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Nature 402, 109-110 (11 November 1999) | doi:10.1038/45869

US universities find that demand for botanists exceeds supply

Rex Dalton

Plant systematists, once desperate for academic jobs, have become hot property, aggressively pursued by US universities seeking to be at the forefront of biodiversity research in the new millennium.Universities have engaged in bidding wars for leading plant systematists as if they were prized professional athletes.