协会简介
美国植物协会（Botanical Society of America，BSA）是 501(c)(3) 非营利会员制组织，1893 年从美国科学促进会（A.A.A.S.）下属的植物学俱乐部独立而来，1895 年 8 月 27—28 日在马萨诸塞州斯普林菲尔德召开首届理事会会议，首任理事长是来自密苏里植物园的 William Trelease。协会的英文缩写 BSA 在学界使用得更广，会员覆盖 80 多个国家的植物学家、教师和学生，是英语世界覆盖面最广的植物学专业组织之一。
历史沿革
1906 年协会与同年合并的植物形态与生理学会（1896 年成立）和美国真菌学会（1903 年成立）合并，奠定现在的规模。1914 年 2 月 Brooklyn Botanic Garden 出版第一期《美国植物学杂志》（American Journal of Botany，ISSN 0002-9122），由密歇根大学的 F. C. Newcombe 担任首任主编。1955 年起又办《植物学通报》（Plant Science Bulletin，ISSN 0032-0919），作为协会内部交流刊物。2009 年起 AJB 设立 Primer Notes & Protocols in the Plant Sciences 在线栏目，2013 年独立为《植物科学应用》（Applications in Plant Sciences，APPS，ISSN 2168-0450）。
组织架构
协会下设 15 个专项兴趣组（苔藓与地衣、发育与结构、生态学、经济植物学、遗传学、历史学、古植物学、藻类学、生理学与生态生理学、植物化学、本科教学机构、蕨类学、系统学、教学与热带生物学），另设 2 个地理分会（东北分会和东南分会）。理事会 1982 年起改为理事长、当选理事长、前任理事长三段轮值制（Barbara D. Webster 为首任当选理事长），1964 年起增设项目主任以加强年会组织。历任理事长、刊物主编均有公开存档。
出版物与奖项
四份期刊与一份通讯之外，协会每年颁出 20 余项奖助学金，覆盖早期研究人员、中年研究人员、学生与博士后三大群体，包括 Bessey 教学奖、Cichan 古植物学研究奖、Corresponding Members（通讯院士）、Emerging Leader Award、Public Policy Award、AJB Synthesis Papers and Prize、Young Botanist Awards、Mid-Career Excellence in Research Award 等；2027 年奖项申报已从 1 月开始分批开放。
使命与方向
协会将自身定位为「植物学及相关领域的国际学术家园」，重点支持基础研究、教学与多样性、公平、包容（DEI）工作；2021 年理事会通过《战略规划》，把研究方向聚焦在研究质量提升、组织对外影响力、专业发展、多样性公平包容四大方向。协会还运营面向中小学师生的 PlantingScience 公益项目和 Botany360 学术交流平台，所有期刊自 1914 年起对会员免费开放。
About the Society
The Botanical Society of America (BSA) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit membership society founded in 1893 as an offshoot of the Botanical Club of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Its first Council meeting was held on 27–28 August 1895 in Springfield, Massachusetts, with William Trelease of the Missouri Botanical Garden as the inaugural President. Today the Society lists members in more than 80 countries and is one of the broadest plant-science professional organisations in the English-speaking world.
Historical Background
In 1906 the Society absorbed the Society for Plant Morphology and Physiology (founded 1896) and the American Mycological Society (founded 1903), setting the scope that has defined it since. The American Journal of Botany (AJB, ISSN 0002-9122 print / 1537-2197 electronic) was first issued in February 1914 by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, with F. C. Newcombe of the University of Michigan as the founding Editor-in-Chief. The Plant Science Bulletin (ISSN 0032-0919 / 1537-9752) followed in 1955. The online Applications in Plant Sciences (APPS, ISSN 2168-0450) began as AJB Primer Notes & Protocols in 2009 and became an independent journal in 2013.
Organizational Structure
BSA is organised into 15 special-interest sections covering bryology and lichenology, developmental and structural botany, ecology, economic botany, genetics, historical botany, paleobotany, phycology, physiology and ecophysiology, phytochemistry, primarily undergraduate institutions, pteridology, systematics, teaching, and tropical biology, alongside two geographic sections (Northeastern and Southeastern). The 1982 bylaw revision introduced a three-year President Elect / President / Past President rotation, with Barbara D. Webster serving as the first President Elect, and a Program Director role was added in 1964 to support the annual scientific conference.
Publications and Awards
Beyond the four journals, BSA each year administers more than twenty named awards and grants spanning early-career, mid-career, and student researchers. Examples include the Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award, the Michael Cichan Paleobotanical Research Grant, the Corresponding Members honour, the Emerging Leader Award, the Public Policy Award, the AJB Synthesis Papers and Prize, Young Botanist Awards, and the BSA Mid-Career Excellence in Research Award. The 2027 award cycle opened in stages beginning in January, with deadlines concentrated from January through April.
Mission and Direction
The Society frames itself as the international scholarly home for botany and allied fields, with explicit commitments to basic research, teaching, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The 2021 BSA Strategic Plan concentrates effort on Research and Scholarly Excellence, Organisational Impact and Visibility, Professional Development, and Human Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. BSA also runs PlantingScience, a free online outreach programme linking classroom teachers with volunteer scientists, and Botany360, a year-round scientific exchange platform; the full AJB archive from 1914 is freely accessible to current members.
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