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."