gen botany
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- General Botany - The scientific study of plants structure, function, and evolution
- Specialties in this study
- Morphology
- Physiology
- Systematic
- Genetics
- Morphology
- Plant form, structure, and development (external appearance)
- Physiology
- Study of processes that take place within a plant
- Systematic
- The identification, classification, and evolutionary relationship of plants
- Genetics
- Study of inheritance and variation of how characters are transmitted from parents to offspring
- Various other subdivisions of botany
- physiology
- mycology
- bacteriology
- plant pathology
- plan ecology
- Physiology - study of algae
- Mycology - simple non-green plants; study of fungi
- Bacteriology - study of bacteria
- Plant pathology - study of plant diseases and attempts to improve their chances of survival
- Plant ecology - examines the relationship between plants and their physical and biotic environment
- Rice - (oryza sativa) is the principal food for the tropical population
- Wheat - (Triticum aestivum) World’s widely cultivated crop cultivated in all continents except Antarctica
- Corn - widely distributed crop and only to wheat in acreage planted throughout the world
- Soybean - world's most abundantly grown seed legume in US and China
- Peanut - inexpensive source of protein
- Root crops - freshly storage root, have abundant starch but low in protein
- Forages - any plants that are consumed by livestock
- Cotton - most important natural fiber