Botany

Botany is the scientific study of plant life and development. Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study plants, algae, and fungi, including their structure, growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, diseases, chemical properties, and the evolutionary relationships between the different groups. Today, the scope of botany has increased to include the study of over 550,000 species of living organisms. Because plants are a fundamental part of life on Earth, the study of plants is vital to human well-being. Plants generate the oxygen, food, fibres, fuel, and medicine that allow humans and other higher life forms to exist.

Selected Contents: Five QTL Hotspots for Yield in Short Rotation Coppice Bioenergy Poplar: The Poplar Biomass Loci; Gain and Loss of Elongation Factor Genes in Green Algae; Common Themes in Nutrient Acquisition by Plant Symbiotic Microbes, Described by the Gene Ontology; Comparative Genomic Analysis of Light-Regulated Transcripts in the Solanaceae; A Clarified Position for Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme in the Evolutionary History of Tomatoes (Solanaceae); The Effects of Nitrogen and Potassium Nutrition on the Growth of Nonembryogenic and Embryogenic Tissue of Sweet Orange (Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck); Comparative Transcriptomic Characterization of Aluminum, Sodium Chloride, Cadmium and Copper Rhizotoxicities in Arabidopsis Thaliana; Expression-Based Discovery of Candidate Ovule Development Regulators Through Transcriptional Profiling of Ovule Mutants; Plant Origin and Ploidy Influence Gene Expression and Life Cycle Characteristics in an Invasive Weed; Genomic Expression Profiling of Mature Soybean (Glycine Max) Pollen; Invasive Mutualists Erode Native Pollination Webs; Invasive Plant Suppresses the Growth of Native Tree Seedlings by Disrupting Belowground Mutualisms; Expression of Genes Associated with Carbohydrate Metabolism in Cotton Stems and Roots; Index