Web Resources : Plant Sciences
Dictionaries
Biotech's Life science dictionary
This free resource was developed by our staff
members and contributors dealing mainly with biochemistry,
biotechnology, botany, cell biology and genetics. This dictionary
is searchable with hypertext links to explanations of terminology
used in the descriptions. This is a BioTech Resources Web Project
at University of Texas at Austin.
Bryological
Glossary by the Missouri Botanical Garden. A multilingual glossary
for bryology, originally published in Monographs in Systematic
Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden Vol. 33, 297 pp. 1990.
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Mycology
and Fungi
MykoWeb : mushrooms, fungi,
mycology. This is initiated by Michael Wood, a past president
of the Mycological Society of San Francisco. It is a site devoted
to the science of mycology (fungi).
Systematic
Botany and Mycology : Fungal Database developed at the U.S.
National Fungus Collections provide access to information about
fungi, primarily those associated with plants or otherwise of agricultural
importance. These databases are maintained and expanded by members
of the Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory (SBML), U.S. Department
of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. Databases included
are :
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Orchids
Internet Orchid
Photo Encyclopedia
A reference library of orchid species photographs by Jay Pfahl..
This is a labour of love for Jay and shows the extent that some
orchid growers will go to so that their accumulated knowledge can
be shared around the world. In turn photographers around the world
have made photos available to him.
The Orchid
Mall©
This site gives a list of links to various information and commercial
sources about orchids. By Carson E. Whitlow
Papua New
Guinea Orchid News
This Web site presents details of all known genera from Papua New
Guinea (the eastern part of the Island of New Guinea). Shown are
representative examples of species in all genera and some sections
if possible. Additionally provided are line drawings and photos.
Our photo library is extensive and constantly being added to.
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Online
Books
Rare
Books from MBG Library
The Missouri Botanical Garden Library has
digitized and preserved beautifully illustrated and botanically
significant books in their private holdings and is made available
to an international audience. Called the Rare Book Digitization
Project is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This project
will result in a large database of botanical and gardening illustrations
and text available to scholars, gardeners, and book enthusiasts
through this web site
Botany
online - The Internet Hypertextbook
This site was originally written in German
has English translation now. Contents include plant anatomy,
classic genetics, organic chemistry and plant biochemistry, intercellular
communication, interactions between plants, fungi, bacteria, and
viruses, evolution, and a part of ecology. Accompanying these
texts are many images and movies: micrographs of cells, interactive
molecular models, even animations modeling how cells form patterns.
It has also links to outside links. Hosted
at the University of Hamburg.
The Molecular
Biology of Plant Cells by H. Smith, editor
The book is intended as a text-book for senior undergraduate and
post-graduate students in biology, biochemistry, botany, molecular
biology and agricultural science. Published by eScholarship, the
California Digital Library
The writing
of Charles Darwin on the web
A rich online source of works by Charles Darwin. Full text online
with bibliographies as well as a brief biography of Darwin. By John
van Wyhe, hosted at British Library.
Movies
Plants-In-Motion
This is created for nonprofit educational
use by Roger P. Hangarter, Indiana University, Department of Biology.
Using time-lapse photography , it screens the movements of plants
and clearly demonstrates that plants are living and capable of some
extraordinary things such as Roots snake through the soil, flowers
furl and unfurl, bean plants deploy their leaves in the morning
and tuck them away at night
Plants
in Singapore
A
Guide To Common Vegetables
This guide features a wide range of vegetables available in the
Singapore local wet markets and gives a description accompanied
by illustrations and photographs of each vegetable. It gives
the local, genus, species, variety and family names. By the Singapore
Science Centre.
Freshwater
Macrophytes
This site records and archives pictures aquatic or semi-aquatic
plants found in Singapore and West Malaysian wilderness and farms
as well as in artificial tank/pond conditions; emerged, submerged
or marginal.
habitatnews
: Natural history news for the busy Singaporean
- highlighting talks, books, events and issues, in biology, ecology,
taxonomy, natural history and environmentalism.
Molluscan
Pictures
This is about Southeast Asian seashells, snails or molluscs
maintain by CHAN Sow-Yan. Registration (free) is required to use
this site.
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Parasitic
plants
The
Parasitic plant connection. This site is for graduate
research in parasitic plants which is covered in great detail.
It includes distribution maps, species and DNA information, descriptions
of each family, colour photographs and bibliographies. Maintained
by Daniel Nickrent, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Plant
genomes
Arabidopsis Information Resource
Arabidopsis thaliana is a small flowering plant that is widely used
as a model organism in plant biology. This site archived 117 million
bases sequenced by a collaboration of labs around the world.
This database is searchable by genetic markers, clones, etc.
It also has links to analyze proteins as well as rules for naming
a gene.
Transgenic
Crops : an introduction and resource guide
This web site provides information and links to resources on the
technology and issues on transgenic crops (also known as genetically
modified or GM crops). It is by authors who are engaged in plant
genetics research and
teaching at Colorado State University.
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Plant
Pathology
The Plant Pathology
Internet Guide Book
This is a subject oriented internet resource guide for plant pathology,
applied entomology, and all related fields. Maintained by
Thorsten Kraska, Institute for Plant Diseases, University
of Bonn, Germany.
Pest
Management
Biocontrol Network
This site is for those interested in Integrated Pest Management
Solution for pest control using alternatives to "conventional" chemical
pesticides and fertilizers for agriculture, horticulture, commercial
and residential use. It also has preventative management resources
such as bio-intensive pest control, organic farm and garden products,
and educational materials.
Compendium
of IPM Definitions (CID)
A Collection of Integrated pest management definitions and their
citations in Pest Management Literature. Maintained by Waheed
Ibrahim Bajwa and Marcos Kogan, Integrated Plant Protection Center.
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Bibliography/Internet
Databases
AGRIS/CARIS
AGRIS is the international information system for the agricultural
sciences and technology. The system identifies worldwide literature
(both conventional and non-conventional; the so-called "grey"
literature), dealing with all aspects of agriculture.
CARIS is the Current Agricultural Research Information System, which
identifies projects dealing with information on agriculture. Both
are indexing database produced by Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations.
The Andean
Botanical Information System (ABIS)
This site provide information from the floristic and systematic
investigations of the phanerogams (flowering plants) of Andean South
America. It presents research on selected geographic regions or
groups of Andean plants, including the flora of coastal Peru and
Chile, floristic inventories of montane forests of northern Peru,
and monographic treatments with online images.
The International
Plant Names Index (IPNI)
This is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical
details of all seed plants. Its goal is to eliminate the need for
repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information
about plant names. The data are freely available and are gradually
being standardized and checked. IPNI will be a dynamic resource,
depending on direct contributions by all members of the botanical
community.
Searchable
Databases of the New York Botanical Garden.
It includes the CATALPA (CATAlog for
Library Public Access); Herbarium Specimen Catalog; Index Herbariorum;
Index to American Botanical Literature; North American Bryophyte
Herbaria and the NYBG Living Collections.
Vascular
Plant Type Catalog
A catalogue of approximately 89,202 vascular plant type specimens
accompanied with digital images. This database also has basic
information from all types in these families. There is an
alphabetical list of available families listing the taxa for that
family. By The New York Botanical Garden.
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Plants
For a Future Database
This searchable database of useful plants covers 7000 species
worldwide. Information includes plant physical characteristics,
cultivation, propagation and its uses.
TreeBase
: a database of phylogenetic knowledge.
This is a relational database of phylogenetic information and stores
phylogenetic trees data from published research papers. Hosted
by University of Buffalo
USDA
Plants National Database.
PLANTS was created to replace the National List of Scientific Names
published by the National Resources Conservation Service.
It provides a single source of general information about the plant
kingdom to researchers and other people interested in plants.
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