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botany

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

thumb|upright=1.25|alt=Image of ripe nutmeg fruit split open to show red aril|The fruit of Myristica fragrans, a species native to [[Indonesia, is the source of two valuable spices, the red aril (mace) enclosing the dark brown nutmeg.]]

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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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Commons category: Botany

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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
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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.