THIS is in no sense a cram-book. To take the trouble of learning it by heart, page for page, would not suffice for any botanical examination with which we are acquainted. This is a great advantage in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Science, founded by Thomas A. Edison in 1880 and published by AAAS, today ranks as the world's largest circulation general science ...

DURING recent years many books on botany have been published, specially for the use of students preparing for examinations. In these a few types and phases of plant life have been described somewhat ...

During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a researcher at the University of Washington started noticing something strange in the college’s experimental forest. For years, a blight of caterpillars ...

MOUNT IDA, Arkansas, United States — Scientists are warning that the plant world could become a virtual mystery in the coming decades as college students increasingly shy away from studying botany and ...

Scientists have revealed a parasite's role in boosting male insect appeal by modulating host processes to facilitate female attraction, thereby enhancing the parasite's own transmission and survival.

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UC Davis postdoctoral scholar Marina LaForgia led the class "Badass Babes of Botany." (Courtesy Marina LaForgia). It’s the turn of the 19th century and botany is the only socially acceptable science ...

Three researchers have prepared a delightful concoction: equal parts plant science, cultural history and recipe book. The result is Botany at the Bar, an introduction to the fascinating world of ...