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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><strong><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Register online by September 15, <span style="color: black;">2010</span><!-- o ignored --></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoTitle" style="text-align: right;" align="right"><span>The Ninth Annual</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoTitle" style="text-align: right;" align="right"><span>Smithsonian Botanical Symposium<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: right;" align="right"><em><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">          </span></em><em><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Hosted by the Departments of Botany</span></em> <em><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">and Anthropology, NMNH<!-- o ignored --></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: right;" align="right"><em><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">In collaboration with the United States Botanic Garden<!-- o ignored --></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: right;" align="right"><em><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">Supported by the Cuatrecasas Family Foundation</span></em><em><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;"><!-- o ignored --></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">“Food For Thought: 21^st Century Perspectives on Ethnobotany”</span></em></strong><strong><em><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><!-- o ignored --></span></em></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText3" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: 15.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">People are dependent upon plants for food, clothing, medicine, fuel and other necessities of life. Humans and plants have interacted for as long as humans have existed, but our relationship is not static. Since the advent of agriculture we have exerted evolutionary pressure on plants that are of importance to us. Indigenous and industrialized societies have interacted with plants in their environments and influenced not only crop plants, but also cultural landscapes. The Symposium will examine the 21^st century transformation of the study of interactions between plants and people. The invited speakers will cover a wide range of topics: from the role molecular biology now has in elucidating crop domestication to the ways in which peoples across myriad ecosystems interact with specific plants and landscapes.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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