The End of Botany

Jorge V Crisci; Liliana Katinas; María J Apodaca; Peter C Hoch

doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2020.09.012

The End of Botany

Trends Plant Sci. 2020 Dec;25(12):1173-1176. doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.09.012. Epub 2020 Oct 10.

Authors

Jorge V Crisci¹, Liliana Katinas², María J Apodaca², Peter C Hoch³

Affiliations

¹ División Plantas Vasculares, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina. Electronic address: crisci@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar.
² División Plantas Vasculares, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina.
³ Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.

PMID: 33046371
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.09.012

Abstract

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?

Keywords: botany decline; language and reality; market logic; natural history collections; reductionism.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Botany*
Plants