Welcome to the resource page for Plant Biology at Wright State. The Department of Biological Sciences is a broad-based department with faculty representing many scientific disciplines within Biology. While our department has no formal program in plant biology, we do have a number of faculty members with research and teaching interests in plant-related subjects, making plant biology as well represented in our department as any other subject within Biology. Through the proper choice of courses, coupled with research experience, undergraduate students can get nearly as much of an emphasis in plant biology from our department as they would from a formal Botany department. Whether you are interested in molecular biology, whole-organism physiology, or field ecology, you can do your research using plants. For example, current and past students interested in plants have performed research in basic ecology, demography, plant physiology, genetics, restoration ecology, and ecotoxicology, at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Jobs in the plant sciences are very diverse, depending upon your interests, and can be found with parks and conservation groups, at universities and research institutes, in the agricultural and horticultural industries, and with the government. On this site, you can find information about our plant-related faculty, as well as information about resources available to students and faculty for plant-related research, a listing of courses in plant-related subjects, as well as links to plant-related information and job sites.