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PLANT SCIENCE Bulletin Winter 2011 Volume 57 Number 4 PLANT SCIENCE Bulletin Winter 2011 Volume 57 Number 4 In This Issue.............. PlantingScience continues to Look what the American Journal of Botany 2012 is coming to life & is flourish with its biggest session yet! Botany has in store....p. 160 online at www.botanyconference.org. Details p. 129 Go to p. 178 From the Editor PLANT SCIENCE On the cover of this issue is a photo of some of the BULLETIN team that spent two days early in November brain- Editorial Committee storming about the future direction of Planting- Volume 57 Science, potentially the most significant program in the history of botany education in this country. Time Jenny Archibald will be the judge. But to help put it into perspective, (2011) in this issue we feature the first of a planned series of Department of Ecology articles describing the history of botanical education & Evolutionary Biology in America. The growth of American botany was The University of Kansas certainly dependent on support and examples from Lawrence, Kansas 66045 England and continental Europe, but many innova- [email protected] tions in pedagogy to teach botany in the schools and colleges originated in the United States. In fact, some Root Gorelick of the innovative “best practices” we struggle to dis- (2012) seminate more broadly today were first proposed and Department of Biology & implemented by botanists more than 200 years ago in School of Mathematics & the fledgling colleges, schools, and seminaries of the Statistics new republic. Carleton University This issue also marks our full transition to an auto- Ottawa, Ontario mated submission system for peer-reviewed manu- Canada, K1H 5N1 scripts in the Plant Science Bulletin. The system is [email protected] now “live” with a hot link under: “publications,” “Plant Science Bulletin,” “current issue” on the BSA website. This link leads to instructions for authors for Elizabeth Schussler four types of submissions, three of which should be (2013) submitted through the automated system. Research Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology articles, descriptive articles, and essays of general bo- University of Tennessee tanical interest should be submitted directly through Knoxville, TN 37996-1610 Editorial Manager. We are particularly interested in [email protected] articles representing BSA sections that are not typi- cally well represented in AJB. Editorial Manager for the Plant Science Bulletin mirrors that used for sub- mission of articles to the American Journal of Botany, Christopher Martine and if you have registered as an author or served as Department of Biology a reviewer for AJB, you are already in the database State University of New York (with a username and password). at Plattsburgh Book reviews, general news items, and requests Plattsburgh, NY 12901-2681 should still be submit- [email protected] ted directly to the edi- tor at [email protected]. Two articles are currently in review for publication in volume 58. Carolyn M. Wetzel Do you have one to Department of Biological submit? Sciences & Biochemistry Program Smith College Northampton, MA 01063 -Marsh Tel. 413/585-3687 Winter 2011 Volume 57 Number 4 Table of Contents Society News 2011 Contributors to the Botanical Society........... .........................................................126 Students Urge Lawmakers to Invest in Science .............................................................128 Educational Resources for Botany (ERB) ......................................................................128 BSA Science Education News and Notes PlantingScience ..............................................................................................................129 PlantIT Cases, Careers, and Collaborations ...................................................................130 Education Bits and Bobs: Recent Reports from the National Academies Press ............131 Editors Choice Reviews ...................................................................................................... 133 Reports and Reviews Botanical Education in the United States: Part 1, The Impact of Linneaus and the Foundations of Modern Pedagogy ..............................134 Personalia Dr. David Mabberley Honored .......................................................................................159 “Next-Gen Sequencing” Special Issue Slated for AJB in 2012. .....................................161 Book Reviews ..................................................................................................................... 162 Books for Review ............................................................................................................... 178 Plant Science Bulletin Reviewers ....................................................................................... 179 Botany 2012 ........................................................................................................................ 180 www.botanyconference.org 125 Society News Dear BSA Colleagues, On behalf of the Society I’d like to acknowledge and thank the following individuals (and families) for their contributions to the Botanical Society of America during our last financial year. The gifts were made to the BSA endowment, to various research awards, our educational efforts, and to the sections. This group donated close to $30,000 to support student research, our many awards, and student attendance at Botany 2011 in St. Louis. Working with other organizations, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists and the National Science Foundation specifically, we were also able to support 28 student and early career travel grants to the International Botanical Congress. Please understand, our contributions do make a difference. We encourage you to support the Society. (All gifts to the BSA are tax deductible.) Sincerely, Linda Graham BSA, At-large Director - Development ARLEE MONTALVO DAVID MCLAUGHLIN ELISABETH WHEELER CYNTHIA JONES WILLIAM CREPET CHARLES MILLER JR JUDY JERNSTEDT WATSON LAETSCH ANN HIRSCH ANN SAKAI JOANNE SHARPE ROBERT PRICE GREGORY ANDERSON ROGER ANDERSON SUZANNE KOPTUR CAROL WILSON LEO HICKEY CHRISTOPHER HAUFLER DAVID LEE RICHARD OLMSTEAD BRUCE TIFFNEY EDWARD COE JR JENNIFER RICHARDS CANDACE GALEN ANDREW GRELLER THOMAS RANKER CURT PETERSON RANDALL BAYER GREGORY CHEPLICK RUSSELL CHAPMAN RAYMOND HOLTON ECKHARD WOLLENWEBER NOEL HOLMGREN IRVING MENDELSSOHN JOE WINSTEAD DIANE BYERS PATRICIA HOLMGREN LOWELL URBATSCH DIANE ERWIN PETER STRAUB JAMES SEAGO JAMES MICKLE W ESHBAUGH LUCINDA MCDADE MARTIN GOFFINET LINDA WATSON FRANK EWERS RICHARD WHITKUS LEE KASS RAHMONA THOMPSON GAR ROTHWELL S COSTANZA ALFRED TRAVERSE EDWARD SCHNEIDER LYNN CLARK GREGORY OWENS VICKI FUNK TED DELEVORYAS LINDA GRAHAM JEFFREY OSBORN BRENDA CASPER KELLY STEELE EDITH TAYLOR PETER CURTIS LAFAYETTE FREDERICK GREAYER MANSFIELD-JONES HARRY HORNER ANDREW SCHNABEL TODD COOKE WILSON CRONE ROBERT CRUDEN PAMELA SOLTIS DAVID INOUYE DARLEEN DEMASON REGIS MILLER BRIGITTE MEYER-BERTHAUD JUDITH SKOG L MOE SUSAN EICHHORN DANIEL GLADISH CLAUDIA JOLLS KENT HOLSINGER RAY EVERT EDITH ALLEN PATRICIA GENSEL PAMELA DIGGLE JOSEPH ARMSTRONG RUDOLPH SERBET 126 Plant Science Bulletin 57(4) 2011 Thank-You BONNIE JACOBS LINDA BROADHURST SHING-FAN HUANG PATRICIA SCHULZ KATHLEEN KRON ANDREW DOUST IRENE TERRY BELEN ESTEBANEZ PEREZ HONGQI LI PETER YSER M WOJCIECHOWSKI BRAD OBERLE JOSEPH COLOSI TAKAHIDE KUROSAWA JOHN SPENCE WILLIAM CHEADLE BLANCA LEON STEFAN GLEISSBERG JASON HILTON FRANCIS HUEBER MARILYN LOVELESS MARK MAYFIELD NANCY COUTANT PATRICIA VALELLA EISHO NISHINO MAC ALFORD LUC BROUILLET MICHELLE SMITH BRENDA MOLANO-FLORES JOHN CHOINSKI BRIGITTE MARAZZI RACHEL WILSON LAURA GOUGH DONNA HAZELWOOD ANDREA WAKEFIELD AMANDA KENNEY LAWRENCE GILES PETER WILF CAROL LANDRY ALLISON SCHWARTZ ALISON ROBERTS ATSUSHI YABE NAOMI FRAGA JERRY MILLER JOAN NESTER-HUDSON ANDREA WEEKS LARS GÖTZENBERGER RAFAEL AREVALO BURBANO STEVE RICE AMY LITT LEAH DUDLEY LARYSSA BALDRIDGE LISA SCHULTHEIS BOHDAN DZIADYK GRANT BARKLEY BRANDON SINN NAN ARENS SEAN GRAHAM PAUL CURTIN J SHIPMAN WESLEY LEVERICH NINA BAGHAI-RIDING AMANDA GRUSZ LLUVIA HILDA FLORES RENTERÍA LUCINDA SWATZELL ELIZABETH HERMSEN MARGARET CONOVER CHRISTIAN LIRIANO KATHERINE PRESTON STEFAN LITTLE CYRILLE PRESTIANNI FREDERIC PITRE NICHOLAS MCLETCHIE RICHARD WURDACK REBECCA DRENOVSKY STEFANO CASTIGLIONE CAROL GOODWILLIE DON WALLER BRENDA GREWELL SUSAN ROLFSMEIER MARTHA COOK COLIN ORIANS ANNA JACOBSEN MARLENE LIPINSKI TODD VISION WENDY ZOMLEFER JANELLE BURKE TOM HORTON JUN YOKOYAMA LYTTON MUSSELMAN AMY BERKOV SIMONE CAPPELLARI CAROL DAWSON NANCY COWDEN VIRGIL PARKER JESICA LIE JOSEPH WILLIAMS CAROLINE STROMBERG KEVIN POTTER JEFFREY FIRESTONE MELANIE DEVORE SALLY NORTON ANN KELSEY RALPH QUATRANO MARIA GANDOLFO CLARE HASENKAMPF STEFAN KIRCHANSKI KAREN HALL HARUFUMI NISHIDA CHRISTOPHER RANDLE MARILYN MARYNICK PEDRO DIAS THOMAS GIVNISH KEVIN DOUGHERTY HYOSIG WON JOCELYN HALL BONNIE ISAAC OLGA KOPP SUSAN PELL HAZEL GORDON LUKE MANDER JANICE COONS KATRINA DLUGOSCH 127 Plant Science Bulletin 57(4) 2011 Students Urge Lawmakers to Invest Educational Resources for Botany (ERB) in Science Have you ever needed a good idea for a lab or the More than 2,900 students pursuing a Ph.D., perfect image for a PowerPoint slide and couldn’t Master’s, or bachelor’s degree in science, technology, find one? 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