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Plant Genetics

Agricultural Genome Information Server, USA. Agricultural Genome Information Server sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Agricultural Library. This server lets you browse and search the National Genetic Resources Program genome databases, AGRICOLA, and related biological information. Go to the plant genome databases page.
AAtDB: An Arabidopsis thaliana Database. Arabidopsis thaliana Database (AtDB) project, in the Department of Genetics at the School of Medicine, Stanford University, USA. The goal of the current National Science Foundation-funded project is to develop a prototype of the next generation of Arabidopsis database. Arabidopsis Information Management System (AIMS). Arabidopsis Information Management System (AIMS) is an NSF-funded project directed by Professor Sakti Pramanik of Michigan State University, USA.
The CottonDB Data Collection Site, located at the USDA ARS Southern Crops Research Laboratory, College Station, Texas, USA, serves as a resource on the developing knowledge base of Cotton Genetics.
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative, USA. CGC, established in 1977, provide services for researchers interested in the genetics and breeding of cucurbits.
Dendrome Project, USA. A Genome Database for Forest Trees. The goal of the Dendrome project is to act as a central electronic resource for the study of the molecular genetics of forest trees. The Dendrome project is based at the Institute of Forest Genetics of the Pacific Southwest Research Station of the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture of the Executive Branch of the Government of the United States of America.
European Bioinformatics Institute. The world-wide web (WWW) server of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) which is located at Hinxton Hall near Cambridge in the UK. The EBI is an Outstation of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL, located in Heidelberg, Germany.
ExPASy Molecular Biology Server, Switzerland.. Molecular biology server of the Geneva University Hospital and the University of Geneva. This server is dedicated to the analysis of protein and nucleic acid sequences as well as 2-D PAGE.
GrainGenes, USA. GrainGenes is a compilation of molecular and phenotypic information on wheat, barley, oats, rye, and sugarcane. The project is supported by the USDA/NAL Plant Genome Research Program and by the community of scientists who are providing the information and reasons to be interested in it.
Harvard Biological Laboratories Genome Research, USA.
Index Seminum Austriae. This compilation of the Index Seminum Austriae is a common project of the five public institutions in charge of maintenance of Plant Genetic Resources in Austria.
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), Rome, Italy. IPGRI was founded in 1974 and its focus is conserving genepools of current and potential crops and forages.
John Hopkins University Bioinformatics Home Page, USA.
LEHLE Seeds Home Page. "Home Page for Everything Arabidopsis".
The Maize Genetics Cooperation - Stock Center is part of the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) and is supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA/ARS).The facilities are provided by the Department of Crop Sciences of the College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign, USA
Maize Genome Database Project. The Maize Genome Database or MaizeDB is currated as a relational Sybase database, by the USDA Plant Genetics Unit located with the College of Agriculture of the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, and provides user-friendly, Internet access to the maize genome as the the basis for the biology of maize. Curated by Dr. Mary Polacco (pmary@teosinte.agron.missouri.edu).
MendelWeb, from Providence, Rhode Island, USA. MendelWeb is an educational resource for teachers and students interested in the origins of classical genetics, introductory data analysis, elementary plant science, and the history and literature of science.
National Center for Biotechnology Information. The NCBI is responsible for building, maintaining, and distributing GenBank, the NIH genetic sequence database that collects all known DNA sequences from scientists worldwide. The NCBI is a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and is located on the campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. - The NCBI WWW Entrez Browser. WWW Entrez now has the MMDB database of 3-D Protein Structures. - Entrez Taxonomy Browser
The National Center for Genome Resources, USA. The National Center for Genome Resources is a not-for-profit organization created to design, develop, support, and deliver resources in support of public and private genome research.
The National Institute of Health - GenoBase Database Gateway, USA.
Network Browser for Databanks in Molecular Biology, UK.
NGRP/GRIN Introduction Page, National Genetic Resources Program, USA. The Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) web server provides germplasm information about plants, animals, microbes and insects within the National Genetic Resources Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS).
Nordic Gene Bank, a centre for the conservation and utilization of plant genetic resources. NGB is an institution which reports to the Nordic Council of Ministers, an executive assembly to promote cooperation between the Nordic countries; Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
Nottingham Arabidopsis Stock Centre (NASC), UK. From here, you can browse the seed list, order seed stocks, ask questions, register with the Stock Centre, and access other Arabidopsis information servers.
Plant Gene Register, edited by Paul Staswick, University of Nebraska--Lincoln, USA.
The Plant Genome Data and Info Ctr, USDA/ARS/National Agr. Lib. (Gopher), USA.
Poplar Molecular Network Gopher, Washington, USA. The PMN was established to promote the flow of information, materials and people in the poplar research community, and to promote the use of the molecular approach to poplar research.
Rice Genome Research Program (RGP) at STAFF Institute in Tsukuba, Japan.
SRS Sequence Retrieval System, UK. The SRS Browser for Databanks in Molecular Biology was created by Thure Etzold at EMBL in Heidelberg. SRS indexes a wide range of molecular biology databases at many sites around the world. SRS is particularly good at cross-referencing databases, including the literature abstracts in MedLine.
UK Plant Genetic Resources Group, Nottingham. The group represents curators of plant genetic resource centres throughout the UK. This server aims to provide an overview of plant genetic resource collections in the UK together with more detailed information on the activities and holdings of individual sites.
Uppsala Genetic Center, Sweden, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, consists of six departments - the Department of Cell Research, the Department of Forest Genetics, the Department of Genetics, the Department of Microbiology, the Department of Molecular Genetics and the Department of Plant Breeding.
W.M. Keck Genter for Genome Informatics, Institute of Biosciences and Technology (IBT), Texas A and M University (TAMU), Houston, USA.

Seeds

The Kew Seed Bank at Wakehurst Place, from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK.
Seeds of Life by Françoise Brenckmann. Tens of pictures revealing the tiny and wonderful world of seeds. The text is telling you about their secret life and their unexpected use. Bilingual: French/English.

Standards

Australian Herbarium Specimen Data Standards from Cornell, USA.
A Common Datastructure for European Floristic Databases (CDEFD) by W. Berendsohn et al.; from Berlin, Germany.
A Comprehensive Information Model for Botanical Databases, from Berlin, Germany.
Draft information Model for Biological Collections, Association of Systematics Collections, from Cornell, USA.
Guidelines for the Care of Natural History Collections by Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, USA.
HISPID, Herbarium Information Standards and Protocols for Interchange of Data, ERIN, Australia.
International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Switzerland.
Standards and Core Attributes for Biological Data, ERIN, Australia.
Systematics Agenda 2000, Cornell, USA.
A Taxonomic Information Model for Botanical Databases. This document has been compiled by W. Berendsohn, Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, GErmany, for the IOPI Information System Committee.
TDWG, Taxonomic Databases Working Group, Australian National University (ANU).

Other

Arboretum-Projekti (Arboretum Project). Information on the Finnish trees, compiled by the students of the Department of Forest Ecology, University of Helsinki, Finland (in Finnish).
Arboriculture Trees & Timber /Home page by Doug Mellor, Kernville, California, USA.
Background to Finnish Forestry. Due to the public's increasing environmental awareness, the way that forests are treated has become a subject of general interest. A concise (yet wide-ranging) and illustrative source of information on Finnish forestry has been lacking. The purpose of Background to Finnish Forestry is to provide answers to the fundamental questions arising from the subject, both at home and abroad. - From ther server of the Finnish Forest Research Institute, METLA (in Finnish, German and English).
Botany 3120 Home Page. The vascular plant morphology home page maintained by Steven Wolf, California University - Stanislaus, USA.
Canadian Geographical Names - Natural Resources Canada. An interactive and authoritative source of over 500,000 geographical names in Canada, maintained by the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (CPCGN). By combining this server and the Canadian Geographical Names Data Base (CGNDB), a simple reference service is provided, including basic locational information and maps that are easy to download.
Carnivorous Plants Page by Barry-Meyers-Rice, Arizona, USA.
Dictionary of Botanical Epithets, Chuck Griffith, USA.
Diversification of Gulf/Caribbean Mangrove Communities through Cenozoic Time. An article by Alan Graham, Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University , Ohio, USA.
Fire Effects Information System, FEIS. FEIS provides up-to-date information on fire effects on plants and animals. It was developed at the USDA Forest Service Intermountain Research Station's Fire Sciences Laboratory (IFSL) in Missoula, Montana, USA. This national interagency implementation is sponsored by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group and the USDA Forest Service. The FEIS Information Center is maintained by the Intermountain Region computer staff.
The Great Mexican Chile, Capsicum species as spices.
Environmental Surveillance from Satellites by NORUT Information Technology, Tromsø, Norway. Satellite images and information of the vegetation changes due to air pollution in the northernmost Norway, N Finland and the Kola Peninsula.
European Tropical Forest Research Network, ETFRN, from Germany.
Florida Biotic Information Consortium, USA. The Consortium is a group of scientists and librarians who are committed to identifying and making available to researchers information that deals with Florida's biota.
The IV Conference on Plant Taxonomy / IV Jornades de Taxonomia Botànica will take place in Barcelona, Spain, from 19-22 September 1996. This is the first circular of a congress with 5 main items: 1) Taxonomic studies on the Flora of the Catalan Countries 2) Taxonomic studies on the Flora of the Iberian Peninsula and of Macaronesia 3) Taxonomic studies on the Flora of Northern Africa 4) Contributions of Cytogenetics to Plant Systematics 5) Current molecular methods in Plant Systematics.
The Great Mexican Chile, Capsicum species as spices.
The Green Plant Phylogeny Research Coordination Group, Berkeley, California, USA.
Groene Vingers - The Green Thumb. The Flemish cybergarden with flowers plants, gradening tips and a garden calendar; in co-operation with KTLMA, the Royal Horticultural Society of Antverp, Belgium.
Habitat Ecology Home Page, Bedford Institue of Oceanography, Canada.
Herbs to Orchids - Botanical Illustration in the Nineteenth Century. Exhibition by the Watkinson Library at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut; USA.
Mary's Gardens HomePage. Mary's Gardens was founded in 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, to research the hundreds of flowers named in medieval times as symbols of the life, mysteries and privileges of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus - as recorded by botanists, folklorists and lexicographers; and to assist in the planting of "Mary Gardens" of "Flowers of Our Lady" today.
Mattiske Consulting Pty Ltd. Mattiske Consulting is a team of botanists and environmental scientists working in Australia and South East Asia. Their primary interests are in flora surveys, vegetation mapping, computer graphics, succession studies, environmental auditing (with an emphasis on flora and vegetation), environmental assessments, rehabilitation planning and monitoring, natural resource management, rare flora studies and geobotany.
Michael Oxman, Professional Tree Surgeon. Arboriculture, urban forestry, tree care, landscape technology; home page for the arborist needing their tree fix for the day.
Museum Informatics Project (MIP), University of California, Berkeley, USA. The Museum Informatics Project (MIP), a department of Information Systems and Technology, is a collaborative effort at the University of California, Berkeley, to coordinate the application of information technology in museums and other organized, non-book collections. The University of California, Berkeley, holds approximately 80 collections covering a wide variety of disciplines and media.
Open University Ecology and Conservation Research Group (ECRG), UK. Information on long-term grassland experiments, population dynamics of rare or invasive plants and their herbivores, metapopulation dynamics of Primula vulgaris, Comparative Plant Demographic Research (COMPADRE), and the use of barley straw to control nuisance algae, and Journal of Ecology.
Peterson's Education Center: Botany and Plant Sciences. Peterson's Education Center brings together, at one central address, consistently organized information about educational opportunities at all levels, and gives individuals the ability to search Peterson's databases as well as to request more information, apply, and interact in other ways with faculty and administrators at educational institutions. Every private school, camp, college, and university has its own Site in The Center, which permits each to develop a full array of information and communication tools.
Photobiology Online from the University of Kansas Medical Center (Kansas City, USA) and the Central Research Institute for Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Plant Hormones, UK.
Plant Physiology/Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Program at the University of Kentucky, USA.
Plant Tissue Culture Information Exchange. The Exchange was started because researchers, teachers and producers world wide need rapid access to information about plant tissue culture.This service was created and is maintained by Dan Lineberger , Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University:
Science Global Career Network. Biological Sciences Job Announcements from the Journal Science.
Science and Plants for Schools, Nottingham, UK. This is part of an educational network of Web and Gopher servers called PHYTOS.
The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC)
The Tele-Garden, USA. This tele-robotic installation allows WWW users to view and interact with a remote garden filled with living plants. Members can plant, water, and monitor the progress of seedlings via the tender movements of an industrial robot arm.
TreeBase Home Page, USA. TreeBASE is a pilot project sponsored by NSF, Harvard University Herbaria, and University of California, Davis to establish a relational database of phylogenetic information. This web page demonstrates some of TreeBASE's capabilities.
UK Systematics Forum. The UK Systematics Forum aims to improve coordination and communication between the major UK collection-based institutions as well as the wider UK systematic community. These include national and regional museums, university museums and research institutes as well as the systematic experts who rely on these collections at both the professional and amateur level.
US Geological Survey Mapping Information: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), USA.
Virtual Cell. A collection of still images, texts, movies and sounds covering the structure and functioning of a typical plant cell; being developed by Matej Lexa, USA.
Water Plants in aquariums, the Krib, USA.

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