PLANT SCIENCE Literature, Databases and Learning

 

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ONLINE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE RESOURCES

Agricola – A search engine via the USDA National Agriculture Library

AGRIS/CARIS – Agriculture Publications Database (at the FAO)

Google Scholar – A search engine limited to academic and scientific text.

PubMed -- A leading biological and medical publications database

Scirus – Search engine for scientific links and documents

The Worlds Electronic Journals -- List

 

GENERAL AGRICULTURAL, PLANT SCIENCE AND BOTANY LINKS

Agriculture online -- Where farmers and professionals meet

Atlas of Plant Anatomy – by Paul Schulte, Univ. of Nevada

Australian Plant Phenomics Facility – Advanced plant research facility in Australia

Back to Basics – A premier soil fertility information resource

Botanical Dermatology Database -- A family-by-family description of plants and the key chemicals that they produce

Botany.com-- Mainly for the gardener, with ample botanical data.

EcoCrop – A system (at FAO) to identify a suitable crop for a specified environment.

Ecotox – A database that includes effects of toxic substances on plants (from EPA)

FAOSTAT -- Statistical database on global food and agriculture at the FAO

Glossaries and Dictionaries on Line  -- For plant science, botany and biotechnology

GrainGenes -- The small grains database

Horticulture Database – From the Royal Horticultural Society UK

Kimball Plant Biology links – Links on Prof. Kimball’ biology pages.

Mycorrhiza – Main information exchange for this important symbiosis.

National Biological Information Infrastructure/Botany – A useful portal for plant and crop science

Global Plant Breeding – A US website for plant breeders

Plant Ontology -- Controlled vocabularies (ontologies) that describe plant structures and growth/developmental stages.

Photographic Atlas of Plant Anatomy -- Covering an impressive range of 53 topics in plant anatomy

Plant Management Network – Will answer your questions – by subscription (U.S. based)

Plant Pathology online – The American Phytopathological Society

PlantFacts – a database to search for plant information from many Universities in the USA

Plants Database – Enter a plant name and receive a volume of information, from the USDA

Plants-In-Motion – You read the book – now see the movie.

Science and plants – Pre-college level educational materials on plants

US National Agricultural Library  -- More than just a library

Vegetation Distribution maps

World Water Links – Plants need water

 

Plant Taxonomy and related resources

Flowering Plant Gateway – Four systems of flowering plant classification

GrainTax -- Taxonomy of wheat and associated species (including a historical perspective).

GRIN Taxonomy – A taxonomy module of the GRIN database.

Harvard University Herbarium

Multilingual Plant Names  – Plant names in various languages

The Families of Flowering Plants – by L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz

 

Metabolism and Biochemistry

Biochemical and Metabolical Pathways – A searchable index, and more.

Metabolic and Regulatory Pathways, (KEGG)

MetaCyc -- Database of nonredundant, experimentally elucidated metabolic pathways from more than 300 different organisms

Molecular Structures Made Visible – Visualization of metabolic pathways and molecular structure

 

LEARNING AND TUTORIALS

 

Biotechnology/Genetics/Plant Breeding (see also Biotech Issues on the left panel)

Breeding Rice for Drought Prone Environments – A breeder's manual (.pdf file)

Heredity and DNA -- A multimedia tutorial.

Introduction to Genetic Analysis – Textbook online

Mandy and Fanny: The Future of Sustainable Agriculture -- Educational video about GM crops

Mendelian Genetics – A free distance learning by Dr Jamie Love

Plant Breeding – Participatory – What is participatory plant breeding?

Plant Breeding Updates – Site dealing with plant breeding, including a dictionary of terms and more.

Plant Breeding.org – US National Association of Plant Breeders

Plants in Action -- Free on-line plant biology textbook by Australian and NZ plant scientists

Plant breeding topics on this web site

 
Plant (and stress) Physiology (Beyond browsing this web site)

Abscisicacid.com-- on Abscisic Acid the "stress hormone"

Chlorophyll Fluorescence – by Yvan Fracheboud, ETH Switzerland

Chlorophyll fluorescence, a practical guide

On proline and amino acids in stress -- From Purdue University

Photosynthesis on the Web - A well received portal by Larry Orr and Govindjee

Photosynthesis – Online course

Plant hormones

Plant Physiology on-line -- Summarized tutorials and links to special essays; By Lincoln Taiz and Eduardo Zeiger

The Online Biology Book -- Extensive tutorials

The Virtual Cell

 

METHODS AND PROTOCOLS ONLINE

   (For selected plant stress protocols see ‘Methods’ on left panel)

Applied genetic molecular lab protocols – by CIMMYT (large .pdf file)

BioCompare – Plant biology protocols

BIOSCI/BIONET Newsgroup Network -- Ask for help

Cell Biology Laboratory Manual

Fast Plants – an introduction to growing and experimenting with Arabidopsis thaliana plants.

How to measure almost anything – Sensors and measurement systems for plants, soil and environment

MaxChelator -- Buffer and chelate software

Methods in Plant Histology – The classical book (online), still useful.

Microscopy -- Virtual library of microscopy

Molecular Biology Techniques -- A hot list of molecular biology techniques on the web

Molecular Station -- Molecular biology protocols and more

‘Plant Methods’ – The online journal

Plant Tissue Culture Information

PrometheusWiki – a new web resource for methods and protocols in plant physiology & ecology.

Protocols For Recombinant DNA Isolation, Cloning, And Sequencing – A complete hypertext manual

Protocols online – General biology lab reference book

Soil and Plant Analysis Lab Manual – The basics, by John Ryan and George Estefan, ICARDA

Sowacs.com – Extensive resource for soil moisture measurement methods

Springer Protocols  -- Compilation of published plant science protocols in Springer books

 

BIOLOGY AND AGRICULTURE SOFTWARE

Agriculture software directory

Plant breeding software.

Plant Breeding software – From Wageningen University

Hands on Genetics -- Instructional software for basic genetics.

IRRISTAT – Statistics package downloadable from IRRI

Molecular biology software

SAS User Guide – Online manual for the SAS statistical analysis package.

SimGene.com - A Portal to Free Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics Tools.

 

VARIOUS TOOLS

CAS – American Chemical Society information resource

Encyclopedia.com  and  Wikipedia

LocClim - Local Monthly Climate Estimator by global coordinates.

Periodic table of elements -- Dynamic

Science Acronym Finder

Science Constants and Equations

Sunrise and Sunset calculator

World Climate- Essential climatic data by city/town (worldwide)

WorldTime – Time zones by city, meeting planner and more

Dictionaries and translation:

All the Dictionaries that you Might Need

Yahoo Babelfish translator – Online translations

Google translator – Online translations

Glossaries and Dictionaries on Line -- For Plant science, botany and biotechnology

One-Look Dictionary

Unit conversion:

All Unit Megaconverter

International System of Units – (SI)

The “Dutch” unit converter

 

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