A botanist is a biological scientist who studies plants.
These professionals usually specialize in one type or a certain group of plants (there are over three hundred thousand species!); botanists can also focus on one approach to the study of plants.
As a result, there are a lot of different types of botanists.
Agronomists, for example, specialize in the study of agricultural crops; plant taxonomists identify and classify the plants; marine botanists focus on the species that grow in the ocean, and so on.
A botanist can work in colleges, universities; in such fields as conservation, horticulture, agriculture, forestry, agronomy, etc.
These scientists can help us develop new food sources and even find treatments for such diseases as…cancer!