Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index simple:Botany Botany is the branch of Biology concerned with the scientific study of plants. Traditionally, botanists studied all organisms that were not generally regarded as animal. However, advances in our knowledge about the myriad forms of life, especially microbes (viruses and bacteria) have led to a spinning off from botany of the specialized field of microbiology. Table of contents 1 History 2 Related subjects 3 See also 4 External links History Among the earliest of botanical works, written around 300 BC, are two large treatises by Theophrastus: On the History of Plants (Historia Plantarum) and On the Causes of Plants. Together these books constitute the most important contribution to botanical science during antiquity and into the Middle Ages. Related subjects Plants Trees Fruit Herbs Seeds, stratification (botany) and germination. List of vegetables List of flowers Anamorphosis See also List of botanists List of botanical gardens External links A Study Guide to the Science of Botany ~ at Wikibooks Vicent Martínez C.'s Botanical-online.com This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.