In a major effort to speed up the process of officially recognizing new plant species, botanists will no longer be required to provide Latin descriptions of new species, and publication in online academic journals and books will be considered as valid as print publication.

Researchers at Uppsala University has succeeded in extracting long DNA fragments from dried, pressed plant material collected in the 1700s by Linnaeus' apprentice Adam Afzelius.

By Schabas, Margaret Man alone among living things knows that he has evolved. Man alone is able to decide what direction or directions he desires his own future evolution to follow, and can set about acquiring the knowledge he needs to achieve the desired results.

By Soltis, Pamela S Plants: We depend on them for

By Mortensen, Kristine One of the most significant scientists ever to emerge from Scandinavia was Carl Linnaeus, the Father of Taxonomy.