Botany - Subdisciplines of Botany

Subdisciplines of Botany

  • Agronomy — Application of plant science to crop production
  • Bryology — Mosses, liverworts, and hornworts
  • Cryptobotany — Study of plants largely considered nonexistent
  • Dendrology – Study of woody plants, shrubs, trees and lianas
  • Economic botany — Study of plants of economic use or value
  • Ethnobotany — Relationship between humans and plants
  • Forestry — Forest management and related studies
  • Horticulture — Cultivated plants
  • Lichenology — Lichens
  • Mycology — Fungi
  • Paleobotany — Fossil plants
  • Palynology — Pollen and spores
  • Phycology — Algae
  • Phytochemistry — Plant secondary chemistry and chemical processes
  • Phytopathology — Plant diseases
  • Plant anatomy — Cell and tissue structure
  • Plant ecology — Role of plants in the environment
  • Plant genetics — Genetic inheritance in plants
  • Plant morphology — Structure and life cycles
  • Plant neurobiology — Behavioral-like aspects
  • Plant physiology — Life functions of plants
  • Plant systematics — Classification and naming of plants

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