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Botany has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
June 2, 2012	Good article nominee	Listed
September 7, 2013	Peer review	Reviewed
September 16, 2013	Featured article candidate	Not promoted

Current status: Good article

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