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PLANT SCIENCE Bulletin Fall 2013 Volume 59 Number 3 PLANT SCIENCE Bulletin Fall 2013 Volume 59 Number 3 Botany in Action - in New Orleans! In This Issue.............. More BSA awards announced at PlantingScience mentors Botany 2013!.....p. 146 Botany 2013.....p. 80 make a difference.....p. 90 From the Editor PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN The good news these days is about resources. There is so much information readily available on the internet Editorial Committee that one hardly needs to leave the office to work on a Volume 59 literature review or gather information for a lecture. The first step—Google it! The bad news these days is Elizabeth Schussler about resources. There is so much information readily (2013) available on the internet that one could spend hours Department of Ecology & sorting through possible sites to find the information Evolutionary Biology you want. What we need is a resource that has done University of Tennessee the dirty work of searching what is available and evalu- Knoxville, TN 37996-1610 ating its usefulness. That resource has been provided [email protected] for botanical and lichenological systematic research by Morgan Gostel, Manuela Dal-Forno, and Andrea Weeks in this issue. This is also a great resource to use for teaching images. Christopher Martine (2014) In our other feature article, Melanie Link-Pérez and Department of Biology Elizabeth Schussler demonstrate that resources, by Bucknell University themselves, are not enough to support grade-school Lewisburg, PA 17837 teachers in their efforts to introduce plant science to [email protected] students. At this age the kids love plants and so do the teachers, and the teachers are anxious to find and use resources to help them incorporate plants into the curriculum. What they need even more, however, is Carolyn M. Wetzel greater exposure to plant-based activities in their pre- (2015) service training. Are you looking for broader impact? Department of Biological Sci- Here is a defined target to aim for. Collaborations with ences & Biochemistry Program individual schools or individuals teachers are great, Smith College but collaborations with teacher trainers in education Northampton, MA 01063 departments will have much greater overall impact. Tel. 413/585-3687 By the way, if you were not in New Orleans, you missed a GREAT conference. It took the Society 37 years to go back to New Orleans for an annual meet- Lindsey K. Tuominen ing, but I don’t think we’ll wait that long to visit again. (2016) But that’s behind us now, and mostly below sea level. Warnell School of Forestry & Next year we’ll be back on higher ground—look for- Natural Resources ward to Boise. The University of Georgia Athens, GA 30605 [email protected] -Marsh Daniel K. Gladish (2017) Department of Botany & The Conservatory Miami University Hamilton, OH 45011 [email protected] Fall 2013 Volume 59 Number 3 Table of Contents Society News More Awards for Botany 2013 .........................................................................................80 Second Annual BSA Public Policy Committee Capitol Hill Visit ....................................85 BSA Seeks Editor for the Plant Science Bulletin .............................................................87 Botany in Action in New Orleans .....................................................................................88 BSA Science Education News and Notes ......................................................90 Editor’s Choice Review .................................................................................94 Announcements Bullard Fellowships in Forest Research ...........................................................................95 American Philosophical Society Grants ...........................................................................95 English - Spanish/Spanish - English Dictionary of Botany Now Available .....................96 A Learning Gap is Filled with Plants ...............................................................................97 Reports How Teachers Teach about Plants ....................................................................................99 A Navigation Guide to Cyberinfrastructure Tools for Botanical and Lichenological Systematics Research . ..........................................................................................111 Book Reviews Bryological .....................................................................................................................131 Developmental and Structural ........................................................................................133 Ecological .......................................................................................................................134 Economic Botany ...........................................................................................................136 Systematics ....................................................................................................................138 Books Received ...........................................................................................144 The Boise Center July 26-30, 2014 www.2014.botanyconference.org 77 Plant Science Bulletin 59(3) 2013 78 Plant Science Bulletin 59(3) 2013 Congratulations to all Botany 2013 Award Winners For a complete listing of Awards and Winners see: http://www.botany.org/awards_grants/2013Awardrecipients.php 79 Society News Award Winners GIVEN BY THE SECTIONS In the last edition of the Plant Science Bulletin Margaret Menzel (http://www.botany.org/plantsciencebulletin/PSB- Award (Genetics Section) 2013-59-2.pdf), we listed a number of Botanical Society of America award winners. We’re pleased to The Margaret Menzel Award is presented by continue the list of winners in the following pages. the Genetics Section for the outstanding paper presented in the contributed papers sessions of the annual meetings. Jeanette Siron Pelton Award This year’s award goes to Dr. Ingrid Jordon- Thaden, University of Florida, for the paper The Jeanette Siron Pelton Award is given for “Differential gene expression and loss in two natural sustained and imaginative productivity in the field and synthetic allotetraploid Tragopogon species of experimental plant morphology. (Asteraceae) and their diploid progenitors” Professor Mitsuyasu Hasebe, National Institute Co-authors: Lyderson Viccini, Richard Buggs, for Basic Biology (Japan) Michael Chester, Ana Veruska Cruz Da Silva, Srikar Chamala, Ruth Davenport, Wei Wu, Patrick The 2013 Grady L. Webster S. Schnable, W. Brad Barbazuk, Douglas Soltis and Pamela Soltis Award http://www.botanyconference.org/engine/ This award was established in 2006 by Dr. search/index.php?func=detail&aid=936 Barbara D. Webster, Grady’s wife, and Dr. Susan V. Webster, his daughter, to honor the life and work of Dr. Grady L. Webster. The American Society of Plant Taxonomists and the Botanical Society of George R. Cooley Award America are pleased to join together in honoring (Systematics Section and Grady Webster. the American Society of Plant Drs. Jessica M. Budke, Bernard Taxonomists) Goffinet, and Cynthia S. Jones. The The ASPT’s Cooley Award is given for the best cuticle on the gametophyte calyptra paper in systematics given at the annual meeting matures before the sporophyte cuticle in the by a botanist in the early stages of his/her career. moss Funaria hygrometrica (Funariaceae) Awards are made to members of ASPT who are American Journal of Botany, 2012, 99(1): 14-22 graduate students or within 5 years of their post- http://www.amjbot.org/content/99/1/14.full. doctoral careers. The Cooley Award is given for pdf+html work judged to be substantially complete, synthetic, and original. First authorship required; graduate students or those within 5 years of finishing their Ph.D. are eligible; must be a member of ASPT at time of abstract submission; only one paper judged per candidate. This year’s award was given to Ricardo Kriebel of the New York Botanical Garden for the talk “Phylogenetic study of Conostegia demonstrates the utility of anatomical and continuous characters in the systematics of the Melastomataceae.” Co- author: Fabian Michelangeli http://www.botanyconference.org/engine/ search/index.php?func=detail&aid=584 80 Plant Science Bulletin 59(3) 2013 A.J. Sharp Award The recipient of the Award is selected from (Bryological and Lichenological candidates nominated by their major professors. Section) Nominees may be from any country and the Award is made strictly on the basis of merit—the recipient’s The A.J. Sharp Award is presented each year by the general scholarly promise and significance of the American Bryological and Lichenological Society research proposed. The Award Committee includes and the Bryological and Lichenological Section for representatives from the Hunt Institute, The Hunt the best student presentation. The award, named Foundation, the Lawrence family, and the botanical in honor of the late Jack Sharp, encourages student community. research on bryophytes and lichens. The Lawrence Memorial Award for 2013 goes This year’s A.J. Sharp Award goes to Matthew to Aleksandar Radosavljevic, student of Dr. Nelsen, University of Chicago, for his paper Patrick Herendeen of the Chicago Botanical “Lichen-associated algae: we hardly know you.” Co- Garden and Northwestern University. The proceeds author: Steven D. Leavitt of the award will help support his travel for field http://www.botanyconference.org/engine/ and collections-based work in integrative research search/index.php?func=detail&aid=832 study of the genus Cynometra. BSA Public
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