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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
  • bionet.ecology.physiology - Research into ecological physiology. Newsgroup | Archive
  • bionet.biology.grasses Newsgroup | Archive
  • bionet.maize - Newsgroup | Archive
  • bionet.biology.n2-fixation - Biological nitrogen fixation research. Newsgroup | Archive
  • bionet.mycology - Research into fungi. Newsgroup | Archive
  • bionet.photosynthesis - Research into photosynthesis. Newsgroup | Archive
  • bionet.plants - Newsgroup | Archive
  • bionet.plants.education - Newsgroup | Archive
  • bionet.plants.signaltransduc {tion} - Newsgroup | Archive
  • bionet.protista - Newsgroup | Archive
  • bionet.rust.mildew - Newsgroup | Archive
  • bionet.biology.tropical - Newsgroup | Archive
  • sci.bio.botany - Newsgroup
  • sci.bio.systematics - Newsgroup
• Bio-oriented Usenet Newsgroups - News servers differ in coverage
• 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]

• Agriculture, U.S. Department of (USDA)
  • Agencies of USDA
  • Agricultural Research Service
  • Medical Botany Syllabus
  • 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
  • Plant Gene Register (active 1995-2000)
• 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)
• Australian National University: Bioinformatics Hypermedia Server
• Base de Dados Tropical (Tropical Data Base, BDT) Portuguese and English
• 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
• 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 - Riverside
    • Plant Resources Information Laboratory (Q'TAXA)
    • 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)
  • FDA Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition
    • 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
  • Glossary of over 4400 terms relating to botany and horticulture
• Genomics News Network
  • Quick Guide to Sequenced Genomes
    • Arabidopsis thaliana (mouse-eared cress) - completed 2000 - GNN articles:
      • Paranoid but Popular: Mutant mouse-ear cress offers insight into natural plant resistance
      • Clickable genomics: Plans for virtual plant posted
      • SHATTERPROOF genes in Arabidopsis are good news for agriculture
      • What makes plants grow? The Arabidopsis genome knows
    • Oryza sativa (rice) - completed
• University of Georgia
  • Department of Plant Biology
  • Botany Hangman - javascript game!
• University of Guelph, Botany Department
• University of Hannover, Germany
  • Plant Pathology Internet Guide Book
• Harvard University
  • Ecology & Organismal Biology Resources
    • Arnold Arboretum
    • Farlow Diatom Catalog
    • eFloras Online, including:
      • Flora of China
      • Flora of North America
      • Flora of Pakistan
      • Moss Flora of China
    • Gray Herbarium
    • Harvard University Herbaria
  • Harvard Museums
    • Botanical Museum
    • The Fisher Museum at Harvard Forest
    • Peabody Museum
    • Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants (aka "The Glass Flowers")
• 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
  • Vatican Exhibit on Medieval Texts in Botany and Medicine and Biology
• Imperial College
  • NERC Centre for Population Biology
• Indiana University - Cyberbotanica moved to University of Texas
• 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)
  • Database of Plant Databases (DPD)
• 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 Plant Cell 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
    • Proceedings of the Mini-Symposium on Biological Nomenclature in the 21^st Century
    • 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
      • The Herb, Spice, and Medicinal Plant Digest and other herb resources
• 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
  • Arabidopsis Information Management System (AIMS)
• University of Minnesota
  • Univ. of MN Computational Biology Centers
    • Alces Server - Virtual Genome Center | Candida albicans
    • cDNA Sequence Analysis Databases - for Arabidopsis, Loblolly Pine, Maize, Brassica napus, Rice, Soybean, Microbial sequences, Diogenes, others...
• Missouri Botanical Garden
  Flora of Missouri
  • 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
  • Species Query
• University of Münster (Germany)
  • Institute of Plant Ecology
• 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
• University of North Dakota
  • Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server
• 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
• Princeton University
  • The Faces of Science: African-Americans in the Sciences
• 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 headlines and plant summaries
• 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 Texas
  • BioTech -- life sciences resources and reference tools
  • Cyberbotanica -- medicinal botany
• TIGR - The Institute for Genomic Research
  • Gemone sites for: Botany
• Tropical Forests Resource Group - Oxford, UK
• Traditional Plants Knowledge, Identifications (ethobotany)
• Virtual Courses in Biology
• UK Medical Research Council
  • Plant Genome Databases Menu
• Wake Forest University
  • Biochemistry at Wake Forest University
• Ultimate Tree-Ring Web Pages
• 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