INTERNET DIRECTORY FOR BOTANY: OTHER RESOURCES

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

Links that do not fit well into the other current categories, or links waiting to be moved elsewehere: Plant Genetics - Seeds - Standards - Other

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.
• Forest Genetic Resources in Germany
• 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.
• IPGRI, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, 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".
• Lehrstuhl für allgemeine Genetik, Universität Tübingen, Germany. The chair of "General Genetics" (Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Genetik) belongs to the Biological Institute. The research activities in GG are in the fields: Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Genetic Engineering of plants. The work of the four research groups in GG has several different basic and applied aspects; it is integrated in local (DFG-SFB), national (DFG, BMBF), and international (EC) co-operative research programs.
• 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.
• The National Plant Genetic Resources Network of Estonia, Jõgeva , Estonia
• The National Plant Genetic Resources Network of Latvia, Salaspils, Latvia
• The National Plant Genetic Resources Network of Lithuania, Akademija, Lithuania
• National Seed Storage Laboratory (NSSL) - Main Page, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA. The National Seed Storage Laboratory (NSSL) is a core facility for the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System. The primary mission of the Laboratory is to provide long-term preservation of plant genetic resources of important plant species for current and future generations.
• 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).
• The Nordic Gene Bank, Sweden, 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 Biology and Biotechnology, University of Delaware/DuPont. A new joint initiative of the University of Delaware and DuPont Agricultural Products emphasizing functional genomics.
• Plant Gene Register, edited by Paul Staswick, University of Nebraska--Lincoln, USA.
• The Plant Genetic Resources' Centre of the Netherlands, Wageningen, The Netherlands
• Plant Genetic Resources in Germany
• The Plant Genome Data and Info Ctr, USDA/ARS/National Agr. Lib. (Gopher), USA.
• Plant Genome Database Collaboration
• Plant Trivia Timeline. This timeline gives world history from the viewpoint of a botanist. It is the story of plant discovery and use, and demonstrates the roles of plants in human civilization.
• 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.
• SADC Plant Genetic Resources Centre (SPGRC), Lusaka, Zambia
• Sanger Centre, UK. The Sanger Centre is a genome research centre. Its purpose is to further the knowledge of genomes, particularly through large scale sequencing and analysis. - replaces SRS Sequence Retrieval System, UK).
• Sequence Retrieval System - Network Browser for Databanks in Molecular Biology (EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK)
• Sequences, Sources, Taxa (SST). SST provides links between source, collection, taxonomy, and molecular sequence data.
• Stanford genomic resources, USA
• The TIGR Arabidopsis thaliana Database
• 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.
• Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Kansas State University, Department of Plant Pathology (Manhattan, Kansas, USA)
• W.M. Keck Center for Genome Informatics, Institute of Biosciences and Technology (IBT), Texas A and M University (TAMU), Houston, USA.
• World Data Centre for Microorganisms Directory of culture collections, databases on microbes and cell lines. Gateway to biodiversity, molecular biology and genome projects. From the World Federation for Culture Collections in Japan.

Seeds

• The Kew Seed Bank at Wakehurst Place, from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK.
• SeedQuest. Information services for seed professionals. Directory of the worldwide seed industry, seed sources, calendar of events, new varieties, news, job offers.
• 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.
• BioCISE. BioCISE is a Concerted Action project funded by the European Commission, Directorate-General XII, Science, Research and Development, within the Biotechnology programme. The main aims of BioCISE (see also the abstract of the proposal) are to 1) identify and publish on the WWW a catalogue of European collection data resources which are available in electronic form; 2) identify and publish on the WWW a catalogue of European expertise in biodiversity informatics (companies, people, institutions with experience in implementing biological collection information systems), and 3) form a consortium and prepare a funding proposal project to implement a Biological Collection Information Service.
• Biodiversity Data and the World Wide Web Prospects and Problems. Symposium (May 1997) abstracts.
• A Common Datastructure for European Floristic Databases (CDEFD) by W. Berendsohn et al.; from Berlin, Germany.
• Draft BioCode: General Introduction by John McNeill, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada. Following review by the members of the IUBS/IUMS International Committee on Bionomenclature who had prepared the initial draft in 1995, and by others involved in committees dealing with biological nomenclature, the Draft BioCode is now being made available to the general scientific public. It was published in the May 1996 issue of Taxon (45: 349-372) and can be consulted electronically through a Listserver at University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. (biocode@cmsa.berkeley.edu; subscribe to listserv@cmsa.berkeley.edu)3, and on the World Wide Web at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada.
• Draft BioCode: the prospective international rules for the scientific names of organisms, prepared and edited by W. Greuter, D. L. Hawksworth, J. McNeill, M. A. Mayo, A. Minelli, P. H. A. Sneath, B. J. Tindall, P. Trehane & P. Tubbs (the IUBS/IUMS International Committee for Bionomenclature)
• Draft information Model for Biological Collections, Association of Systematics Collections, from Cornell, USA.
• A Guide to Botanical Nomenclature. This guide, prepared by Ronald H. Petersen, consists of comments, history and guidelines concerning the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
• Guidelines for the Care of Natural History Collections by Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, USA.
• Herbarium Information Systems Committee (HISCOM), Australia. The committee was formed in 1995 and consists of representatives of Australian Herbaria and some observers. HISCOM was formed as a working group to the Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria (CHAH). The aim of the group is to develop practical solutions to problems common to herbaria.
• HISPID, Herbarium Information Standards and Protocols for Interchange of Data, ERIN, Australia.
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Switzerland.
• The International Society for Horticultural Science: Dictionary of International Registration Authorities. International Registration Authorities (IRAs), whether they represent agricultural, forestry or horticultural disciplines, are appointed by the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) through its Commission for Nomenclature and Registration and are contracted to operate within the provisions of the current edition of the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP).
• International Union for Biological Sciences: Taxonomic Database Working Group (TDWG). The mission of the TDWG is to provide an international forum for biological data projects; to develop and promote the use of standards, and to facilitate data exchange.
• Proceedings of A Mini-Symposium on 'Biological Nomenclature in the 21st Century', University of Maryland, November 1996.
• Standards and Core Attributes for Biological Data, ERIN, Australia.
• Systematics Agenda 2000, Cornell, USA.
• TDWG International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases, Subgroup on Accession Data - Preparing for a Collection Data Standard
• TDWG Subgroup on Accession Data: Standards, Information Models, and Data Dictionaries for Biological Collections. Page maintained by Walter Berendsohn in Berlin.

Other

• L'Alphabet Celte des Arbres (Paul Moray, France)
• 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.
• Atlas de Anatomia Vegetal by Dra Jane Elizabeth Kraus & Juliana Pisaneschi, Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil).
• Australia's Forests Online is managed by the Environment Forest Taskforce within the Australian Environment, Sport and Territories Portfolio.
• 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).
• BioBox, Finland (server for molecular biology)
• Biographical Dictionary of Biologists by Nathaniel C. Comfort, USA. Biographies of 10 biologists (in Nov '96).
• Botanical Field Techniques Compiled by R. Liesner, Missouri Botanical Garden, USA These notes have been compiled to aid people in collecting and preparing high quality botanical specimens more effectively. In some cases, such as field book size, rather than make a recommendation, the advantages and disadvantages of different options are discussed.
• Botanical Latin Translation Service by Mark A. Garland, USA
• Botanik online (an online botany reader), Germany
• Botany 201, Taxonomy of Flowering Plants - Department of Biology, Texas A&M University. Includes a full set of lecture notes, lab exercises and other web-based teaching supplements. Developed and maintained by the Texas A&M Biology Department Herbarium (TAMU).
• Botany 1050, Introduction to Botany , California State University Stanislaus, USA, Fall 1996
• Canadian Forests. Canada's National Forestry Page with links to all the major Canadian forestry sites, a new email directory, and more. 'Canadian Forests' is a non-profit, private initiative on the Internet undertaken by John Roper, a forestry consultant based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
• 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.
• Careers in Botany, USA. This is an online version of the brochure "Careers in Botany" distributed by the Botanical Society of America (BSA) and the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT). Maintained on the server of the Department of Botany and Microbiology at the University of Oklahoma, USA.
• Carnivorous Plants Page by Barry-Meyers-Rice, Arizona, USA.
• Carnivorous plants and their habitats, by Joachim Nerz & Heiko Rischer & Oliver and Matthias Schmidt (Germany)
• A cladistic classification of flowering plants - Kåre Bremer, Birgitta Bremer and Mats Thulin, 1995
• Curious Scientific Names (part of Doug Yanega's home page). Ia io to Gammaracanthuskytodermogammarus loricatobaicalensis, and much more; do not miss this.
• Dictionary of Botanical Epithets, Chuck Griffith, USA.
• Dictionary of Science and Biotechnology. An online dictionary of over 6,000 terms, this searchable dictionary covers most terms of interest in biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cellular biology and genetics, with quite a few chemistry, ecology, medicine, pharmacology and toxicology terms. Although it is unillustrated, each entry has hyperlinks to biological terms in the definitions. Translations of the dictionary into Japanese and Chinese are underway. Site by the Indiana Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
• Didacticiel de Biologie Végétale
• Diversification of Gulf/Caribbean Mangrove Communities through Cenozoic Time. An article by Alan Graham, Department of Biological Sciences, Kent State University , Ohio, USA.
• DIVERSITAS - An International Programme of Biodiversity Science. DIVERSITAS is a partnership of inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations to promote, facilitate and catalyse scientific research on biological diversity ó its origin, composition, functioning, maintenance, and conservation. Its goal is to provide accurate information and predictive models on the status of biodiversity and the sustainability of the use of the Earth's biotic resources, and to build biodiversity science capacity world-wide. DIVERSITAS is the only existing programme that co-ordinates a broad research effort in the biodiversity sciences at the world level. DIVERSITAS is conducting research on many subjects directly related to the Articles of the Convention on Biological Diversity and can provide scientific and technical advice to governments and inter-governmental agencies regarding the implementation of Agenda 21 and the Convention on Biological Diversity.
• Dr. NAD's Pad: Neil A. Durso's homepage, USA. Cell biology biochemistry postdoctoral scientist's homepage for researchers and novices featuring the microtubule cytoskeleton, electron microscopy on fern sperm, and confocal immunofluorescence microscopy on tobacco cells.
• Eastern North American Phenological Network Home Page
• Elias Fries, Carl von Linne, or Carl Linnaeus, Olof Rudbeck, sr & jr. and Carl Peter Thunberg, biographical information from the Uppsala University, Sweden.
• 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)
• Field Botany and Plant Systematics and Evolution - BOTANY 2150/4500, University of Lethbridge, Canada
• 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.
• FireNet, The International Fire Information Network, Australia. FireNet is an on-line information service for everyone interested in rural and landscape fires. The information concerns all aspects of fire science and management - including fire behaviour, fire weather, fire prevention, mitigation and suppression, plant and animal responses to fire and all aspects of fire effects.
• Flowers of the Madonna by Harold N.Moldenke, Co-author of Plants of the Bible
• Forest Finland. Information on the forests and forestry in Finland, produced by the Finnish Forestry Association.
• 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. The IV Conference on Plant Taxonomy / IV Jornades de Taxonomia Botànica took place in Barcelona, Spain, from 19-22 September 1996. The congress had 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.
• GEOnet Names Server - National Imagery and Mapping Agency, USA. The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) database of foreign geographic feature names. Approximately 12,000 of the databases 3.3 million features are updated monthly with names information approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (US BGN).
• Global Phenological Monitoring Network. This site will inform you about the Global Phenological Monitoring project (GPM) that is part of the Phenology Study Group of the International Society of Biometeorology (ISB). This GPM-site tries to gather links and information on phenological research and data sets. The GPM-site is offering you the opportunity to put your own phenological information on the internet.
• Glossary of Botanical Terms . Bob Stewart's searchable database of over 1,600 terms relating to botany and horticulture.
• GORP US National Forests
• 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.
• Haller Project - Life and Work of the Physician, Scientist, and Poet Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777), Switzerland
• Host plants of the Finnish Lepidoptera by Markku Savela, Finland. Also images of Finnish plants, their English names, and much more. - Thank you, Markku!!!
• Identification of Common Trees of Iowa - An Interactive Key by iowa State University, Extension Forestry. The key is based on vegetative characteristics such as leaves, fruits, and bark.
• International Organization of Plant Biosystematists VIIth International Symposium (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Augusat 10-15, 1998)
• The Internet Biology Education (BioEd) Project, based in the Botany Department at the University of Western Cape, South Africa. The Internet BioEd Project aims to make use of the Western Cape Schools Network (WCSN) to evaluate the feasibility of producing and distributing teaching aids and making other resources available through Internet access by schools that are part of the WCSN.
• Introduction to Plant Systematics - Botany 221, Oregon State University, USA
• Journey into the world of phylogenetic systematics, UCMP Berkeley, USA
• Life Cycles and Phenology.
• Local Flora 3143C by Stinger Guala, University of Florida, USA. Local Flora 3143C is taught at the University of Florida in the Fall, Spring and Summer A semesters. In this course students will learn approximately 300 plant species growing within approximately an hour's drive of Gainesville.
• 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.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology Biology Hyper Textbook, USA
• 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.
• Missouri Botanical Garden Learning Network, USA
• The Museum Computer Network is a nonprofit organization of professionals dedicated to fostering the cultural aims of museums through the use of computer technologies.
• 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.
• Natural Perspective: Plant Kingdom by Ari Kornfeld, USA
• Natural Perspective: Protoctist Kingdom by Ari Kornfeld, USA
• Official Trees, Birds & Flowers Of The United States
• 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.
• Parasitic Plant Connection by Dan Nickrent, Southern Illinois University College of Science, USA
• 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.
• Photosynthesis. This succinct review covers the nature of light, chlorophyll & accessory pigments, chloroplast & photosynthetic membrane structure, an overview of the process of photosynthesis, the light reactions, dark reactions, C-4 pathway, carbon cycle and links to other relevant sites. Designed for a biology course, this site could also serve as a good review for grad students or instructors. Part of an online biology book by Michael Farabee, Department of Biology, Estrella Mountain Community College, Arizona.
• Photosynthesis Directory, MIT Biology Hyper textbook
• Piante Italia - A Site Dedicated to Plants
• Plant Evolution: Botany 403, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
• Plant Hormones, UK
• Plant Identification and Classification - Botany 113, Department of Botany, University of Washington, USA
• Plant Photobiology Notes (Pedro J. Aphalo, Finland). Notes about the responses of plants to light and ultraviolet radiation: methods, suppliers, publishers, software, phytochrome, photomorphogenesis, etc.
• Plant Physiology by Ross Koning, ECSU, Willimantic, USA
• 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:
• Plant Tissue Culture Resources. Carol's Plant Tissue Culture Resource Page contains information on listservs, protocols, supplies, plant cultures, sources of plants, where to get advice, science fair ideas, projects for school and hobbyists. Maintained by Carol M. Stiff. USA.
• Plants in Motion. Plant growth movements in response to germination, anthesis and phototropism in motion are the subjects of this site, illustrated by animated GIFs and QuickTime movies. Maintained by Roger P. Hangarter, Department of Biology, Indiana University, USA
• Plant Watch - phenological monitoring project by the Devonian Botanic Garden, University of Alberta, Canada
• Proceedings of a Mini-Symposium on Biological Nomenclature in the 21st Century held at the University of Maryland on 4 November 1996, Edited by James L. Reveal, USA
• Project Linnaeus was founded in 1995 with the creation of the international team responsible for the editing of the Linnean correspondence, a corpus of 7000 letters to and from Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern classification.The correspondence will be published electronically on CD, and on the world-wide web within the c18 project of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
• Raintree Marketing Home Page
• Science Professional Network.
• Science and Plants for Schools, Nottingham, UK. This is part of an educational network of Web and Gopher servers called PHYTOS.
• Seeds of Garden from the New Mexico State University College of Agriculture and Home Economics, USA.
• Skriptum zum Pflanzenbestimmen by Dr. Thomas Wagner & Dr. Uta Raeder, Technische Universität München, Limnologische Station Iffeldorf, Germany. Lecture series on plant morphology and systematics; in German.
• The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC)
• Spanish-English-Latin Glossary of Plant Names. Los nombres de las plantas en Español-Inglés-Latín; maintained by Jeffrey Nash.
• A Start at a Comprehensive Theory of Plant Hormones
• A Survey of the Plant Kingdoms by Frances M. Cardillo, O.S.F. and Tonya S. Samuels Department of Biology Manhattan College and the College of Mt. St. Vincent, USA
• The Tanzania Botanical Training Programme aims to address some of the urgent needs for botanical training in Tanzania.
• Taxonomy of Flowering Plants - Biology 211, Colby College, USA
• 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.
• Trees of Ohio
• TreeWeb: The Natural History of Trees. Information on the history, taxonomy, function, and geography of trees, with class sites for FOR 219 and 221, a set of Kentucky species sites (includes life histories, status, range, sites & soils, ecology, interactions, KY range and KY sites, ornamental and other uses), a forum and references. This is designed for North American use, but the developer plans to expand it in the future. Site by Thomas W. Kimmerer, Department of Forestry, University of Kentucky.
• Tropical Biodiversity Courses - Dendrology. Offer of two-week courses in Costa Rica teaching how to identify woody plants (trees, shrubs) in the American tropics (neotropics). Four contrasting climatic environments will be visited: The Central Valley (Premontane moist forests), The Monteverde Cloud Forests), The Guanac aste Dry Forests, and the Atlantic Moist and Wet Forests.
• The 21st Century Biology Class at Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC, USA
• 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. - Botany Collection Managers Group, UK Systematics Forum. - The Directory of UK Systematics Expertise and Current Research, UK Systematics Forum.
• Ultimate web pages about tree rings and tree-ring research by Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The University of Arizona, USA. The web pages are divided into several major categories: What's new?, Resources, Links to Tree-Ring Sites, Software, Principles, Classic References, a Photo Gallery, and Feedback and Comments.
• UK-Plant Hormones and Development Network
• 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.
• Wayne's Word - Natural history & plant trivia
• Western Australian Mangrove Page, includes and e-mail discussion list, a bibliography, links, and other resources.
• What Tree Is It? - an identification guide for trees of Ohio
• Wildflower Watch. Wildflower Calender for western Australia.
• The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, University of California, Santa Barbara Library .
• XVI International Botanical Congress, 1-7 August 1999, Saint Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.

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Raino.Lampinen@Helsinki.Fi, Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History (H)