Society for Economic Botany
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| Motto | Fostering research and education on the past, present, and future uses of plants by people |
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| Formation | 1959 |
| Purpose | Furthering economic botany |
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Region
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Worldwide |
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Official language
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English |
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President
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Steven Casper |
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Main organ
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Council |
| Website | www |
The Society for Economic Botany is an international learned society covering the field of economic botany. It was established in 1959. Its official journal is Economic Botany, published on their behalf by Springer Science+Business Media and the New York Botanical Garden Press. The society also publishes a biannual newsletter, Plants and People. The president is Steven Casper (Cheverly, MD, United States). The society organizes annual meetings at different locations around the world, where it awards the prize of Distinguished Economic Botanist to particularly meritorious individuals.
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