Botany—the study of plant life—is an ancient science. Since Theophrastus (371–287 BC), considered the “father of botany” and author of the two seminal treatises On the History of Plants and On the Causes of Plants, this science progressed with humanity, greatly contributing to its development and advancement: food plants are the nourishment for human and livestock, fibre plants are used for tex...

P. B. Kavi Kishor*, S. Sangam, R. N. Amrutha, P. Sri Laxmi, K. R. Naidu, K. R. S. S. Rao, Sreenath Rao, K. J. Reddy, P. Theriappan and N. Sreenivasulu Department of Genetics, and Department of Botany, Osmania University, Hyderabad 500 007, India Department of Botany, and Centre for Biotechnology, Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar 522 510, India Department of Botany, Gulbarga University, Gul...

This brief biography is consecrated to a scientist who has spent more than sixty years of his life on the study of Iranian plants and made a significant contribution to our knowledge of botany in Iran. Dr. Musa Iranshahr was born on 7 December 1923 in Tabriz (Iran). He did his elementary and high school where he was born. After graduating from Faculty of Agriculture, TehranUniversity, he receiv...

vented him from establishing the 'new science' as a viable tradition in Cambridge" (p. 72). This is, I think, an unjustifiable view of the history of botany. In choosing to discuss the development of whole-plant science, Walters has impoverished his subject the shaping of Cambridge botany so that the title of his book is a misnomer. Walters describes Henslow as a precursor of the "New Botany", ...

Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada (K.M., A.R.K.); Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada (G.L.-T., G.H.); Institute of Botany, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland (S.B.); Institute for Biology II, Botany/Plant Physiology, Albert-Ludwigs-University, D–79104 Frei...

Jing Zhao,a,b,1 Ying Tian,a,1 Ji-Si Zhang,a,b Man Zhao,a,b Pichang Gong,a,b Simone Riss,c,2 Rainer Saedler,c and Chaoying Hea,3 a State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, 100093 Beijing, China bUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049 Beijing, China cMax-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Departm...

1 Botanical Institute and Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Department of Botany, Raja Peary Mohan College, University of Calcutta, Uttarpara, India, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, Centre for Organismal Studies, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Department o...

1 Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, 2 China Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, 3 Key Laboratory of Agro-Biodiversity and Pest Management of Education Ministry of China, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China, 4 C...