COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CLASSIFYING PLANTS
COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CLASSIFYING PLANTS
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DOI：
10.1126/science.132.3434.1115
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发表时间：
1960-01-01
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影响因子：
56.9
通讯作者：
TANIMOTO, TT
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作者：
ROGERS, DJ;TANIMOTO, TT
植物的完整分类还远未实现。植物是一个动态的、不断变化的生物群体，没有一个分类学家期望有一个“完整的”分类系统。尽管如此，绝不能忽视最终能够而且应该产生一个彻底的、综合的系统的可能性。即使不再探索新的领域，即使不再收集植物并储存在世界植物标本馆中，现有的标本数量仍将为分类学家提供足够的研究材料，使他们至少在未来沿着目前的路线继续进行研究。一个更令人沮丧的事实是，植物分类学家往往忽视与我们关系最密切的植物，即栽培物种。
A complete classification of plants is far from realization. Being well aware that plants form a dynamic, ever-changing group of organisms, no taxonomist ever expects a" complete" system of classification. Nevertheless, the possibility that a thorough, integrated system can and should eventually be produced must not be dismissed. If no more new areas were to be explored, if no more collections of plants were to be made and stored in the world's herbaria, the number of specimens already on hand would still provide taxonomists with sufficient re-search material to continue their activity along present lines for at least another 50 years. An even more dismal fact is that plant taxonomists tend to neglect the plants with which we are most intimately associated, the cultivated species.