Welcome to BOTANY WITHOUT BORDERS!

We are pleased to present BSA President, Dr. Karl Niklas' inaugural address and gift to all plant societies, the multi-media event, "Botany without Borders." The short clip (10 minutes) outlines the importance of plants and those who study them. It explores the magic and wonders plants represent and the people who unlock their secrets. If your internet connection is slow, let the entire program download before watching to get the full effect. Click on the arrow and enjoy!

QuickTime files (and text) of this movie are available free of charge by sending a thumb-drive (2 GB) and a self addressed/stamped envelope to Multi-Media Event, C/O BSA Manager, Botanical Society of America, PO Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299.

The Society was founded in 1893. We represent professional botanists, plant scientists, educators, students and amateur plant science enthusiasts from around the world. Our primary purpose is to promote botany, the field of basic science dealing with the study and inquiry into the form, function, development, diversity, reproduction, evolution, and uses of plants and their interactions within the biosphere.

 
Botany Without Borders

BSA Member's BOTANICAL video clips

The response to Botany without Borders has been so good, and turned out to be such an easy way to highlight the Botanical Sciences, that it has prompted us to add video clips from BSA members around the world. Send us your favorite botanical video clip - videos@botany.org! Enjoy!

NEW Releases!

Plants are cool too!

Plants Are Cool Too! "The Pale Pitcher Plant" (Video 1) exploring the habitat, life cycle, morphology and ecosystem of Sarracenia alata, a species of carnivorous pitcher plant. Hosted by Dr. Chris Martine and featuring Dr. Maggie Koopman (Botanical Society of America members and professor of biology at SUNY Plattsburgh and Eastern Michigan University, respectively).

SUNY Plattsburgh and the Botanical Society of America are co-sponsors.
 

Botany 2010 Presidential Address

Dr. Judy Skog - Clip 1 Dr. Judy Skog - Clip 2 Dr. Judy Skog - Clip 3
     

Botany 2010 Poster Interviews

Sasha Dow-Kitson - Reproductive biology of Hydrocharis morsus-ranae in Lake Champlain, a likely source population for the next region-wide aquatic plant invasion. Co-author: Christopher T. Martine Marsh Sundberg - Assessing Botanical Capacity to Address 21st Century Grand Challenges in the United States. Co-authors: Patricia DeAngelis, Kayri Havens, Kent E. Holsinger, Kathryn Kennedy, Andrea T. Kramer, Rachel Muir, Peggy Olwell, Kristina A. Schierenbeck, Larry Stritch and Barbara Zorn-Arnold Rafael Arevalo - Who's a Mormolyca? A first look at the recircumscription of this orchid genus. Co-author: Kenneth M. Cameron Hoai Trang Nguyen - Evolutionary relationships of the 'sky island' pines (Pinus subsection Ponderosae) based on nuclear and plastid microsatellite loci. Co-authors: Nicole Segear, David A. Gernandt and Ann Willyard Colin Ahrens - Research on plant community assemblage for Agrostis supports ecological risk assessment for genetically engineered Agrostis stolonifera. Co-authors: Geoffrey Ecker and Carol Auer
         
Amanda Birmbaum - Volatile Oils of Monarda viridissima, an Endemic Species of the Carrizo Sand Formation in Texas. Shabnam Jabbari - Flower Color Variability and Mixed Mating in the Protandrous Herb Saponaria officinalis (L. Caryophyllaceae). Co-author: Sandra L. Davis Jonathon Jasinski - In Vitro Assessment of Allelopathy in the Invasive Aquatic Fern Salvinia molesta. Co-authors: Michael E. Kane and Ryan Dickson John Silvius & Daniel Thomas -An Integrative Approach to the Characterization of Psilotum (Psilotophyta): Insights from the Past and Recommendations for the Future. Pedro Escobar Garcias - Evolution and phylogeography of the Western Mediterranean Lavatera triloba aggregate (Malvaceae).
     

Botany & Mycology 2009 Poster Interviews

     

BSA Member Videos

Chris Martine, Growing Better - the Oaks (Quercus)
Chris Martine, Growing Better, Serotiny In Jack Pines Kate March, Angiosperms: The Secrets of Flowers
     

Dr. Nagib Nassar, The Super Yellow Cassava

English Translation
   
   

BSA Partner Projects

Chlorofilms - plant videos on YouTube
Chlorofilms - plant videos on YouTube
     

 PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN  

» ANNOUNCEMENTS
» BOOKS NEEDING REVIEW

  BOTANY IN THE NEWS   Botany in the News RSS

» Newly discovered carnivorous plant
    devours underground worms
» Jeanne Baret Finally Commemorated
    in Name of New Species
» Earliest Known Bug-Repellant
    Plant Bedding
» Tipping Plant Growth
» Why Buttercups Reflect
    Yellow on Chins

Careers in Botany

» POSITIONS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
» Post a Position

» Celebrating Women in the Plant Sciences

» Some Careers Ideas
    • An Adventure - this is my job!
    • International Journey to a Botany Career
    • Botany as a career: Still having fun
    • A love of flowers and plants

» BOTANY - the students' perspective
    • Tanya, University of California
    • Patricia, University of Washington
    • Cheng-Chiang, Harvard University
    • Uromi, Yale University
    • Tatiana, University of Missouri

     The Next Generation:
 Botany 2012

   July 7-11 in Columbus, Ohio

    Plan to be there...!!

  BOTANY BLOGS   

» Adventures of a Phytochemist
» Moss Plants and More
» The Phytophactor
» Uncommon Ground
» No seeds, no fruits, no flowers: no problem.

  IDEAS WORTH SPREADING (TED)   

» The roots of plant intelligence
» Why we're storing billions of seeds
» Nalini Nadkarni on conserving the canopy
» Why can't we grow new energy?
» World's oldest living things

 FEATURED BSA RESOURCES

» BSA members' PLANT VIDEOS online
  

» Economic Botany - How We Value Plants....
» Crime Scene Botanicals - Forensic Botany

  STUDENTS' CORNER

Call for Proposals - Student Research Awards
Proposals Due March 15

» BSA Graduate Student Research Awards
» BSA Undergraduate Student Research Awards
» Genetics Section GSRA

Student Travel Awards
Applications/Proposals Due April 10

(moved out beyond abstract submissions)
» Vernon I Cheadle STA
» Triarch "Botanical Images" STA

» AFS & Pteridological Section STA
» Developmental & Structural Section STA
» Ecological Section STA
» Genetics Section STA
» Mycological Section STA
» Phycological Section STA
» Phytochemical Section STA

» Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program

» Why should you join the Society as a student?
» NEW MEMBERS - Connecting with the BSA


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