“Biologists unable to recognize common plants, and a decline in botany students, faculty, courses, university departments, and herbaria, highlight the current erosion of botany.
How did we reach this crisis, knowing that plants form the basis for life? What are the causes? What can we do to reverse it?”

“The end of botany” article was published in the December 2020 issue of the magazine Trends in Plant Science.

Trends in Plant Science is the original and leading monthly review journal in plant science, featuring broad coverage of basic plant science, from molecular biology through to ecology. Succinct and readable reviews and opinions on basic research topics provide instant overviews of current thinking …

Unfortunately, “The end of botany” article is not only in force today but is probably even more current.

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