The Center for Botany is a research hub for botanical sciences at UW–Madison. Housed in the Department of Biology, the center enables collaborative leadership in botany and allied disciplines across campus, nationally, and internationally by developing and sustaining excellence in plant, fungal and algal research, education and outreach. Members discover, archive and communicate knowledge of basic plan, fungal and algal biology across scales, from genes to ecosystems using both established and new approaches.

The center is a catalyst to promote botanical research and outreach in new and innovative ways. While the focus of the center is basic science, it also works to address Earth’s biodiversity crisis and to discover and implement plant-based solutions to emerging problems in our state, country, and the world.

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