Subdisciplines of botany
Botany is a natural science concerned with the study of plants .The main branches of botany (also referred to as "plant science") are commonly divided into three groups: core topics, concerned with the study of the fundamental natural phenomena and processes of plant life, the classification and description of plant diversity; applied topics which study the ways in which plants may be used for economic benefit in horticulture, agriculture and forestry; and organismic topics which focus on plant groups such as algae, mosses or flowering plants.
Agronomy – Application of plant science to crop production
Arboriculture – Culture and propagation of trees
Astrobotany - The study of plants in space
Biotechnology – Use of plants to synthesize products
Dendrology – Study of woody plants, shrubs, trees and lianas
Economic botany – Study of plants of economic use or value
Ethnobotany – Plants and people. Use and selection of plants by humans
Forestry – Forest management and related studies
Horticulture – cultivation of garden plants
Marine botany – Study of aquatic plants and algae that live in seawater
Micropropagation – rapid propagation of plants using cell and tissue culture
Pharming (genetics) – Genetic engineering of plants to produce pharmaceuticals
Plant breeding – Breeding of plants with desirable genetic characters
Plant pathology (Phytopathology) – Plant diseases
Plant propagation – propagation of plants from seed, bulbs, tubers, cuttings and grafting
Pomology – Fruit and nuts
Seed technology - Seed technology is the science dealing with the methods of improving physical and genetical characteristics of seed. groups of organisms - clades, grades and guilds
Agrostology , or graminology – Poaceae (grasses)
Batology – Rubus subg. Rubus (brambles)
Bryology ,[1] or muscology – mosses (sensu strictu) or mosses, liverworts, and hornworts (sensu lato)
Caricology - Caricaceae (sedges)
Charology - Charales (stoneworts)
Citrology - Citrus
Cycadology - Cycadophyta
Dendrology – trees
Hepaticology, or hepatology - Marchantiophyta (liverworts)
Lichenology – lichens
Mycology , mycetology, or fungology – fungi
Orchidology – Orchidaceae
Phycology , [2] or algology – Algae
Pteridology , or filicology – ferns and their allies
Rhodology - Rosa
Sphagnology - Spaghnum
Synantherology – Asteraceae (composites)study of chronological dating using plants
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