''Botany'' is a monthly

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. It was established in 1935 as the ''Canadian Journal of Research, Section C: Botanical Sciences'' and renamed in 1951 as ''Canadian Journal of Botany''. It covers research on all aspects of

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. The journal was selected as one of the DBIO 100, the 100 most influential journals in biology and medicine over the last 100 years, as voted by the BioMedical & Life Sciences Division of the

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are Christian R. Lacroix (

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) and

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