Botany: a fundamental or an applied science?

Abstract

Examples of interactions between endophytic microorganisms and their host-plants are used to show the importance of Botany for biotechnology development and biodiversity preservation. Conclusion: the current hollistic view on sciences makes distinctions between basic and applied aspects of science irrelevant, mainly when biological sciences are taken into account, as is the case of Botany.

Biotechnology; biodiversity; plant-microbes interactions; endophytes