02-08-2017, 12:23 PM
Botany also called plant science, plant biology or phytology. It is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who specializes in this field. Traditionally, botany has also included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and psychologists, respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere of interest of the International Botanic Congress. Today, botanists (strictly speaking) study about 410,000 species of terrestrial plants, of which some 391,000 species are vascular plants (including about 369,000 species of flowering plants) and about 20,000 are bryophytes.
Botany originated in prehistory as a herbalist with the efforts of early humans to identify - and subsequently cultivate - edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, making it one of the oldest branches of science. Medieval gardens, often associated with monasteries, contained plants of medical importance. They were precursors of the first botanical gardens attached to the universities, founded from the decade of 1540 onwards. One of the first was the botanical garden of Padua. These gardens facilitated the academic study of plants. The efforts to catalog and describe their collections were the beginnings of plant taxonomy, and led in 1753 to the binomial system of Carl Linnaeus that is still used until today.
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