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Bulletin 56(1) 2010 BULLETIN SPRING 2010 VOLUME 56 NUMBER 1 Plant Science Bulletin 56(1) 2010 BULLETIN SPRING 2010 VOLUME 56 NUMBER 1 2010, The International Year of Biodiversity.............................................................2 News from the Society Congratulations to the new BSA “AAAS Fellows”...................................2 American Journal of Botany launches new section for Primer Notes and Protocols.....................................................................................3 Approaching deadlines for 2010 Award Nominations...............................4 Call for Nominations: BSA Corresponding Members................................4 IF YOU HAVEN’T DONE SO YET.........................................................4 Addendum...................................................................................................4 Student News..............................................................................................5 BSA President’s letter to Office of Science and Technology Policy..........6 BSA Science Education News and Notes...................................................8 Education Committee..................................................................................9 News from the Sections Economic Botany......................................................................................10 Historical...................................................................................................10 Teaching....................................................................................................11 Northeastern .............................................................................................11 Personalia David Dilcher awarded honorary University of Minnesota doctorate.....13 Courses/Workshops Experience in Tropical Botany.................................................................14 Other News Hunt Institute host annual Linnaeus Link meeting...................................15 Kew discovers new plant species in one of its own glasshouses.............15 Reports and Reviews Botany in Romania, Highlighting its Endangered Plant Species..............15 Using Bottles to Study Shade Responses of Seedlings and Other Plants........................................................................................................23 The Botanical Society of America: for ALL Plant Biologists Books Reviewed in this Issue................................................................................30 Books Received.......................................................................................................47 PLANT SCIENCE American Journal of Botany Certificate.............................................................47 Botany 2010.............................................................................................................48 THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Leading Scientists and Educators since 1893 ISSN 0032-0919 1 Plant Science Bulletin 56(1) 2010 News from the Society Congratulations to the new BSA “AAAS Fellows” The Botanical Society of America is pleased to recognize our members who have recently been What better way is there to begin a celebration elected as fellows of the American Association of the International Year of Biodiversity than to for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). feature the biodiversity of a little-known country, in this case Romania. In our first feature article, Election as a Fellow of AAAS is an honor the BSA International Affairs Committee bestowed upon members by their peers in presents another in its series of national recognition of their efforts to advance science or profiles. Co-authored by one of the Society’s its applications. Our colleagues will be among newest corresponding members, Anka Sarbu, the 531 members recognized at the Fellows and by Anitra Thorhaug, chair of the BSA Forum on 20 February 2010 during the AAAS International Affairs committee, Botany in Annual Meeting in San Diego. Romania showcases some of the endangered species of this very central and large nation in Dr. Darleen DeMason Eastern Europe that is little known to most University of California, Riverside botanists and contains one of the few intact forest systems in Europe. In our second feature article, David W. Lee and Eric von Wettberg present the inaugral peer- reviewed paper published in the Plant Science Bulletin. This “bottle biology” project uses commercially available shading materials to differentiate plant responses between shading conditions due to reduced light intensity alone, or in combination with reduced R/Fr simulating shading under plant cover. Modifications would be appropriate for high school level through college plant physiology courses. For pioneering research into germination and The die for peer-reviewed articles in PSB is development of plants and exemplary now cast, but we depend on your contributions leadership in campus administration and for this effort to succeed. professional societies. - The Editor PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN ISSN 0032-0919 Published quarterly by Botanical Society of America, Inc., 4475 Castleman Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299. The yearly subscription rate of $15 is included in the membership dues of the Botanical Society of America, Inc. Periodical postage paid at St. Louis, MO and additional mailing office. Address Editorial Matters (only) to: POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Marshall D. Sundberg, Editor Botanical Society of America Dept. Biol. Sci., Emporia State Univ. Business Office 1200 Commercial St. P.O. Box 299 Emporia, KS 66801-5057 St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 Phone 620-341-5605 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] 2 Plant Science Bulletin 56(1) 2010 Dr. Susan Singer Dr. David Spooner Dr. Stephen Weller Carleton College University of Wisconsin-Madison University of California, Irvine For outstanding contributions For distinguished work in For distinguished contri- to science education, systematics, evolution, and butions to the field of particularly inquiry activities the domestication of evolutionary ecology, involving plants and potatoes, tomatoes and their including the evolution of undergraduate research wild relatives. reproductive systems in experiences. plants and the quantative genetic basis of sex allocation. American Journal of Botany microsatellite or other markers in particular launches new section for taxa, and protocol notes, which describe new methods for isolating, visualizing, or scoring Primer Notes and Protocols genetic markers. “It is exciting to now have the opportunity to The American Journal of Botany (AJB) has just publish innovative and timely genetic launched a new online-only section: AJB Primer information within such an influential journal Notes & Protocols in the Plant Sciences. This as the AJB,” said Theresa Culley, Associate new section will promote the rapid Professor at the University of Cincinnati. ”Plant dissemination of protocols used in the genetic biologists now have a new outlet with a rapid analyses of plants. response rate and greater flexibility where they can share their important genetic discoveries Articles for this section will include marker within the botanical community.” notes, which provide primer sequences for -continued on Page 13 PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN Editorial Committee for Volume 56 Nina L. Baghai-Riding (2010) Jenny Archibald (2011) Root Gorelick (2012) Division of Biological and Department of Ecology Department of Biology Physical Sciences and Evolutionary Biology Carleton University Delta State University The University of Kansas Ottawa, Ontario Cleveland, MS 38677 Lawrence, Kansas 66045 Canada, K1H 5N1 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Elizabeth Schussler (2013) Christopher Martine Department of Ecology and Department of Biology Evolutionary Biology State University of New York University of Tennessee at Plattsburgh Knoxville, TN 37996-1610 Plattsburgh, NY 12901-2681 [email protected] [email protected] 3 Plant Science Bulletin 56(1) 2010 Approaching deadlines for support. It is preferable for nominations to be made 2010 Award Nominations without knowledge of the nominee. Nominations March 15th must be received by 1 April 2010 to be BSA Awards - General considered for award of corresponding BSA Merit Award membership at Society business meeting at http://www.botany.org/awards_grants/calls/ the Botany 2010 Conference in Providence, 2007merit.pdf Rhode Island, on Tuesday, August 2, 2010. Please use the nominating form available on Charles E. Bessey Teaching Award the BSA webpage at: http://www.botany.org/awards_grants/calls/ http://www.botany.org/membership/Call- 2007bessey.pdf CorrespondingMembers.asp BSA Awards - Students Please email all other materials as PDF files Young Botanist of the Year to the BSA Executive Director at Undergraduate Student Research Awards [email protected]. John S. Karling & BSA Graduate Student Thank you for your contributions. 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