INTERNET DIRECTORY FOR BOTANY: ECONOMIC BOTANY, ETHNOBOTANY

Original location of this page: http://www.helsinki.fi/kmus/botecon.html

Information on useful plants (food, medicine, material for textiles, etc.) and harmful plants (plant pathology, poisonous plants, weeds). Not many horticultural links (there are some in a separate file Gardening. Only a only few links on forestry and agriculture (there are comprehensive lists on these topics - some of them are listed under "link collections, resource guides".

Crops - Ethnobotany- Herbal Medicine - Plant Pathology - Poisons - Weeds

Crops

• The Advanced Molecular Initiative in Community Agriculture (AMICA), Germany
• AgDB: Agriculture-related Databases, of AgNIC (AGriculture Network Information Center). Directory that describes and links to primary (non-bibliographic) agriculture-related databases. It has both search and browse capabilities.
• AgNIC (Agricultural Network Information Center) Home Page, USA. AgNIC is a distributed network that provides access to agriculture-related information, subject area experts, and other resources in a manner in which the physical location of the resources is transparent to users.
• AGNIS (Agricultural And Natural Resources Information Systems) Home Page, USA. Maintained in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
• The AGRALIN World Wide Web server is a project of the Wageningen Agricultural University Library/Pudoc-DLO, the Netherlands.
• AgResearch WWW Server - New Zealand Pastoral Agriculture Research Institute Limited.
• Agricultural Perspectives by Stephen Dwyer. This site attempts to outline some of the varied and numerous developments in agriculture found on the web and elsewhere.
• The Asian Vegetable Research & Development Center, Taiwan
• ATCROS - Australasian Tree Crops Source Book
• The Australian New Crops Home Page from University of Queensland, Australia. The mission of this service is to disseminate information and to improve the communications network among new crops workers in Australia.
• Belgian and European herb legislation. Belgian royal decree on herbs (RD: 29/8/1997), lists of the safe and dangerous herbs and mushrooms; information on herbs, organic food, european legislation on herbs and nutrients and Naredi, the Belgian health product association.
• Biological Control Home Page, Cornell University, USA
• Botanical Forest Products in British Columbia, Canada - An Overview
• Center for Soybean Tissue Culture and Genetic Engineering, USA.
• CGIAR Home Page, Washington, DC, USA. CGIAR is an acronym for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.
• CGIAR's System-Wide Information Network for Genetic Resources - SINGER, Washington, DC, USA
• The Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, USA)
• CIMMYT, Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo is an internationally funded, nonprofit scientific research and training organization. Headquartered in Mexico, the Center is engaged in a worldwide research program for sustainable maize and wheat systems, with emphasis on helping the poor while protecting natural resources in developing countries.
• Cocoa Research WWW Home Page, USA. The Cocoa Information System is sponsored by The American Cocoa Research Institute in collaboration with The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center
• Cornell University, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, USA
• The Corn Growers Guidebook. Compiled by Bob Nielsen, Purdue University in W. Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
• Cotton Database Data Collection Site, located at the USDA ARS Southern Crops Research Laboratory, College Station, Texas, USA.
• Crop Protection - Botany, Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• Crop Protection Program of the Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Center, Canada
• CropSearch Database and CropReferences, Indiana Center for New Crops and Plant Products, New Crop Resource Online Program, USA
• The Cucurbit Network, USA. In 1994, The Cucurbit Network was created and is currently managed by cucurbit scientists, Deena Decker-Walters, Thomas Andres, and Terrence Walters. Their goals are to disseminate news of recent developments concerning cucurbits and to promote the conservation and understanding of this plant family through education and research. The network provides information and news on the cucumber, gourd, melon, pumpkin, squash family (Cucurbitaceae).
• DAINet Deutsches Agrarinformationsnetz - German Agricultural Information Network, Germany
• DLO-NL Agricultural Research Department, the Netherlands. DLO-NL is the Netherlands organization for agricultural research. It works towards a competitive and sustainable agriculture, horticulture, forestry and fisheries and an optimal development of rural areas.
• EnviroPlants Research. Technical and economical efficiencies of producing, marketing, and managing environmental plants; a comprehensive collection of publications related to economic and horticultural developments occurring in the nursery and greenhouse industries. EnviroPlants Research is brought to you through the Research segment of HORTICULTURE in Virtual Perspective. It is maintained by Dr. Tim Rhodus at The Ohio State University in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science.
• Evolution of Crop Plants. Lecture notes by Paul Gepts, University of California at Davis, USA.
• Famine Foods (Robert Freedman, USA). The Famine Foods DataBase: plants that are not normally considered as crops are consumed in times of famine. This botanical-humanistic subject has had little academic exposure, and provides insight to potential new food sources that ordinarily would not be considered.
• Forage Information System. Forage Information System provides links to worldwide forage-related information. Coordination of this effort is being provided at Oregon State University, USA.
• GrainGenes, USA. GrainGenes is a compilation of molecular and phenotypic information on wheat, barley, oats, rye, and sugarcane.
• GUMCAS: A model describing the growth of cassava (Manihot esculenta) by by R.B. Matthews and L.A. Hunt, Department of Crop Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
• Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung - Genbank, Gatersleben, Germany (searchable). A searchable database.
• L'Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - INRA (France)
• International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Andhra Pradesh, India (Headquarter)
• International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology: Biosafety WebPages from Trieste, Italy. This site gives free access to an updated scientific bibliographic database on "Biosafety and risk assessment for the environmental release of genetically modified organisms(GMOs)". The database is monthly updated and contains, to date, more than 1700 scientific articles (full reference + abstract), published on international scientific journals since 1990, selected and classified by ICGEB scientists for the main "topics of concern" for the environmental release of GMOs.
• International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), Mexico
• The International Vitis Database. Compiled by Dr. Erika Dettweiler & Dr. Rudolf Eibach, BAZ, Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof, Germany
• Introduction to Tomatoes, Thomas L. Rost, Section of Plant Biology Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis, USA.
• Keith's Tomato Page, by Keith Mueller, USA.
• The Maize Page. Maize resources for students, producers and specialists. Maintained by Ricardo J. Salvador, Agronomy Department, Iowa State University, USA.
• Malaysia Agricultural Directory and Index
• National Clonal Germplasm Repository (NCGR) - Temperate Fruit Genebank, Corvallis, Oregon, USA - a genebank that preserves invaluable plant genetic resources of temperate fruit, nut, and agronomic crops. This facility is one of about 30 sites in the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System and is located on land provided by Oregon State University.
• Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP), Montpellier, France
• Plant Genetic Resources Information by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• Pomology pages of Alain Roueche, France
• PROSEA Homepage - Plant Resources of South-East Asia, the Netherlands. PROSEA is an international programme focused on the documentation of information on plant resources of South-East Asia; covering the fields of agriculture, forestry, horticulture and botany; a research programme, making the knowledge available for education and extension; ecologically focused on promoting plant resources for sustainable tropical land-use systems; committed to conservation of biodiversity; committed to rural development through diversification of resources and application of farmers' knowledge.
• The Society for Economic Botany, from the University of Michigan, USA.
• Society for Economic Botany Editorial Offices. These pages provide access to the Editor (Lawrence Kaplan) and Book Review Editor (Daniel F. Austin) of the journal Economic Botany. Additional data are provided on editorial policy for the journal, a list of books available for review, and links to the Home Pages of the Society at New York Botanical Garden and Southern Illinois University.
• The Society for Economic Botany at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA.
• South African Mangoes Online. The official South African mango home page created by the South African Mango Growers Association.
• Soybase - Shoemaker Laboratory, Iowa State University, USA
• A Sweetpotato Sampler. Information on Ipomoea batatas.
• Tropical Feeds Database (FAO), Oxford, UK
• Underutilized Mediterranean Species Project (UMS), an initiative supported by the Italian Government which seeks to improve the conservation and sustainable use of the valuable but neglected plant genetic resources present in the Mediterranean region. The project's objective is to promote the conservation of genetic resources of UMS, both ex situ and in situ, to encourage the safeguarding of information relative to the conserved germplasm and to foster collaboration among institutions and organizations within the Mediterranean region. The project operates primarily through networking efforts spread throughout the region. Networks have already been established for rocket, hulled wheats and oregano; efforts are also underway, in collaboration with FAO, to strengthen genetic resources activities for wild pistachio species.
• The University of California Vegetable Research Info Center, USA
• The Utah State University Crop Physiology Laboratory, USA.
• The Virtual Orchard. The Virtual Orchard is a dedicated World Wide Web (WWW) site for the dissemination of information over the Internet on all aspects of sustainable apple production. The Virtual Orchard will also house WWW pages for research projects dealing with apples and other tree fruit production and marketing issues.
• WAICENT, World Agricultural Information Center from The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
• West Virginia University Experiment Farm at Kearneysville, USA. WVU's Tree Fruit Research and Education Center.
• World Economic Plants in GRIN (Agric. Handb. 505). This database is core of the botanical nomenclature for accessions of the National Plant Germplasm System. It includes many records of economic plants worldwide, and data on their uses, common names, literature citation and distribution.
• The Yam Bean Project's Homepage. Yam bean ( Pachyrhizus Rich. ex. DC., Fabaceae) is an underexploited tuber crop with great potential. In the quest for new, sustainable and high-yielding crops which may help in improving the diet and self-sufficiency of Third World countries, the tuber-bearing legumes have recently come into focus. These possess a number of attractive characteristics: they are highly nutritious and adaptable, impose few demands as regards soil quality and have good resistance to pests and diseases. In addition, being tubers, they will always produce a crop even if a sudden dry spell occurs. Since 1985, scientists working on the Yam Bean Project, which is funded under the European Community's Science and Technology for Developing Countries' (STD) programmes, have been examining the potential for this agricultural product, including methods of breeding and the scope for introducing it into areas where it is not presently grown. Dr. Marten Sørensen, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University in Denmark, is the co-ordinator of the Project.

Ethnobotany

• Aboriginal Trail in the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG). The trail is an interpretive walk focussing on plants used by the Australian Aborigines.
• American Indian Ethnobotany Database, University of Michigan, USA.
• The Baca Institute of Ethnobotany, Colorado, USA. The Baca Institute of Ethnobotany is a non-profit school dedicated to the preservation, collection, and research of traditional plant knowledge throughout the U.S. Southwest and Northern Mexico. Through the collaboration of Western Science and traditional approaches, the Institute helps traditional peoples in their efforts to record, preserve, and practice their plant knowledge, produces students that are culturally sensitive researchers, and offers community seminas and workshops, as well as undergraduate and graduate intensive field study for those wishing to pursue advanced ethnobotanical studies.
• Dining on the Wilds - Learning Nature through Wild Edible Plants and Ethnobotany by John Goude and Miriam Darnell-Kramer
• The Edible LC by Wes Stone, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, USA. 'Wild Foods in Our Own Environs' by Wes Stone. Seven foods (mushrooms, plants, fish) found in the wild near the city of Portland.
• Estudio etnobotánico en la Península de Samaná
• Ethnobiology and Conservation Team. This non-profit group has pages on their mission, careers in ethnobotany, the importance of conservation, and some articles on conservation and conservationalists. Among their missions is to retain diversity for the purpose of developing new medicines. Executive Director is Mark Plotkin, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
• Ethnobotanic Bibliography from Literature Useful to the Study of Florida Plants, by Kent D. Perkins, University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS), USA.
• The Ethnobotany Cafe, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the discussion and dissemination of ethnobotany. Topics also include the uses uf unusual plants in cooking.
• The Ethnobotany of Pinyon Juniper Woodlands, compiled by Peter T. Hraber, University of New Mexico Biology Department, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
• EthnoMedicinal Plants for Research and Development. A site dedicated to the transfer of information on the use of herbs and other natural products in biochemistry, pharmacology, and traditional medicine. The site has many links to books, botanical gardens, associations, shamanism, and databases. Dr. Anthony R. Torkelson is responsible for the site.
• Indigenous Plants and Native American Uses in the Northeast, by Tara Prindle, Connecticut, USA.
• Kinabalu Ethnobotany Project (PEK), Herbarium of the University of Florida, USA.
• Laurie Lacey's Wild World of Plants. Information on medicinal plants and trees used by the native people of eastern Canada.
• Late Woodland Zea Mays at the Vintroux Site, Putnam County, West Virginia, USA, an article by Charles M. Niquette and Gary D. Crites.
• Native American (Indian) Herb/Plant Knowledge by Paula Giese, USA.
• Native Edible Plants of Sabah (NEP) is a project initiated by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
• NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art by Tara Prindle, Connecticutt, USA
• Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases (part of the ongoing redesign project for Phytochemeco Database at the National Germplasm Resources Laboratory (USDA), USA):
  • EthnobotDB. The original Ethnobotany database is an SQL-based database developed by James A. Duke and Stephen M. Beckstrom-Sternberg. It is housed at the National Germplasm Resources Laboratory (NGRL), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), U.S. Department of Agriculture. The database contains 80,000 records of plant uses world-wide.
  • FoodplantDB. This publication reviewed approximately 80 years of literature, back to around 1850, listing 1,112 species in 444 genera of plants among120 families, used for food by the North American Indians.
  • MPNADB, Medicinal Plants of Native America. This database is based on a two-volume book of the same name published in 1986 by the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Michigan. The database - which contains 17,634 items representing the medicinal uses of 2,147 species from 760 genera and 142 families by 123 different native American groups - was built over a period of about 10 years with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
  • PhytochemDB. The original Phytochemeco is an SQL-based database developed by James A. Duke and Stephen M. Beckstrom-Sternberg. It is housed at the National Germplasm Resources Laboratory (NGRL), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), U.S. Department of Agriculture. The database consists primarily of plant chemical data, including quantity, taxonomic occurence, and chemical activity. Several interconnected databases included under the Phytochemeco aegis are an ethnobotany (plant uses) DB, and an ecological DB (including plant geography and climate).
• Plantas utiles del estado de Jalisco, Mexico. Es de gran importancia tener una panoramica general de las plantas que actualmente se conocen en el Estado de Jalisco, dado que por su clima, ubicacion geográfica y demas factores ambientales, lo convierten en el principal Estado con mayor diversidad florística de la Republica Mexicana.
• Plants of the Machiguenga, eastern Peru. In November, 1995, Dr. Ethan Russo, a neurologist, spent two months in Eastern Peru's rainforest looking for plants to treat headaches. You'll find photos of the plants he gathered here, along with botanical and medicinal information about them. You'll also find photos of birds, people and the rich forests of Peru.
• Prehistoric Food Production in the Midcontinental United States and Prehistoric Plant Use in New England. Bibliographies by David R. George, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, USA.
• PRELUDE, a data bank on traditional veterinary medicinal plants in Africa
• Second International Congress of Ethnobotany, 1997, Mexico.October 12-17, 1977, in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. The Autonomous University of Yucatan, along with other local, national and international institutions, look forward to the II International Congress, Ethnobotany '97, which will pay homage to the diverse cultures of the world, especially the prehispanic cultures of America and Mesoamerica such as the great Maya culture, from which we have inherited a vast amount of knowledge that is still valid today.
• Tico Ethnobotanical Dictionary
• The 24 Canoe Plants of Ancient Hawai'i. Text by Lynton Dove White of Hana, Maui, Hawaii, USA.
• University of Michigan, Laboratory of Ethnobotany, USA:
• Useful Wild Plants Home Page. The multi-volume work titled The Useful Wild Plants of Texas, the Southeastern and Southwestern United States, the Southern Plains, and Northern Mexico is the definitive economic botany study for the southern half of the United States and northern Mexico.
• Wild Food Adventures - Edible Plant Workshops & Expertice
• Wild Food Adventurer Newsletter. The 'Wild Food Adventurer' newsletter is about edible wild plants and other forageables. It covers gathering & preparation techniques, wild gourmet garden vegetables, ethnobotany, food plants of Native Americans, feature articles on wild foods, reviews of books & videos, edible plant identification, nutrition of wild foods, festival announcements, wilderness survival, sustainable living, sea shore edibles, poisonous plants, events calendar, book reviews, sea vegetables, and more.
• WWW Ethnobotany Resource Directory (Michael B. Thomas, Department of Botany, University of Florida, USA)

Herbal Medicine

• Algy's Herb Page, Algy's Medicinal Herb Page, USA
• alt.folklore.herbs newsgroup
• American Herbalists Guild. The American Herbalists Guild was founded in 1989 as a non-profit educational association specifically to address the the concerns and needs of herbalists specializing in the medicinal use of plants.
• Base de Dados de Plantas Medicinais, Brazilian Database of Medicinal Plants.
• Chinese herbal sciences and health resources directory from the Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute, Hot Springs, Montana, USA. Educational resources to help health professionals and aspiring herbalists gain clinical skills. Training programs and courses in Chinese herbal sciences and related health subjects, including environmental health, ethics, historical and legal aspects of herbal health care, nutrition, and herbal research. This site contains article and essays of interest to professional herbalists, people interested in the herbal sciences as a career, and to all professionals involved with public health. Keywords: Chinese herbology, TCM, herbology, herbs, herbal medicine, education.
• Cyberbotanica: Plant Compounds and Chemotherapy, by Lucy A. Snyder, Indiana University, USA. Cyberbotanica deals with the compounds used in cancer treatment and the plants that produce them. It includes natural histories of the plants, a table of chemotherapeutic compounds, and chemical illustrations.
• Day Kee Nu - Indian Herbal Medicines, USA. A native American Indian company selling herbal medicines used by the Kuye'di Tlingit tribe on the Kuiu Island, Alaska.
• The Essential Garden, garden of alternative health news, facts, forums, and shop.
• Henriette's Herbal Homepage. Henriette's Herbal Homepage features herbs, herbs, herbs, and herbs. It's the home of the medicinal and culinary herbfaqs; in addition you'll find neat stuff, pictures, archives, links, programs etc.
• HerbalGram, the journal of the American Botanical Council and Herb Research Foundation.
• Herbal Hall, USA - discussion list for professional herbalists.
• Herbal Medical Dictionary by Michael Moore, USA
• Herbal Medicine, University of Virginia, USA.
• Herbal Smoking Mixtures by Howie Brounstein, USA.
• Herbs and Spices, USA. Maintained by Jeffrey Dawkins and Ron Lunde.
• The Herb, Spice, and Medicinal Plant Digest, from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is an information source containing reports on the production, chemistry, and marketing of herbs, spices, and medicinal plants.
• HerbWeb, USA. HerbWeb examines medicinal herbs through a saturated web of hyperlinks.
• Herb Research Foundation News and Views - alternative medicine for health & wellness, USA, USA. The Herb Research Foundation (HRF) is a nonprofit research and educational organization focusing on herbs and medicinal plants.
• Der Hexengarten, Germany. Die Zauberkräuter des Mittelalters und ihre Wirkung, Harold A. Hansen (/in German).
• Howie Brounstein's Home Page, USA. Original works in Herbal Medicine, plant databases and checklists of the Pacific Northwest (on the herbalist's apprenticeship program),and ethno botanical notes.
• Indonesian Folk Medicine, USA (gopher).
• Legendary Ethnobotanical Resources, USA, a company in Homestead Florida, primarily interested in the cultivation and dissemination of rare ethnobotanical species; also common herbs and herb seeds as well as a full line of herbproducts and related items. Although their catalog is primarily retail, the organization is dedicated to the preservation of rare species.
• Medicinal Plants of Ibiza, Spain
• Medicinal Plants of the Prairie by K.R. Ziarkowski, Graduate Student in Plant Physiology Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University, USA.
• Medicinal Plants of the Quijos-Quichua Shamen, Amazonian Ecuador. Results of field-work conducted at Jatun Sacha Biological Reserve, Amazonian Ecuador on medicinal plants used by local shamen or curanderos. Plants listed include scientific names, vernacular names and their preparation and uses.
• Medicinal and Poisonous Plant Databases, University of Maryland, USA
• A Mini-Course in Medical Botany Syllabus by James A. Duke
• A Modern Herbal by Mrs. M. Grieve. Medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folk-Lore of herbs.
• Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences - Herb Articles, USA (gopher).
• Pharmaceutical Information Network, USA.
• Queensland Herb Society inc., Brisbane, Australia
• Reference Guide for Herbs, USA. This guide contains an overview and information on numerous herbs.
• SunSite Herb Archives, USA (this is a popular ftp site - may sometimes be difficult to connect).
• Vatican Exhibit: Herbals by University of Illinois, USA.

Plant Pathology

• All the Virology on the WWW. Links to virology related Web sites, an index to virus pictures on the web, The Big Picture Book of Viruses, a collection of some of the best Online Virology and Microbiology Courses available, and The Virology Bookshop. Maintained by David M. Sander, Tulane University, USA.
• American Phytopathological Society, USA. APSnet is an on-line service from the American Phytopathological Society that will allow you to obtain up-to-date information pertinent to plant pathology
• Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), USA
• Asia - Pacific Crop Protection Association Web Site
• The Australasian Plant Pathology Society
• Biological Assessment and Taxonomic Support Home Page, USDA, APHIS, Plant Protection and Quarantine, USA. BATS provides APHIS with the leadership in biological expertise required to identify, assess and manage plant pest risks. These services provide a scientific basis for regulatory decisions concerning the movement of plants, plant products and plant pests.
• Brasilian Phytopathological Society, Sociedade Brasileira de Fitopatologia
• British Society for Plant Pathology, UK.
• The Canadian Phytopathological Society - La Société Canadienne de Phytopathologie
• C A S A F E, Cámara de Sanidad Agropecuaria y Fertilizantes, Argentine Association for Crop Protection, Argentina
• The Cereal Rust Laboratory, USDA-ARS, USA. The Cereal Rust Laboratory is a national research center of the U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS). ARS is the principal scientific research arm of the United States Department of Agriculture. The Cereal Rust Laboratory is located on the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota.
• Common Names for Plant Diseases, USA. Compiled by the Committee on Standardization of Common Names for Plant Diseases of The American Phytopathological Society 1978-1993.
• Cooperative Research Center (CRC) for Tropical Plant Pathology, Australia, Brisbane, University of Queensland
• Cornell University, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Plant Pathology Department, USA.
• COST 816 - Biological Control of Weed in Europe. European research project directed by Heinz Mueller at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
• Database of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Resources (= DIR). Database of IPM Resources (DIR) is an information retrieval/referral system and a compendium of customized directories of worldwide IPM information resources accessible through the Internet. With DIR, one can quickly find the way to thousands of IPM information sites. The DIR presents these web resources in a logical, structured, and searchable way that greatly reduces the frustration and disappointment often encountered when using general search engines on the web.  The DIR covers a wide array of crops, pests, control tactics, regions, organizations, and related topics in a user-friendly format.  DIR's contents span most of the disciplines involved in IPM.
• Department of Crop Protection Homepage, University of Adelaide, Australia
• Department of Plant Pathology, University of Arizona, USA.
• Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, USA
• Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, USA.
• Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, USA.
• Digitized Electron Micrographs of Plant Viruses, Thorben Lundsgaard, C.J. Woolston and Ed Rybicki.
• DLO Research Institute for Plant Protection (IPO-DLO), the Netherlands. The DLO Research Institute for Plant Protection (IPO-DLO) is responsible for crop protection research in relation to agriculture and horticulture, natural vegetation and public parks. The institute does strategic research to promote economical and socially acceptable ways of protecting plants against diseases and pests.
• Electron Micrographs of Plant Viruses, Rothamsted Experimental Station, UK.
• European Journal of Plant Pathology
• Extension Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, USA, publishes Plant Disease Alert Newsletters and has a fact sheet index on plant diseases.
• Florida Agricultural Information Retrieval System (FAIRS), USA. FAIRS is a comprehensive library of research produced by the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences covering topics such as agriculture, energy, food safety and nutrition, natural resources, pesti cides and pesticide safety, turfgrass, water quality and wildlife. FAIRS consists of thousands of documents, illustrations, photographs and tables from major programs within IFAS.
• Forest & Shade Tree Pathology, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, USA.
• French Phytopathological Society, from Rennes, France.
• A Guide to the use of Terms in Plant Pathology
• Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon, France, and its Laboratoire de Pathologie Végétale (Introduction to Phytopathology).
• Institut für Pflanzenkrankheiten und Pflanzenschutz, Universität Hannover (Institute of Plant Diseases and Plant Protection, University of Hannover), Germany. Pages in English and in German.
• Institut für Pflanzenzüchtung und Pflanzenschutz, Universität Halle, Germany
• Institute of Arable Crops Research - Rothamstead, UK
• International Society for Plant Pathology (ISPP), from UK.
• International Institute of Biological Control, CABI International
• The International Working Group on Plant Viruses with Fungal Vectors (IWGPVFV), from IACR-Rothamsted, UK.
• Introductory Plant Pathology. A college course in Introductory Plant Pathology. Contains over 155 disease descriptions and over 700 images of plant diseases of agronomic and horticultural plants.
• Iowa State University, College of Agriculture, Department of Plant Pathology, Ames, USA.
• Italian Phytopathological Society, Società Italiana di Patologia Vegetale
• Michigan State University, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, USA
• Mississippi State University Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology Home Page, USA
• Molecular Plant Pathology On-Line. An international on-line journal edited and published by the British Society for Plant Pathology, UK.
• Montana State University, Bozeman - Department of Plant Pathology, USA.
• National Biological Control Institute, USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USA.
• National Integrated Pest Management Network, USA. Presented by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• National Integrated Pest Management Network, USA
• New Mexico State, University, Plant Pathology Laboratory, USA.
• North Carolina State University, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Department of Plant Pathology, USA.
• The Norwegian Crop Research Institute, Plant Protection Centre, NORPRE, Norway.
• Parasitic Nematodes Home Page, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska - Lincoln (UNL), USA.
• PEST CABWeb (CABI International). Covering entomology, nematology, weed science, biological control, plant pathology and many other aspects of pest management. - CAB INTERNATIONAL (CABI) is a treaty-level, international, intergovernmental organisation established in 1928. It is owned by its member governments, which currently (Autumn 1997) number 40.
• Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology
• Phytoparasitica, the Israel Journal of Plant Protection Sciences
• Phytopathologie, Faculté universitaire des sciences agronomiques, Belgium
• Plant Disease. Plant Disease is an international journal of applied plant pathology.
• Plant Pathology. An international journal edited by the British Society for Plant Pathology.
• The Plant Pathology Internet Guide Book by Thorsten Kraska, Institute for Plant Diseases and Plant Protection (IPP), University of Hannover, Germany.
• Plant Viruses Online Descriptions and Lists from the VIDE Database, Australia, by Brunt, A.A., Crabtree, K., Dallwitz, M.J., Gibbs, A.J., Watson, L. and Zurcher, E.J. (eds.) (1996 onwards). - The descriptions include data on host range; transmission and control; geographical distribution; physical, chemical and genomic properties; taxonomy and relationships; and selected literature references. Included are the database accession numbers (up to Gb[89] and Em[44]) of the genomic sequences of viruses and of satellite RNAs, and links to the NCBI taxonomy database to facilitate searchs for these and for more current accessions. There are generic-level summaries of data for viruses that are definitive or tentative members of genera or `groups'. There are also tables (with appropriate links) listing over 1500 host plant species, and their reported (experimental) susceptibilities to these viruses.
• Planteforsk, Norsk Institut for Planteforsking, Norway (in Norwegian).
• Purdue University, Botany & Plant Pathology, USA.
• Plant Parasitic Nematodes Database by CENARGEN, National Center for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brazil.
• The Resistant Pest Management Newsletter
• Sociedad Española de Fitopatología
• Southern African Society for Plant Pathology
• Taiwan Agricultural Chemicals and Toxic Substances Research Institute (TACTRI)
• Texas A&M University, Department of Plant Pathology, USA, keeps Texas Plant Disease Handbook (Texas Agricultural Extension Services's Texas Plant Disease Handbook).
• Unité de Phytophathologie, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• University of California, Riverside: Department of Plant Pathology, USA.
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Crop Sciences - Agronomy and Plant Pathology, USA.
• University of Minnesota, Department of Plant Pathology, USA.
• University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Department of Plant Pathology, USA
• University of Tennessee Entomology & Plant Pathology Section
• University of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of Plant Pathology, USA and Introduction to Plant Pathology (University of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of Plant Pathology, USA).
• Wageningen Agricultural University, Department of Phytopathology, the Netherlands

Poisons

• Allelopathy Research at the University of Savoie, France
• Arizona Poison Center - Poisonous Plants, USA.
• Botanical Dermatology Database (BoDD), UK. An electronic re-incarnation of BOTANICAL DERMATOLOGY by JC Mitchell & A Rook (Greengrass, Vancouver, 1979). It will eventually appear in printed form as Mitchell & Rook's BOTANICAL DERMATOLOGY, 2nd edition (Editor: Richard J. Schmidt PhD), probably as a series of four small volumes each covering an alphabetical group of plant families (A - D; E - K; L - S; and T - Z).
• Canadian Poisonous Plants Information System by Derek Munro, Biological Resources Division, Crop Protection Program of the Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Center, Canada. This information system provides details taken from literature references for over 250 plants that can poison livestock, pets and humans in Canada. Its interactive search engine provides information on plant names, distribution, toxic plant parts, toxic chemicals, and symptoms of poisoning.
• Cornell University Poisonous Plants Page, USA. This is planned as an extensive collection of plant and lesion images with text concerning the botany, chemistry, toxicology, diagnosis and prevention of poisoning of animals by plants. When completed, the public will be able to find pictures and information about toxic plants by: alphabetical listing of botanical names by genus and species), the plants' habit and appearance, the type of poisons present, systems and organs most affetced by poison (Nerve, heart, liver, skin, etc.), species of animals commonly affected.
• A Guide to Poisonous and Toxic Plants, USA. USAEHA Technical Guide no. 196.
• L'Herbier virtuel - Selection de plantes toxiques de la flore française. A selection of poisonous French plants.
• Medicinal and Poisonous Plant Databases, University of Maryland, USA
• Plants Toxic to Animals by Mitsuko Williams, Veterinary Medicine Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
• Poisons Information Database: Natural Toxins and Poisons in Plants Found in Singapore. Natural Toxins and Poisons in Plants found in Singapore, by Associate Professor P. Gopalakrishnakone, Department of Anatomy, National University of Singapore.
• Poison Information on Plants (Maryland Poison Center, USA). A list to make you aware of which common plants are known to be poisonous.
• Poison Ivy, Western Poison Oak, Poison Sumac by G. A. Mulligan, Canada. Three Canadian plants contain a poisonous sap that is the causative agent of Rhus-dermatitis, the most widespread skin disorder affecting Canadians. The three poisonous plants are poison ivy (Rhus radicans L.), western poison oak (Rhus diversiloba T. & G.), and poison sumac (Rhus vernix L.).
• Poisonous Plants Bibliography, from Literature Useful to the Study of Florida Plants, by Kent D. Perkins, University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS), USA.
• Poisonous Plants in Britain and Ireland on CD-ROM, UK. Two versions of a CD-ROM called Poisonous Plants in Britain and Ireland (formerly known as PLATO-UK) are being published by HMSO. The result of several years work by the Poisons Unit of Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital Trust and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, these CD-ROMs will enable non-botanists to identify common poisonous plants of the home, garden and countryside.
• Poisonous Plants in New Zealand, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research.
• Poisonous Plant Database (PLANTOX), USA. The Poisonous Plant Database is a set of working files of scientific information about the animal and human toxicology of vascular plants and herbal products of the world. The initial file is a bibliography and is to be supplemented in coming months and years with files of plant names and synonyms, plant uses, geographic distributions, animal species affected, signs, lesions, etc.
• Poisonous Plants Guide, Florida Agricultural Information Retrieval System (FAIRS), USA.
• Poisonous Plants of North Carolina by Dr. Alice B. Russell
• The Poisonous Plant Patch (Nova Scotia Museum, Canada). Poisonous Plants of Nova Scotia - identify them, read about symptoms, cures, folklore.
• Safe and Dangerous Herbs and Mushrooms. Lists compiled by the The Belgian Health Product Federation NAREDI.

Weeds

• California Exotic Pest Plant Council WebPage (Invasive plants). The California Exotic Pest Plant Council Web Page was created to provide wildland managers with information about the control and management of invasive plants (weeds, exotic plants, introduced plants, alien species).
• Environmental Weeds. An Australian weed links page focussing to environmental weeds or invasives, ie weeds that invade and threaten natural ecosystems.
• The European Weed Research Society. The European Weed Research Society is an international body which was formed in 1975. It is open to everyone who has an interest in weed research and related topics.
• Exotic Pest Plant Database, California, USA. This Gopher is managed by database working groups of the California Exotic Pest Plant Council (CalEPPC) and the Pacific NorthWest Exotic Pest Plant Council (PNW-EPPC). Its goal is to facilitate the compilation and distribution of information on exotic pest plants -invasive weeds.
• Hawaiian Alien Plant Studies. A forum to promote public awareness and exchange of information regarding problems associated with the spread of alien plant species (weeds).
• INVADERS - Database of Exotic Plant Names and Distribution Information. A database of exotic plant distribution records and regulatory information for the northwest United States supporting interactive query, reporting and graphics generation.
• Invasive Exotic Plants of Canada. An article prepared by Erich Haber, National Botanical Services, Ottawa, Canada.
• Tennessee Exotic Pest Plant Council, USA works to combat the spread of non-native plants by facilitating scientific discussion and increasing public awareness of this serious threat to ecosystems and our economy.
• Weed Identification Guide at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, Virginia, USA). A comprehensive identification guide containing weed images and botanical descriptions of common weeds and weed seedlings found throughout Virginia and the Southeastern U.S.
• Weed Images and Descriptions by by the Rutgers Cooperative Extension, Cook College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
• Weed Research. Weed Research is an international journal in which are published papers, in the English language, concerned with the study of weeds and their control, and related topics. It is sponsored by and is the official journal of the European Weed Research Society.
• Weeds of the native Hawaiian ecosystems
• Weed Science Society of Victoria, Australia
• Weeds of the Southern United States, Texas Agricultural Extension Service. This publication is inteded to help in recognizing 120 of the more common weeds in the southern United States (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia).
• Weeds of the World Project (World Weeds Database), Oxford Forestry Institute, UK. The World Weeds Database is based on the information contained in the book "A Geographical Atlas of World Weeds" by Leroy Holm, Juan V. Pancho, James P. Herberger and Donald L. Plucknett, which was published in 1979. The World Weeds Database displays information of over 2400 weed species around the world according of its rank of importance.

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