World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Botany / Plant Biology (Biosciences)

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Botany / Plant Biology (Biosciences)
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Why Study Plants? and ... expressed poetically
AGRICOLA Web Access - premier database for plant literature [database is free]
Electronic Sites of Leading Botany, Plant Biology and Science Journals
BIOSCI/bionet - Electronic News

bionet.agroforestry - Agroforestry research. Newsgroup | Archive
bionet.genome.arabidopsis - Into the flowering plant Arabidopsis. Newsgroup | Archive
bionet.chlamydomonas - Research into the green alga Chlamydomonas. Newsgroup | Archive
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Finding Information on the Internet - search engines, reference, document delivery services, tutorial
Links to Selected Scientific Journals
Plant Nomenclature Database
Wormhole to the Rest of the Internet form-based access to many WWW Search Engines
Other subjects in the WWW Virtual Library.
ArchiePlex (archie gateway)

Internet Directory for Botany - searchable alphabetical index | Mirrors: [Croatia | France | Germany: Berlin | Germany: Essen | USA | USA-SightQuest]

Last updated Tuesday, 10-Jul-2018 18:37:06 CDT. Links (658) checked by Cyberspyder Link Check on December 13, 2004

Agriculture, U.S. Department of (USDA)
- Agencies of USDA
- Agricultural Research Service
- Medical Botany, a mini course by James A. Duke
- National Agricultural Library
  - GRIN (Germplasm Resource Information Network) National Plant Germplasm System
  - Plant Genome Data and Information Center - access to major databases
  - AGRICOLA Web Access - premier database for plant literature [database is free]
American Bryological & Lichenological Society (ABLS)
American Fern Society (AFS)
American Phytopathological Society (APS) - APSNet: Plant Pathology On-line
American Society of Plant Biologists - formerly ASPP
American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT)
Annual Reviews Gateway
- Search all Biomedical Annual Reviews articles
University of Arizona
- The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Navigator for the Internet
- Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
Arizona Cactus Company - Arizona Cactus Company's cactus and succulent research
Arizona State University
- The Photosynthesis Center
Stephen F. Austin State University Arthur Temple College of Forestry
Australian Environment Portfolio
- Environment Australia Online
Australian National Botanic Gardens
- Common Birds of the Gardens -- includes calls!
- Botanical Glossaries
- Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS)
University of Basel
- Botanical Image Database - database with several thousand plant images
BeanRef - A collection of external links and references from literature to different aspects of research on beans (Phaseolus and Vigna)
Freie Universität Berlin
- IAPT - International Association for Plant Taxonomy
- International Code of Botanical Nomenclature ratified in Saint Louis, 2000 [the official text is the printed volume]
- International Code of Botanical Nomenclature ratified in Tokyo, 1994
- Regnum Vegetabile
- BioCISE - Resource Development for a Biological Collection Information Service in Europe
- Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
BIOSIS - Biological information service
Universität Bonn, Germany (mostly German)
- Botanisches Institut und Botanischer Garten
  - BIOMAPS project - archive
  - Botanical Garden
  - Botanical Insitute
Botanical Electronic News [WWW version 1995-present] [Gopher-based version - older archives 1993-1997, no longer updated]
Botanical Society of America (BSA)
- American Journal of Botany - full text
- BSA Announcements - jobs, meetings, grant/fellowship opportunities
- Careers in Botany (online version of a BSA brochure)
- Plant Science Bulletin - full-text of BSA newsletter
- BSA Image Database | Original Teaching Image Database - lots of images for educational use
Botany Free Art Prints
Botany Photography
Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum
Brachypodium distachyon Information Resource
British Wildflowers Online
Community of Science Web Server -- for Scientists and Projects
- Funding Opportunities Database - international
- AGRICOLA database - access by subscription
British Society for Plant Pathology
Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
CAB International
California State University
- Steve Wolf:
  - Botany 1050 - Resources include: Twig Key, Genetic Code and "Code Cracker", Geologic Time Scale
  - Botany 3700 - Resources include: Fruit Key, Images
California Institute of Technology
- Meyerowitz's lab - specializes in Arabidopsis flowering
University of California
- UC - Berkeley
  - Museum of Paleontology
    - Introduction to the Plantae - The green kingdom
    - UCMP Paleobotany Type Collection
    - UCMP Microfossil Type Collection
    - Pacific Rim Biodiversity Catalog
    - Phycological Collections - algae
    - Phylogenetic Resources
    - Other Botanical Collections
    - Other Catalogs - Catalogs elsewhere
  - Plant & Microbial Biology
  - University and Jepson Herbaria
  - Green Plant Phylogeny Research Coordination Group
- UC - Davis
  - Chuck Gasser's lab - specializing in ovule developmental mutants
  - UC Davis Herbarium
    - Lasthenia - online newsletter
  - Dendrome, A Genome Database for Forest Trees
- UC - Irvine
  - The Faces of Science: African-Americans in the Sciences
- UC - Riverside
  - Department of Botany and Plant Sciences
  - Department of Plant Pathology
- UC - San Diego
  - Yanofsky lab - MADS box genes and Arabidopsis flower development
- UC - San José
  - Carl W. Sharsmith Herbarium
Canadian Botanical Association/L'Association Botanique du Canada
Carnivorous Plant Database
CMS Molecular Biology Resource - Compendium of resources for molecular biology (et al.)
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Books, Journal TOCs and more)
- Gramene - Rice Genome Databases (joint with Cornell)
Connecticut College Arboretum Collections
University of Connecticut
- The Bartlett Arboretum
- Greenhouses
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Delaware
- College of Agricultural Sciences
  - Botanic Gardens
  - Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
Cornell University
- Gramene - Rice Genome Databases (joint with CSHL)
Technical University of Denmark, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis
- Bioinformatics Links
Duke University
- Chlamydomonas Genetics Center
eFloras Online, including:
- Flora of China
- Flora of North America
  - Flora of Missouri
- Flora of Pakistan
- Moss Flora of China
- Trees and shrubs of the Andes of Ecuador
U. S. Department of Energy
- Primer on Molecular Genetics
EPA: Global Climate Change
European Arabidopsis Stock Culture (NSAC) - plants, ontology database, microarray data
- NASC's Affymetrix Service - transcriptome info
- NASC Ensembl Genome Browser - browse Arabidopsis genome
European Forest Institute
European Molecular Biology Network
- Hungary -- EMBNet Hungary - Agricultural Biotechnology Center
- EMBNet Switzerland - Biocomputing, Biozentrum der Universitaet Basel
  - bionet.software.www Newsgroup
European Plant Index
ExPASy Proteomics Server
- ExPASy Proteomics Tools - lots of protein databases
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
Fairchild Tropical Garden
Finnish Forestry Service
- Silva Fennica (journal)
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago IL USA
- Andean Botanical Information System
Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki
- Botanical Museum
- Internet Directory for Botany - composed of a searchable alphabetical and subject index
Florida Agricultural Information Retreival Service - FAIRS
Flora of North America
Flora of Europe - mega image site
Florida Plants Online - specializes in Florida w/extensive links elsewhere
- Florida Botany
- Young Naturalist Page
University of Florida
- Herbarium (FLAS)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - also available in Français, Arabic and Español (lots of databases!)
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Food
- Poisonous Plant Database (PLANTOX)
Foto Search - botany stock photography, images (pointing at ferns; use the search function to check other plants)
The Garden Gate
GardenWeb - garden and gardening resources
Genomics News Network
- Quick Guide to Sequenced Genomes
  - Arabidopsis thaliana (mouse-eared cress) - completed 2000 - GNN articles:
  - Oryza sativa (rice) - completed
University of Georgia
- Department of Plant Biology
Glossary of over 4400 terms relating to botany and horticulture (restored from http://glossary.gardenweb.com/glossary/)
University of Guelph, Botany Department
University of Hannover, Germany
- Plant Pathology Internet Guide Book
Harvard University
- Ecology & Organismal Biology Resources
- Harvard Museums
University of Hawaii
- Hawaiian Native Plants - endemics
- Hawaiian Silversword Alliance
- UH Campus Plants - over 400 images
- Vascular Plant Families - photographs for over 225 families
- World of Lichenology
- Henriette's Herbal Homepage
Illinois Natural History Survey
- The Tallgrass Prairie in Illinois
University of Illinois
- School of Life Sciences
  - Physiological and Molecular Plant Biology
Imperial College
- NERC Centre for Population Biology
John Innes Institute
- Dean's lab group - specializing in control of flowering time & vernalization research
International Allelopathy Society
International Association of Sexual Plant Reproduction Research (IASPRR)
International Botanical Congress, XVI - archived web site from St. Louis meeting in August 1999
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) - biodiversity data
International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI)
Internet Biodiversity Service
- International Organisation of Palaeobotany
  - Plant Fossil Record Database
  - Fossil Plant Maps
- IBS: Vascular Plant Families and Genera
- European Pollen Database
Internet Directory for Botany - composed of a searchable alphabetical and subject index
Internet Public Library - Plant Biology
JASON Project: Virtual journeys to the rain forest, caverns, Iceland, Mayan ruins, coral reef of Belize and more
Kazusa DNA Research Institute In Japanese in English
- CyanoBase, a database on cyanobacter Synechocystis sp. strain PCC6803
University of Kentucky (UKY)
- TreeGuide: The Natural History of Trees
Kew Royal Botanical Gardens
- RGB Kew Databases - Vascular Plant Families and Genera, Authors of Plant Names, DNA Databases
Kiwi Conservation Club - a Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society project for children
Lakehead University Department of Biology, Plant Cell Biology Lab
Lehle Seeds: normal and mutated Arabidopsis seeds for research.
List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature - EVNT
University of Liverpool
- Ness Botanic Gardens
Lund Unversity, Sweden
- Department of Cell & Organism Biology
Maize Genetics Cooperation Stock Center
University of Manitoba
- Department of Plant Science
  - Fristensky Lab
University of Maryland
- James Reveal's pages:
  - Plant Biology Lecture Notes for Non-majors botany
  - Plant Taxonomy Notes
  - Biomes of North America
  - Advanced Plant Taxonomy Notes
  - Index Nominum Supragenericorum Plantarum Vascularium
  - Vascular Plant Family Nomenclature
  - USDA - APHIS - Concordance of Family Names
  - Darwin-Wallace 1858 Evolution Paper
  - FindIT: Links to WebSites of Botanical Interest (somewhat dated)
- http://www.life.umd.edu/CBMG/faculty/wolniak/wolniakmitosis.html">Mitosis (Steve Wolniak's pages)
University of Massachusetts
- Biological Sciences
  - Plant and Soil Sciences
Master Gardener Information - Texas Agricultural Extension Service
University of Melbourne - Australia
- Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database
- Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
University of Michigan
- University of Michigan Herbarium
Michigan State University
- Rice Genome Annotation site
Missouri Botanical Garden
- Index to Plant Chromosome Numbers (IPCN)
- Photo Essays - see the world through MoBot's eyes
- TROPICOS Database - access to the VAST (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclatural database
Montana Natural Heritage Program (MTNHP)
- Plant Species of Montana
- Plant Species Guidebook
University of Münster (Germany)
Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences (MIPS)
- PEDANT - Protein Extraction, Description and ANalysis Tool - complete genomic analysis of numerous organisms
  - Complete genomes, as of 12/13/04: Eukaryota: 32 Eubacteria: 188 Archaea: 19
  - Inomplete genomes, as of 12/13/04: Eukaryota: 10 Eubacteria: 96 Archaea: 3
- Arabidopsis thaliana var. Columbia - the PEDANT site
Museum of Nova Scotia: Poisonous Plants of Nova Scotia - medicines, toxins and poisons from native plants
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
- Central Botanical Garden of NAS of Belarus in English or in Russian
- Plants of Belarus (biodiversity of wild and cultivated plants) in English or Russian
- Botanical Collections of Belarus in English or Russian
U.S. National Institutes of Health - (NIH)
- National Center for Biotechnology Information - Access to the following molecular databases:
  - BankIt (GenBank Submissions by WWW)
  - BLAST - nucleotide sequence database
  - Entrez - metadatabase access
  - GenBank
  - OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man)
  - ORF Finder
  - PubMed
  - Structure - Molecular Modelling Database (MMDB)
- NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - Paleoclimatology
- Modern and Fossil Pollen Data
- Plant Macrofossil Data
- Tree Ring Data
U.S. National Science Foundation - (NSF)
UK Plant Genetic Resources Group
- Weeds World -- an electronic newletter (ended 1997)
Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility
New Forests Project
Nordic Gene Bank (NGB) - a Plant Genetic Resources (PGR) center and molecular database
Norsk Botanisk Forenings (aka The Norwegian Botanical Association)
- Norsk Botanisk Forenings Home Page
- Blyttia, Norsk Botanisk Forenings Tidsskrift - society journal
Oak Ridge National Laboratories
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review -- an on-line and print journal
- Paleovegetation maps - Global land environments since the last interglacial period
Ohio University
- Dept. of Environmental and Plant Biology
University of Oklahoma
- Department of Botany & Microbiology
- Cal's Plant of the Week
- Oklahoma Biological Survey
  - Catalog of the Woody Plants of Oklahoma: Descriptions and Range Maps
  - Rare and Vulnerable Plant Species of Oklahoma
- Scott's Botanical Links - Index - College, AP biology educational links
Oregon State University
- Fun with Lichens - Database, images and species synoptic key
- Oregon State University Herbarium Home Page
- Trees of the Pacific Northwest
University of Oxford
- Oxford Forestry Institute
  - Prospect: The Wood Database
- Plant Sciences
PlaNet - high level plant genome database for the systematic exploration of Arabidopsis and other plants
Plant Oils WWW Resources - hundreds of links to Internet sites
University of Queensland
- Centre for Biological Information Technology (CBIT)
- Virtual Plants: 3D Measurement and Simulation of Morphogenesis
Rice Genome Research Program
UC Riverside
Rochester Gardening - upstate New York site
Rothamsted Research
- Molecular Biology Notebook
- Plant-Pathogen Interactions
San Diego Fern Society
- Fern Resource Hub
University of Savoie
- Allelopathy
Sierra Club
- Rare Plants of San Diego Co., California
Science Daily plant and animal headlines
National University of Singapore
- Bioinformatics Centre
Smithsonian Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
South Africa National Botanical Institute
- Research - herbaria, ecology, conservation and SABONET project
- Gardens devoted to the flora of southern Africa
  - Plant of the Week
Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
Stanford University
- Stanford Genomic Resources, by topic
- The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR)
- HighWire Press - an online press of scientific journals, principally for non-profit organizations
Swedish Museum of Natural History
- Department of Cryptogamic Botany - incl lichen herbarium
- Department of Phanerogamic Botany - seeds, publications, herbaria, links
- The Linné Herbarium - Herbarium of Linnaeus Online(!)
- Den Virtuella Floran - pictorial flora (in Swedish)
State University of New York Environmental and Forest Biology
TAIR - The Arabidopsis Information Resource - links to everything Arabidopsis superceding all preliminary sites. Contains all data and tools to analyze it ...
- Arabidopsis genome overview
Tasmanian Parks & Wildlife Service
Texas A&M University
- Bioinformatics Working Group
- Plant Taxonomy
- Plant Tissue Culture Information Exchange
University of Toronto
- Botany
Tropical Forests Resource Group - Oxford, UK
Traditional Plants Knowledge, Identifications (ethobotany)
Wake Forest University
- Biochemistry at Wake Forest University
Ultimate Tree-Ring Web Pages
J. Craig Venter Institute
- Plant Gemone sites - castor bean, Medicago truncatula, rice
University of Washington
- Medicinal Herb Garden
National Wildflower Research Center
WDCM: World Data Center on Microorganisms - World Federation of Culture Collections
- Directory, Databases and Dictionaries compiled/indexed by WDCM
The World Lecture Hall -- on-line courses and courseware
Universität Würzburg
- Links for Paleobotanists
Xerox PARC Map Server - generates maps from any location
Yale University
- Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology

Please send inquiries, URLs, corrections to: Scott Russell srussell@ou.edu, University of Oklahoma. Last updated Tuesday, 10-Jul-2018 18:37:06 CDT. 1023879