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.