Careers in Botany
A qualification in botany prepares you for a diverse range of career paths, from researching plant genes and molecules to exploring the world’s ecosystems and discovering new species.
Botanists have contributed to the production of disease and pest resistant crops that can better survive environmental stresses and have increased nutritional value. Botanists have also engineered plants that can be utilised as ‘chemical factories’, producing industrial compounds including plastics and pharmaceuticals such as antibiotics.
Just some of the potential career paths for botanists include:
- Environmental consultant or scientist
- Plant disease control
- Marine biology
- Conservation management
- Plant biochemistry
- Plant molecular biology
- Cell biologist
- Plant genetic engineering
- Crop breeder
- Plant pathology
- Forensic science
- Ecotourism consultant
- Biotechnology researcher
- Pharmaceutical researcher
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