[PCA] NEWS: The Academic Decline: How to Train the Next Generation of Botanists

[Kwong, Olivia]

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/11/12/the-academic-decline-how-to-train-the-next-generation-of-botanists

The Academic Decline: How to Train the Next Generation of Botanists
Although federal agencies need educated botanists, only a handful of
colleges still have botany programs
By ALLIE BIDWELL
November 12, 2013
U.S. News & World Report

Krissa Skogen is a conservation scientist at the Chicago Botanic Garden,
where she spends her days researching a family of plants known as the
evening primrose.

She and her colleagues study different features of more than 100 species of
the sunny yellow flowers: How big are their petals? How much nectar do they
produce? What combination of compounds in their fragrance attracts the most
pollinators?

While it might seem like a particularly nuanced job for only a certain
niche, Skogen says understanding the relationship between plants and their
pollinators can have a large effect on other sectors.

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