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Participating Societies

American Bryological and Lichenological Society (ABLS)

American Fern Society (AFS)

American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT)

Botanical Society of America (BSA)

Canadian Botanical Association (CBA/ABC)

Program for: Botanical Society of America

Special Presentation

· Address of the BSA President-Elect - Dr. Karl Niklas

· Annals of Botany Lecture - Dr. Loren Rieseberg

· Plenary Address - Dr. Paul Stamets

· Regional Botany Special Lecture - Dr. Carl Wieman

Workshop

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Events

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Member Sections/Societies

· Bryological and Lichenological Section/ABLS

· Developmental and Structural Section

· Ecological Section

· Economic Botany Section

· Genetics Section

· Historical Section

· Mycological Section

· Paleobotanical Section

· Phycological Section

· Physiological Section

· Phytochemical Section

· Pteridological Section/AFS

· Systematics Section / ASPT

· Teaching Section

· Tropical Biology Section

Topics

· Biogeography

· Conservation Biology

· Economic Botany: Applied Plant Biology

· Economic Botany: Ethnobotany

· Economic Botany: Evolution of Cultivated Plants

· Economic Botany: History of Plants and People

· Ecophysiology

· Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Evo-Devo)

· Gene Structure and Function

· Genomics / Proteomics

· Molecular Biology

· Molecular Ecology and Evolution

· Pollination Biology

· Population Genetics

· Stress Tolerance

· Symbioses: Plant, Animal, and Microbe Interactions

Symposium or Colloquium Presentation

· Bryophytes and Lichens of North America: Diversity, Function and Importance

· Colloquium: The flora of Madagascar: research needs and research progress

· Colloquium: The Utility of Pollen in Systematic and Morphological Studies: A Celebration of the Life of John J. Skvarla

· Demand for Botanists on Public Lands: Challenges and Solutions

· From Gels to Genomics: The Evolving Landscape of Pteridology. A Celebration of Gerald Gastony's Contributions to Fern Evolutionary Biology

· Phylogeography of northern North America with insights from paleontological, geological, and molecular data

· Plants and fungi--growing together

· Pollination to Population Structure - How Understanding Reproductive Biology Can Inform Conservation of Rare Plants

· Polyploidy: Genetics, Evolution and Ecology

· President's Symposia - Understanding the Crisis in Science Literacy: The BSA is Planting Science in the 21st Century

· The Future of Botany Teaching

· The Future of International Botanical Research: possibilities and strategies for your International collaborations and research, especially in developing nations

· Tropical Biodiversity and Food Security

· Understanding plant evolution: morphology to molecules

· Wollemia nobilis: Modern Studies of an Ancient Plant

Presentations for Society\Section: Tropical Biodiversity and Food Security

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Session	Date/Time	Location	Title	Type	Authors	Keywords
Tuesday, July 29th
Tuesday, July 29th, 9:00 am to 11:15 am · 178/Law Session S7: Special Lecture: Tropical Biodiversity and Food Security Presiding: SJ Murch, UBC Okanagan Log in to add this item to your schedule
S7001	July 29th 9:00 am	178/Law	Tropical Biodiversity and Food Security Log in to add this item to your schedule	Symposium or Colloquium Presentation	Tavana, G.	food security
S7002	July 29th 9:15 am	178/Law	Breadfruit: Exploring the Global Potential of a Traditional Pacific Crop for Food Security, Agroforestry and Sustainable Agriculture Log in to add this item to your schedule	Symposium or Colloquium Presentation	Ragone, Diane.	breadfruit crop diversity food security
S7003	July 29th 9:45 am	178/Law	Conservation Genetics of Breadfruit, Artocarpus altilis Log in to add this item to your schedule	Symposium or Colloquium Presentation	Zerega, Nyree, J.C..	breadfruit microsatellites
S7004	July 29th 10:30 am	178/Law	In Vitro conservation and International distribution of breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis, Moracea) Log in to add this item to your schedule	Symposium or Colloquium Presentation	Jones, AMP; Murch, SJ; Saxena, PK.
S7005	July 29th 10:45 am	178/Law	The contributions of genetic and crop diversity in the food security and livelihood equations of poor farmers in Ethiopia: a case of Eragrostis tef, Sorghum bicolor and Ensete ventricosum Log in to add this item to your schedule	Symposium or Colloquium Presentation	Bekele, Endashaw; Birmeta, G.
S7006	July 29th 11:00 am	178/Law	The role of neglected and underutilized species in providing food security Log in to add this item to your schedule	Symposium or Colloquium Presentation	Engels, Johannes M.M.; Bordoni, Paul.	food security Biodiversity underutilized species

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