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BULLETINPlant Science Bulletin 56(3) 2010 FALL 2010 VOLUME 56 NUMBER 3 Newest Release of the Plant Ontology Available September 2010.....102 News from the Society News from the Annual Meeting Awards.............................................................................................103 Plenary Lecture, Botany 2010. Darwinian Grandeur, Darwininan Conflict: America’s Continuing Problem with Evolution. Kenneth R. Miller............................................................................................104 President-elect’s address, The A.R.O.M.A. of Botany. Judith E. Skog..................................................................................................106 BSA Education News and Notes.......................................................110 In Memoriam Francis Theodore Haxo, 1921-2010..........................................114 Charles B. Heiser, 1920-2010...................................................115 Armen Takhtajan, 1910-2009......................................................118 Lawrence J. Crockett.....................................................................119 Personalia Arboretum Hires New Director,Edward L. Schneider.............120 Professor Loren Henry Rieseberg FRS....................................120 Award Opportunities American Philosophical Society, Research Programs..........121 The Rupert Barneby Award..........................................................121 Other News How prepared is the U.S. to meet future botanical challenges?...222 Reports and Reviews Planting memories: What students learned about plants from a conservatory field trip...Mary L. Keppler, Elisabeth E. Schussler........................................................................................126 The Botanical Society of America: for ALL Plant Biologists Books Reviewed............................................................................................134 Books Received.............................................................................................146 PLANT SCIENCE Botany 2011....................................................................................................148 THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Leading Scientists and Educators since 1893 ISSN 0032-0919 101 Plant Science Bulletin 56(3) 2010 How prepared is the U.S. to meet future Newest Release of the Plant botanical challenges? This is a question we Ontology Available September set out to answer last year when Society members were invited to participate in a survey 2010 to determine the Botanical Capacity of the United States. The report is in (p 118) and its The latest release of the Plant Ontology (PO) recommendations are timely for this issue will be available at http://plantontology.org by given the focus of our recent annual meeting in the end of September, 2010. The PO is a Providence. structured vocabulary that is designed to facilitate cross-database querying and to foster At the plenary session Professor Kenneth R. consistent use of plant terminology in Miller challenged the membership to engage annotations. The main goal of this round of in the attack against science and scientific revisions was to create a framework that could reasoning , not just the resistance to teaching accept new terms from all plants, from algae to evolution in our classrooms (p 104). As noted angiosperms, making it easier to incorporate in the article, Professor Miller’s PowerPoint these terms into future releases. presentation is available on the BSA web page. This release includes an extensive re- Bookending the meeting was President Skog’s organization of the Plant Structure Ontology. ode to The A.R.O.M.A. of botany ( p. 106) New top-level terms were added, new presented at the banquet. It is up to us to definitions were written for many terms provide the final “A.” - - for Action - - to drive a new (including all top-level terms), plus the second “aSCENT of Botany” as a scientific discipline. and third levels of the ontology were extensively As noted by Skog, this must involve outreach re-organized. In addition, some minimal into the schools. changes have been made to the Plant Growth and Developmental Stage Ontology. Effectively communicating about plants to school children is the focus of the article by Throughout the revision process, the curators Keppler and Schussler (p. 122). If we are going worked to incorporate new advances in ontology to have a truely broader impact about plants in design and construction, including the use of the schools, we must collaborate with and logical text and relational definitions and apply the principles learned by our professional references to external ontologies where botanical educator colleagues. Botanists have appropriate. A more detailed summary of the a tradition of leading science education - - now changes made to the ontology is available at is the time to follow our leaders. http://wiki.plantontology.org:8080/index.php/ Summary_of_changes_to_the_Plant_Ontology. -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] 102 Plant Science Bulletin 56(3) 2010 News from the Society Robert G. Franks and Qiu-Yun (Jenny) Xiang. News from the Annual Maynard Moseley Award (Paleobotanical and Developmental and Structural Sections) Meeting The Maynard F. Moseley Award was established in 1995 to honor a career of dedicated teaching, Awards scholarship, and service to the furtherance of Isabel Cookson Award (Paleobotanical the botanical sciences. Dr. Moseley, known to Section) his students as “Dr. Mo,” died Jan. 16, 2003 in Established in 1976, the Isabel Cookson Award Santa Barbara, CA, where he had been a recognizes the best student paper presented professor since 1949. He was widely in the Paleobotanical Section. recognized for his enthusiasm for and dedication to teaching and his students, as Andrew Leslie of the University of Chicago, is well as for his research using floral and wood the 2010 award recipient for the paper titled, anatomy to understand the systematics and “Exploring the Role of Pollen Flotation in the evolution of angiosperm taxa, especially Reproductive Biology of Ancient waterlilies. (PSB, Spring, 2003). The award is Gymnosperms.” given to the best student paper, presented in either the Paleobotanical or Developmental Katherine Esau Award (Developmental and and Structural sessions, that advances our Structural Section) understanding of plant structure in an This award was established in 1985 with a gift evolutionary context. from Dr. Esau and is augmented by ongoing contributions from Section members. It is given Natalie Pabon Mora, from the Graduate Center to the graduate student who presents the CUNY/ New York Botanical Garden, is the 2010 outstanding paper in developmental and Moseley Award recipient, for her paper “The structural botany at the annual meeting. role of APETALA1/FRUITFULL genes in non- core eudicots.” Her co-author was Amy Litt. This year’s award goes to Jessica Budke, from University of Connecticut, for the paper Emanuel D. Rudolph Award (Historical Section) “Beneath the Calyptra’s Veil: Exploring Cuticle The Emanuel D. Rudolph Award is given by the Anatomy during Moss Sporophyte Historical Section of the BSA for the best student Development.” Co-authors were Bernard presentation/poster of a historical nature at the Goffinet and Cynthia S. Jones. annual meetings. Honorable Mention - Chunmiao Feng, North This year’s award goes to Philip Marshall, Yale Carolina State University, for the paper University, School of Forestry & Environmental “Evolutionary developmental study of Studies, for his presentation: “Pinus strobus L. inflorescence in Cornus.” Co-authors were and the historical utilization and management PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN Nina L. Baghai-Riding (2010) Editorial Committee for Volume 56 Root Gorelick (2012) Division of Biological and Jenny Archibald (2011) Department of Biology Physical Sciences Department of Ecology Carleton University Delta State University and Evolutionary Biology Ottawa, Ontario Cleveland, MS 38733 The University of Kansas Canada, K1H 5N1 [email protected] Lawrence, Kansas 66045 [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] 103 Plant Science Bulletin 56(3) 2010 of southern New England forests, 1600-1938.” poster, “Fitness-Related Traits of Cultivated vs. Wild Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum): A.J. Sharp Award (Bryological and Implications for Widespread Planting of Biofuel Lichenological Section) Cultivars.” Co-author, Allison Snow. The A.J. Sharp Award is presented each year by the American Bryological and Lichenological Southeastern Section - Association of Society and the Bryological and Lichenological Southeastern Biologists,