Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we'll dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic tree—bryophytes and seedless vascular plants, like mosses and ferns. These plants are the unsung heroes of the botanical world, and we’re giving them their due.

Chapters:
The Plant World's Unsung Heroes
Plant Phylogeny
Bryophytes
The Bryophyte Life Cycle
Seedless Vascular Plants
Review & Credits
Credits

Whether in a desert, the savanna, or a tropical rainforest, plants have an important role in the ecological processes of Earth’s biomes. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore these different living locales, the effects of climate change on them, and how our photosynthetic friends make the world go ‘round.

Chapters:
Backpacking Across Earth
Types of Biomes
Plants' Role in Biomes
How Climate Change Affects Biomes
Is Planting Trees the Answer?
Protecting Earth's Biomes
Review & Credits
Credits

The social dynamics of plants are as complex as those at any high school. By studying how plants interact — one-on-one, as a population, and in their communities — ecologists can figure out how to conserve our photosynthetic friends. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore these complex relationships—and eavesdrop on all the hot plant gossip.

Chapters:
Plants' Social Lives
Symbiotic Relationships
Population Ecology
Community Ecology & The Everglades
Facilitation & Competition
Community Conservation
Review & Credits
Credits

Plants—they’re just like us! Well, not exactly, but they do have skin and hair like us…even if they also have creepy little alien mouths. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’re getting up close and personal with plants’ anatomy by diving right into plant tissue under a microscope. Let’s learn what plants are really made of.

Chapters:
Dr. Katherine Esau
Plant Tissues
Dermal Tissue
Vascular Tissue
Ground Tissue
Under the Microscope
Review & Credits
Credits

Humans love to play with their food—in fact, we’ve been doing it for thousands of years. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we'll explore how we’ve learned to manipulate plant genetics, from breeding tastier fruits and veggies to directly editing plant genes that help crops survive climate change. And if you’ve ever wondered what GMOs are or if they’re safe, we’ve got you covered.

Chapters:
Playing With Our Food
Plant Genetics & Breeding
What Are GMOs?
How GMOs Are Made
Ancient GMOs
Are GMOs Safe?
Concerns About GMOs
Types of GMOs
Review & Credits
Credits

All of the different plants on Earth have come about thanks to the simple rules of genetic inheritance, which determine how traits are passed on from one generation to the next. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore the remarkable story of Gregor Mendel, a botanist and mathematician who laid the groundwork for modern genetics with little more than some peas and a paintbrush.

Chapters:
Peas & a Paintbrush
Gregor Mendel
Mendel's Experiments
Phenotype & Genotype
Mendel's Principles of Inheritance
Effects of Mendel's Research
Review & Credits
Credits

Linda Black Elk is passionate about plants. Linda Black Elk is an ethnobotanist and professor of ethnobotany and science education at Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates, North Dakota and recently she traveled to the Cansayapi Oyate (the Lower Sioux Indian Community) to share her knowledge of medicinal plants with students there.

Two lesson plans for grades 9-12 are included as gallery assets and in the Support Materials.

Red and cyan fluorescent proteins marking plant cell nuclei. Fernan FedericiCC-BY-NC-SA-2.0 Botany by Melissa Ha, Maria Morrow & Kammy Algiershttps://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Botany/Botany_(Ha_Morrow_and_Algiers)A Photographic Atlas for Botany by Maria Morrow https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Botany/A_Photographic_Atlas_for_Botany_(Morrow)Introduction to Botany By Alexey Shipunovhttps://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Botany/Introduction_to_Botany_(Shipunov)Plant Anatomy and Physiology by Sean Bellairshttps://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Botany/Book%3A_Plant_Anatomy_and_Physiology_(Bellairs)Did you have an idea for improving this content? We’d love your input.

This glossary in Telugu is extensively helpful for those who are studying Botany . It provides them with simple and clear definitions for key terms and concepts in Botany. By contributing clarity and understanding in Telugu, a glossary for Botany can be a great source of help, especially for those who have done much of their education in Telugu and for those who are from rural areas and have been dispossessed of their education for a period of time and are trying to resume their studies. I hope my efforts will serve your purpose.

Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio https://www.idigbio.org) is the National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) funded by the National Science Foundation. Through ADBC, data and images for millions of biological specimens are being made available in electronic format for the research community, government agencies, students, educators, and the general public.

The iDigBio specimen portal (https://www.idigbio.org/portal) provides access to millions of records about neontological and paleontological specimens curated at museums and other institutions in the US. Records might include information about the specimen, when, where and by whom it was collected, the institution providing the data, images and other media related to the specimen.

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Return to milneopentextbooks.org to download PDF and other versions of this textNewParaInanimate Life is an open textbook covering a very traditional biological topic, botany, in a non-traditional way. Rather than a phylogenetic approach, going group by group, the book considers what defines organisms and examines four general areas of their biology: structure (size, shape, composition and how it comes to be); reproduction (including sex when present); energy and material needs, acquisition and manipulations; and finally their interactions with conditions and with other organisms including agricultural interactions between plants and people. Although much of the text is devoted to vascular plants, the book comparatively considers ‘EBA = everything but animals’ (hence the title): plants, photosynthetic organisms that are not plants (‘algae’, as well as some bacteria and archaebacteria), fungi, and ‘fungal-like’ organisms. The book includes brief ‘fact sheets’ of fifty-nine organisms/groups that biologists should be aware of, ranging from the very familiar (corn, yeast, pines) to the unfamiliar (cryptophytes, diatoms, late-blight of potato). These groups reflect the diversity of inanimate life.NewParaThis updated edition was published in July 2022 and includes corrections, revisions, additional figures, and fact-sheets for several more groups.

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Inanimate Life is an open textbook covering a very traditional biological topic, botany, in a non-traditional way. Rather than a phylogenetic approach, going group by group, the book considers what defines organisms and examines four general areas of their biology: structure (size, shape, composition and how it comes to be); reproduction (including sex when present); energy and material needs, acquisition and manipulations; and finally their interactions with conditions and with other organisms including agricultural interactions between plants and people. Although much of the text is devoted to vascular plants, the book comparatively considers ‘EBA = everything but animals’ (hence the title): plants, photosynthetic organisms that are not plants (‘algae’, as well as some bacteria and archaebacteria), fungi, and ‘fungal-like’ organisms. The book includes brief ‘fact sheets’ of fifty-nine organisms/groups that biologists should be aware of, ranging from the very familiar (corn, yeast, pines) to the unfamiliar (cryptophytes, diatoms, late-blight of potato). These groups reflect the diversity of inanimate life. This updated edition was published in July 2022 and includes corrections, revisions, additional figures, and fact-sheets for several more groups.

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This blog post shared on the Wisconsin Fast Plants website is a guest post by Daniel Murphy, author of the weekly blog Awkward Botany. In this post, Daniel shares his firsthand account of his experiences growing plants and becoming "a bona fide plant nerd." This post is a great example of the value in letting learners know plants by growing them. Thank you Daniel for letting us share this story!

In this lesson students are introduced to the basic structures of flowers and then are shown why a daisy is not a flower, but an infloresscence. Students should be able to name, describe and idenify the basic anatomy of flowers after viewing these demonstrations.  

This illustrated guide is designed to help students recognize and learn the different parts of a flower. The single Web page, which can be easily printed for use at field sites, identifies these parts: plant stigma style ovary stamen anther filament petal ovule with embryo sac sepal receptacle peduncle.

This article, part of Biodiversity Counts, reports on the process of doing a plant inventory. The article discusses how scientists begin by marking out the plot, using colored flagging and permanent marker, why you may need to divide a plot into smaller subplots if the plants you're inventorying are smaller than trees, and some of the difficulties scientists face in the field when they're working in particularly dense areas.