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Biology: Plants

Special Topics | Plants and Botany         

Peer-reviewed journals

Research databases and portals

Recommended reading 

For a comparison of databases, as well as a list of species-specific sequence databases, see 

Ong, Q., Nguyen, P., Thao, N. P., & Le, L. (2016). Bioinformatics Approach in Plant Genomic Research. Current genomics, 17(4), 368–378. https://doi.org/10.2174/1389202917666160331202956

Ethnobotany is the study of how Indigenous peoples and cultures understand, use, and manage plants in their daily lives and traditions.

Among the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people of Canada, and Indigenous communities across North America, this knowledge has been built on centuries of observation, experimentation, and cultural teachings. In Canada and North America, ethnobotanical research has documented thousands of plant species used by Indigenous peoples for medicinal, nutritional, spiritual, and practical purposes. This knowledge remains vital for cultural preservation, biodiversity stewardship, and discussion of Indigenous rights and food sovereignty today

eBooks: textbooks and reference

In-text example: 

Although gymnosperms were once the dominant flora on earth, they have gradually been displaced by flowering angiosperms ("gymnosperm," 2019). 

Citation:

(2019). Gymnosperm. In Allaby, M. (Ed.), A Dictionary of Plant Sciences. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 7 Jan. 2022, from https://www-oxfordreference-com.proxy.lib.uwaterloo.ca/ view/10.1093/acref/9780198833338.001.0001/acref-9780198833338-e-3099.