I'm a high school senior graduating this year, and I'm a bit torn about what I want to choose as my major. I'm considering plant biology/botany and forestry. My ultimate goal is to work as a restoration ecologist, urban forester, conservation officer, or something similar, but I also don't want to dismiss the possibility of going to grad school and pursuing research as a career. The colleges I'm looking at have great programs for both majors and one even offers an Environmental Plant Biology major that seems interesting. However, I'm not sure which path is more relevant for my future career, what the job outlook and salaries are like, and the overall benefits of each. Honestly, I'm okay with not making a lot of money. I just love being outdoors, and I want to make a positive impact on the environment and give back to the earth for the joy I've received from it. I was hoping someone could shed some light on the situation and provide tips on what I should major in. If you've specialized in either field, what do you do now, and do you enjoy it? What other careers or majors have I overlooked? What environmental careers are currently in high demand? Should I consider a completely different major? Any advice and feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!!

I mean cells which main purpose is to fight infections by any mechanism, for example, by secreting a specific substance or similar

Hello! I’m currently clearing some trails through some marshy land on my property and I’m looking for some advice/info on poison sumac. After identifying the plants I’m the summer when the plants are leafed out, I’m looking to remove the plant entirely this winter. My question is whether the bark of the poison sumac tree has urushiol oil on the outer moist skin or not? Please let me know your thoughts!

Beginning my quest to understand petal morphology. Where should I look?

Here’s one for leaves, for example:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.22230

On a job post i saw a requirement of "level 5 botanical identification", I'm early in my career but this is the first im hearing of a ranking system, how do i find my ranking and how do i improve it? Also, while im at it, is there a level system for zoology?

Considering that most of Siberian winter is fully permafrost thousands of meters deep, it would seems very difficult or impossible for any trees or plants to take root. How do they precisely survive? What are their adaptations?

Sorry for the bad picture; I took it from my car. I often notice bushes and whatnot with one branch that’s much taller than the others. Is there any specific reason this happens?

Please and thank you

Hey all.

I've been working on some small instrumentation projects for my growing experiments. Mostly focused on small, slow growing cacti.

This is mostly a personal curiosity project while working on honing some electronics and coding skills.

Now, the question:

Are there any stamdardized classification codes or schemes that exist out there for plants? Particularly houseplants? Cultivar/location tagging?

If I'm going through the process to generate labels that can be scanned to update info on the plant, or pull via conputer vision for time lapses, I'd like to see what exists before reinventing the wheel.

I have found a few through some Google searches, but nothing broad. Everything seems to be for one particular thing or another.

Looking for some ideas. Likely would make a QR type encoding with some text if there's something small enough.

Thoughts?

Does anyone know where to find this in the US? Been looking for a while with no luck. I read some interesting info on the positive effects the asparagus africanus root has on kidney and liver function. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm pretty decent with my knowledge of flower reproductive parts -- however one of my amaryllis flowers has this weird additional... thing...circled in yellow. Is it just a mutant stamen? There are 6 normal ones in each other flower but 5 in this one, making me thing it's just a weirdly growing stamen.

I understand that there IS a difference between other plants and legumes but I don't know WHAT the difference is. Why doesn't the bacteria form nodules on fruiting plants?

I'm starting a garden this year and want to understand things just a little past, "this works".

Hi y’all, new to this sub. I just graduated from university in Oregon and i used hitchcock’s Flora of the PNW for a lot of identifications, but I’ve since moved back home to the east coast and am struggling to find good resources to learn the native plants of New England, so far I’ve been using BONAP but find it a little tough to use. I am also wondering what dichotomous key over here holds up to something like the one I used in the PNW. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hello, I'm on my 7th semester of college and I'm starting work in my school's herbarium identifying plants, and I've been using the Manual of Cultivated Plants by L. H. Baley but it's very old, and I was wondering if there is another book about commonly grown plants with a key on it. I don't think it's a problem but it would save a lot of work if I had a more recent source.

Hi everyone!! I am a marketing student working on a marketing plan for a start-up company producing peat pots. I know very little about plant retail and distribution, and have some questions for retail owners or employees that would greatly help me with my project.

Our company has listed the following pain points for retail & distributors:

• Stocking Issues - Frequent overstocking or understocking
• Lack of inventory visibility - Difficulty tracking stock across multiple locations
• Care inconsistency - Inconsistent care knowledge among staff causing inventory losses
• Instruction Efficiency - Difficulty in providing accurate & plant-specific care instructions to customers
• Missed Opportunities - Lost sales due to inability to check stock at other locations
• Plant Maintenance - Challenges in maintaining plant quality and health

I'm curious to know if these challenges show up in your day-to-day operations (if so, which is #1), what tools or strategies you've implemented to address them, or if there are any other pain points for your company that I didn't list.

TIA!!

Hi all, I am new here.

I want to build a robot able to surgically kill unwanted plants in my garden, I was wondering if I could get away with a high power array of LEDs. I would like to avoid using heat or lasers in an unsupervised environment, hence the idea of just light. Searching the topic on google is difficult because my question is always rephrased as wanting to help plant grow, but I have the sun for that.

Thanks for your help.

I want to start learning plants and such, and don’t know where to start? Any tips or tricks or help?

Let's think of a plant that lives in the right temperature, soil, humidity, etc. Even living in the perfect conditions they'll at some point die, but, how? What fails for then to die? How varied is the life expectancy in the vegetal world. I know of the exceptionally old trees but what about the common plants and trees we usually see in cities? What's the average?

How's oxygen released when stoma closed???