Talk:Botany/Microbes

I started adding to this page, but it may not be totally in line with the how the chapter was planned initially:

Chapter 1 begins like this (now): Botany is the branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of plants. Traditionally, botanists studied all organisms that were not generally regarded as animal. However, advances in our knowledge about the myriad forms of life, especially microbes (viruses and bacteria), have led to spinning off from Botany the specialized field called Microbiology. Still, the microbes are usually covered in introductory Botany courses, although their status as neither animal nor plant is firmly established

This sounds like chapter 6 should be about bacteria en viruses in general. However, I am focussing on plant pathogenic bacteria and viruses - I think that makes more sense in the context of this textbook. I you think different - please tell me how you think it should be done.

Aletta 20:30, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)