在几个行业中，植物生物学家需要进行重要的研究和保护。与凤凰城的沙漠植物园合作提供的这一独特的硕士学位课程具有三个重点领域，可帮助满足在瞬息万变的世界中保护植物资源的需求：植物科学，定量技能和人类规模。保护解决了学术机构，政府机构和非政府组织对植物学家和保护生物学家的日益增长的需求。MS的植物生物学和保护计划为学生提供了植物生态学，进化和植物学以及保护生物学的理论和实践方面的高级培训。学生有机会与ASU和位于ASU坦佩校区附近的沙漠植物园的教职员工和研究人员合作。
Plants are fundamental to life on Earth. Conducted jointly by ASU and the Desert Botanical Garden, this program nurtures future plant and environmental biologists by equipping them with quantitative skills and human dimensions in dealing with global climate change, food insecurity and loss of biodiversity. The MS program in plant biology and conservation provides students with advanced training in plant molecular and cellular biology, biotechnology, functional genomics, paleobotany, ecology, evolution and floristics, as well as in theory and practice of conservation biology.<br><br>Students have the opportunity to work with faculty and researchers from ASU and the Desert Botanical Garden, located in Phoenix near ASU's Tempe campus.