Plant Biology
Link to top Life Sciences or DBBS Resources page- Tools for Plant Biology Research (ppt)
- Poster for Plant Biology Retreat, Oct. 5, 2002.
- Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC)
- Angiosperm Phylogeny Website
- Descriptive characterization of all angiosperm families, includes images, phylogenetic trees, bibliography, description of characters used complete family and order synonymies, search form, etc. Author: Peter Stevens. Web Design and Maintenance: Hilary Davis. Hosted by Missouri Botanical Garden.
- TAB: the Arabidopsis Book
- eds. C.R. Somerville and E.M. Meyerowitz; freely available online text from American Society for Plant Biologists.
- Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture
- from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
- BoDD: the Botanical Dermatology Database
- Updated version of Botanical Dermatology: Plants and Plant Products Injurious to the Skin, by John Mitchell and Arthur Rook, originally published in 1979.
- Botanical Society of America Online Image Collection
- A large teaching collection of slides arranged by topic and searchable, with thumbnails for browsing and medium or high resolution images available.
- Botany / Plant Biology
- WWW Virtual Library site
- Botany; Putting names and faces to botany information
- Annotated list of botany internet sites, compiled by Lori Bronars and Anne Prestamo; from College & Research Library News, v. 61, no.6, June, 2000.
- botany.com
- An online encyclopedia of plants and gardening.
- Botany online - the Internet Hypertextbook
- Based on the textbook Botanik by Peter von Sengbusch (McGraw Hill Book Company, 1989).
- Botany 301: Taxonomy of Flowering Plants
- Course site by Dr. Hugh Wilson of Texas A&M University.
- Botany Sites at Mad Scientist Network
- Crop Index
- from Purdue University, Center for New Crops and Plant Products; arranged alphabetically by crop genus and common name, with information and other links included.
- Families of Flowering Plants
- Taxonomic info on all the Angiosperm families by L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz.
- FindIT: Systematic Botany Resources for Reference Librarians
- from Norton-Brown Herbarium, University of Maryland.
- Field Techniques used by the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Flora of China
- from the Harvard University Herbaria
- Flora of North America
- Includes status reports, online volumes of this "comprehensive set of taxonomic treatments for all North American plant species and infraspecific taxa" and a keyword search engine that accesses the FNA document database, other online flora projects, botanical databases, and botanical libraries, etc.
- Flowering Plant Gateway
- from Texas A&M University Bioinformatics Working Group has Currently-listed classification systems include Cronquist, Takhtajan, and Thorne.
- HerbMed
- Searchable database of information on herbal medicine from the Alternative Medicine Foundation, Inc.; included links to PubMed references.
- Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum)
- a collaborative project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) and the Smithsonian Institution
- Index to American Botanical Literature
- Late 1995+; from the New York Botanical Garden; entries deal with various aspects of extant and fossil American plants and fungi, including systematics (traditional and molecular), floristics, morphology, and ecology, as well as economic botany and general botany. More info
- Intellectual Property Rights and Plant Biotechnology
- Full text of 1997 book from National Research Council.
- International Plant Names Index
- Searchable database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. IPNI is the product of a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium.
- Introduction to the "Green Algae"
- Maintained by the University of California's Museum of Paleontology
- Kew Library
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library, including their Catalogue.
- Medicinal Herb Garden, University of Washington
- Searchable by botanical and common name; many entries include pictures.
- Missouri Botanical Garden Research
- Several databases
- Missouriplants.com
- Photographs and descriptions of the flowering and non-flowering plants of Missouri.
- Mycological Resources on the Internet
- World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Mycology
- National Plant Genome Initiative: Objectives for 2003-2008
- 2002 book published by the National Academy Press.
- National Plant Germplasm System (NPFGS)
- Includes Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) Taxonomy
- Plant Cell Biology on DVD - Sample Screens
- Plant Information Online
- Where to purchase plants and seeds, with shipping sources; Contact information to North American retail and wholesale seed and nursery firms; citations for more than 350,000 images of wild and cultivated plants from around the world in botanical and horticultural books and magazines from 1982 to the present; links to expert-selected sites on growing plants in all regions of Canada and the U.S.
- Plant Systematics Collection
- Also known as BotIT; from Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Botany Dept.; includes a lot of nice images.
- Plants Database (USDA)
- Provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories; the searchable image gallery includes more than 30,000 images.
- Plants in Motion
- Time-lapse movies [QuickTime] from Roger Handgarter, Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Indiania.
- Poison Plants
- Scientific American Explore! page; "Genetically modified crops, grown over much of the U.S., remain controversial"
- Poison Plants Informational Database
- from Cornell University
- Pronunciation of Vascular Plant Genera & Families of New England
- compiled by Ray Angelo, Curator of Vascular Plants, New England Botanical Club.
- Realizing the Potential of Plant Genomics: From Model Systems To The Understanding Of Diversity
- April, 1999, document from the National Science Foundation. Includes several nice Arabidopsis images.
- Smithsonian Catalogue of Botanical Illustrations
- Initially includes 500 botanical illustrations from three plant families: Bromeliaceae, Cactaceae, and Melastomataceae. More illustrations will be added to the database in the future.
- Threatened Plants of the World
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre site, which includes data from the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants.
- Topical Reviews in Plant Physiology
- A list of several recent references compiled atAmerican Society of Plant Physiologists "for lecturers and students of plant physiology." Use the FIND or SEARCH key on your browser to search this bibliography by keyword.
- Traditional Herbal & Plant Knowledge, Identifications (ethnobotany)
- Transgenic Crops: an Introduction and Resource Guide
- not maintained after 2004.
- Vascular Plant Image Gallery
- from Texas A&M University's Bioinformatics Working Group.
- Vascular Plant Types Catalog
- Database from the New York Botanical Garden; includes a growing collection of images from the plant type collection also.
- Virtual Cell, a 3D voyage into a plant cell