Botany and Branches

• Agronomy: Application of plant science to crop production
• Bryology: Mosses, liverworts, and hornworts
• 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: The study of lichens
• Paleobotany: Fossil plants
• Palynology: Pollen and spores
• Phycology: Algae
• Phytochemistry: Plan t 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 physiology: Life functions of plants
• Plant systematics: Classification and naming of plants