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Branches of botany

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– Biotechnology
– Use of plants to synthesize products

Dendrology
– Study of woody plants, shrubs, trees and lianas

– Economic botany
– Study of plants of economic use or value

Ethnobotany
– Plants and people. Use and selection of plants by humans

Forestry
– Forest management and related studies

Branches of botany (Wikipedia)

Botany is a natural science concerned with the study of plants.The main branches of botany (also referred to as "plant science") are commonly divided into three groups: core topics, concerned with the study of the fundamental natural phenomena and processes of plant life, the classification and description of plant diversity; applied topics which study the ways in which plants may be used for economic benefit in horticulture, agriculture and forestry; and organismic topics which focus on plant groups such as algae, mosses or flowering plants.

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