Agriculture and botany

Agricultural botany refers to using the science of botany to help improve farming. Botanists who work in the agricultural field may research topics such as

] Agricultural Botanyl. 577 about through the hereditary relationships of plants, the wild plant being the progenitor of the cultivated, it becomes

When did Botany become a science?

In China and the Arab world, the Greco-Roman work on medicinal plants was preserved and extended.
In Europe the Renaissance of the 14th–17th centuries heralded a scientific revival during which botany gradually emerged from natural history as an independent science, distinct from medicine and agriculture.

The Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine, and Storage is an agency of the Plant Protection Division of the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, in the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare of the Government of India.

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