Botanical Scanning is a technology on the Diplomacy and Trading technology tree with a research cost of 300 
. It unlocks two Star System Improvements, requires research in Particle Scanning, and allows further research in Planetary Landscaping.
"Being relatively sedentary and slow-growing, plants are easier to scan and analyze than animals. Systems to tag and scan plant life on a large scale aid immeasurably in efforts to detoxify and colonize new planets and systems."
Note[]
The Harmony do not receive the Infinite Supermarkets Star System Improvement, and this technology requires research in Soil Xenobiology.
Epigenetic Crop Seeding[]
- +2
per on Ocean - +2 per on Jungle
- +2 per on Terran
- +1 per on Desert
- +1 per on Arctic
- +1 per on Arid
- +1 per on Tundra
- -3 on improvement
Cost : 220 
"The ability to adapt plant DNA to its environment, and transfer those learned traits to successive generations, creates a boom in healthy, disease-resistant, long-lived crops."
Infinite Supermarkets[]
- +25 on Star System
- -2 on improvement
Cost : 160
"With vastly improved methods for selecting, growing, and harvesting foods, it is possible to deliver any known dish or ingredient anywhere within a colonized world. Local markets have essentially become infinitely large."