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profojah:
Hi all..
Let's talk about the specialties and career opportunities in botany...This plant science field is so broad and there are many specialization... Botanist interested in ecology study interaction of plants with other organisms and the environment, . other filed botanists search to find new species or perform experiments to discover how plant grow under different condition. Some botanist study the structure of plants, they may work in the field, concentrating on the pattern of the whole plant. Others use microscope to study the most detailed fine structure of individual cells..Many botanist conduct experiments to determine how plant convert simple chemical compounds into more complex chemicals...They also study how genetic information in DNA controls plant development and the process that occur on a time scale ranging from fractions of a second in individual cell to those that unfold over eons of the evolutionary time

The results of botanical research increase and improve our supply of medicine, foods, fibre, building materials and other plant products..
*Conservationist use botanical knowledge to help manage parks, forest, rangelands and wilderness area
*Public health and environmental protection professionals depend on their understanding of plant science to help solve solution problems.

So one of the most significant aspects of botany is the number of different specialties and career opportunities from which one can choose...(phycology, mycology, ecology, systematics, paleobotany, palynology, taxonomy, biotechnology, pathology, horticulture, physiology to molecular biology-DNA barcording)...
Among careers available to a person who enjoys the outdoors are positioned as an ecologist , taxonomist,cconservationist, forester or plant explorer. A person with a mathematical background might find biophysics, developmental botany, genetics, modelling or system ecology to be exciting field..someone with interest in chemistry might become a plant physiologist, plant biochemist, molecular biologist or a chemotaxonomist...A botanist with a passion for investigation would find forensic botany quite rewarding.

*Employment opportunities usually depend on educational training and experience. Job positions in botany are expected to increase from time to time because of the unique role of palnts in human affairs.
Educational institutions which employ botanists range from secondary school, colleges of education, polytechnic to universities. Teaching botany is a very challenging and rewarding career..
Federal and state govt need botanists in many different field e.g ministries of agriculture , environment , education, petroleum resources, science and technology , water resources & rural developmnt , national planning, custom service , justice(as forensic expert) and many dept , agencies and parastatals..

Finally, Botanists are also job creators and employers of labour . As a result of great diversity of plants and plant products, botanist initiate and sustain various small and medium scale industries based entirely on plants derivatives such as herbal shops, ornamental plant shop and wood carving(Lol, i knw most pple won't wanna go into this)


Post your questions base on school, subject (if ure an undergraduate/graduate students), career,specialties, et al...ready to answer you all

Gudmorning projajh my name is Aaron , im a botany final year student of KSU. Pls one question has bin baffling me on one assignment I nid to submit on Friday. Our mycology lecturer gave a note about clavicep purpreu in the family teliomycete and we are ask to submit a note on its importance to plant and i also want to ask if they are smut fungi. Thank u sir