Botanical Society of America
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Promoting plant scientists, plant research, & plant admiration since 1893. Publisher of #AJB, #AppsPlantSci & #PlantSciBull. We no longer post on X as of 2025.
St. Louis, MO
Joined April 2009
We deeply appreciate everyone who has engaged with us on X over the years!. For our final X post, we invite you to connect with us on Bluesky (@ , Instagram and Facebook (@ BotanicalSocietyofAmerica), and the BSA Slack community (.
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BSA is proud to provide over $125,000 in awards each year, many of which are now open! Soon to open are the Public Policy Award and the $1000 Botanical Advocacy and Service Grant. For more information, visit: Don't forget to join us on Bluesky, IG, & FB!
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Want to shape the future of BSA? Join a BSA Committee!. Current BSA members can choose from 12 committees, & students are welcome for select roles!. Apply by Feb. 1, 2025: Don't forget to join us on Bluesky (, IG, FB, & BSA Slack
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Support botanical science students this year-end with a gift to the Graduate Student Research Award Fund! Your donation helps us give $1500 awards in 2025, impacting students by making them feel recognized & part of the community. #BSAstudents #BSAawards
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This is a reminder that BSA will no longer be posting on X starting Janin 1, 2025. We hope you will join us on other social media platforms, such as Bluesky, Instagram (@ botanicalsocietyofamerica), Facebook (@ BotanicalSocietyofAmerica), and BSA Slack (.
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Different orthology inference algorithms generate similar predicted orthogroups among #Brassicaceae species. New in #AppsPlantSci by Liao (@plantbotsci), @Sears_Lab, @LenaHileman & @Luke_Nikolov . @wileyplantsci #botany #phylogenomics
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Check out and sign up for the inaugural Science Communication Internship Program for Spring 2025!. Deadline is January 31st!
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The memory of past water abundance shapes trees 7 years later. New #AJB research by Alana R. O. Chin, Arthur Gessler, Omar Laín, Isabella Østerlund, Marcus Schaub, @GTRancourt, et al. #botany #Pineaceae @wileyplantsci @HumboldtBiolSci @humboldtcalpoly
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Make a year-end gift to BSA to support student botanical scientists! 🌿. Your donation to the Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA) fund empowers students like Chinedum Anajemba and directly impacts the number of awards given in 2025. Donate today:
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RT @KuoFernLab: Our collaborators, mycologists Xie et al. @koshroom led this project, just revealing an interesting fungal employment in Op….
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🌵🌴 Big news! Botany 2025 is now heading to sunny Palm Springs, CA (July 25-31, 2025)! While plans shifted from Tucson, we're excited to stay in the Southwest. See you there! 🌟 . More information will be coming in early January at #Botany2025
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RT @NTBG: The director of The Kampong (our garden in #Miami) is a coauthor on a new research paper that shows how a bromeliad's shape can a….
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Premise Up to half of tropical forest plant species grow on other plants. Lacking access to soils, vascular epiphytes have unique adaptations for mineral nutrition. Among the most distinctive is...
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RT @saltyecoevo: I am very glad to see this paper out!! Take a look at what we found on host-mistletoe interactions in Australia!.
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Presence of bacteria in soil makes flowers more attractive to #pollinators (feat. research in the #AJB issue by @LSComita & @Jenalle_Eck!]
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Bacteria that live in soil and help roots fix nitrogen can boost certain plants' capacity to reproduce by enhancing the attractiveness of the plant's flowers to pollinators via a relationship known...
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RT @Jenalle_Eck: Do plant-soil feedbacks occur *within* species in tropical forests? Our field experiment in Panama shows that whether a se….
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Premise Soil microbes can influence patterns of diversity in plant communities via plant–soil feedbacks. Intraspecific plant–soil feedbacks occur when plant genotype leads to variations in soil...
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The new #AJB is now online---featuring the special section "The Role of Plant–Microbe Interactions in Plant Community Dynamics of Tropical & Subtropical Ecosystems". Check out the intro here! #botany #epiphytes @wileyplantsci @WileyEcolEvol
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Support botanical science students, like past winner @fetterlyemma, by donating to the Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA) fund! Your donations directly impact the # of awards that we will give out in 2025!. Donate: GSRA info:
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Spatiotemporal variation in population dynamics of a narrow endemic, Ranunculus austro-oreganus. New #AJB research by @Thoen_Riley, Lauren Hendricks, Graham Bailes, Bart Johnson, @MeganDemarche et al. #botany #buttercup @wileyplantsci
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qPCR-based quantification reveals high plant host-specificity of endophytic colonization levels in leaves. New #AJB research by Caio César Pires de Paula, Jiří Bárta, Dagmara Sirová et al. #botany #fungi @wileyplantsci @WileyEcolEvol @fungirockCZ
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