to produce more productive crops and more nutritious foods will depend on the talents of botanists. Because all people use resources and produce wastes, there will also be increasing pressures on the environment with a need for botanists to help solve problems with air, water, and soil pollution and to preserve the ecosystems around the globe. The world is constantly changing, but the need for future botanists remains strong.
Why Plants Are (Usually) Better Than Drugs
I have always been fascinated by the difference between plants and the drugs that are isolated from them. This goes back to my student days at Harvard in the 1960s, where I received my undergraduate degree in botany, and then went on to medical school. It’s rare — too rare, I have to say — for botanists to become doctors. The experience gave me a unique perspective on health and medicine.
I Am a Botanist (And No, I Don’t Grow Marijuana)
My field, botany, is a rigorous and exciting scientific discipline. It is broad and inclusive, encompassing the study of everything related to the plant kingdom, from the workings of cells and DNA to the role of plants as drivers of the planet’s ecosystem and providers of global food supplies.
A Wandering Botanist
Tales of a lover of plants, history and travel.
Adventures in Fern Biology
I research reticulate evolutionary processes, including hybridization and polyploidy, and their effects on plant systematics, genomics, and physiological ecology. I'm particularly interested in the seed-free vascular plants, ferns and lycophytes.
Awkward Botany
My name is Daniel, and I am a bona fide plant nerd. I grow plants, study plants, work with plants, and write about plants. This blog will document my plant obsession. It is for the equally plant obsessed, as well as for the plant interested and the plant curious.
Botany Blog
Plants of the Northeastern U.S.
Botany Professor
Essays, botanical travelogues, and other resources provided for students, instructors and anyone else seeking a deeper understanding of the nature of plants.
Brilliant Botany
Brilliant Botany began as a blog in November of 2011. It focused on photographs, plant facts, and plant ID. It has since expanded to include a website, social media presence and, as of 2013, a YouTube series. Brilliant Botany is intended as a resource for anyone interested in plants, and a means for building community
Get Your Botany On!
Multiple bloggers.
Go Botany
Discover thousands of New England plants.
Medicine Hunter
The three-fold purpose of Medicine Hunter Inc. is to promote natural, plant-based medicines, to protect the natural environment, and to support indigenous cultures.
Moss Plants and More
Commentary on all things Bryological.
Pl@ntNet
Pl@ntNet is a tool to help to identify plants with pictures. It is organize in different databases. Please choose the one corresponding to your location.
Plant Medicine Track
The track includes three dimensions: (1) the way social scientists and historians treat the history of psychiatry and healing, especially as it intersects with plant medicines; (2) a reflection about the substances themselves, and their effects on bodies; and (3) traditional healing, as it connects back to our understanding of drugs and of psychiatry - Bia Labate
ScienceDaily
Your source for the latest research news.
The Botanical Hiker
Adventures in hiking, wild foods, herbal medicine, and gratitude.
The Botanist in the Kitchen
Where botany meets the cutting board.
The Phytophactor
A plant pundit comments on plants, the foibles and fun of academic life, and other things of interest.
The Plant Press
The Plant Press is the quarterly newsletter from the Department of Botany and the U.S. National Herbarium. The purpose of The Plant Press is to provide information about the activities of the Department. Included are articles about staff research and travel, visitors, new publications, and plant conservation highlights.
Uncommon Ground
Academics, biodiversity, genetics, & evolution.
UW Botany
The Department of Botany promotes modern plant biology by engaging in forward-looking teaching and research, with strengths in evolution, systematics and ecology.
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