Botany / Plant Biology (Biosciences)

Steve Wolf:
- Botany 1050 - Resources include: Twig Key, Genetic Code and "Code Cracker", Geologic Time Scale
- Botany 3700 - Resources include: Fruit Key, Images

California Institute of Technology

Meyerowitz's lab - specializes in Arabidopsis flowering

University of California
- UC - Berkeley
  - Museum of Paleontology
    - Introduction to the Plantae - The green kingdom
    - UCMP Paleobotany Type Collection
    - UCMP Microfossil Type Collection
    - Pacific Rim Biodiversity Catalog
    - Phycological Collections - algae
    - Phylogenetic Resources
    - Other Botanical Collections
    - Other Catalogs - Catalogs elsewhere
  - Plant & Microbial Biology
  - University and Jepson Herbaria
  - Green Plant Phylogeny Research Coordination Group
- UC - Davis
  - Chuck Gasser's lab - specializing in ovule developmental mutants
  - UC Davis Herbarium
    - Lasthenia - online newsletter
  - Dendrome, A Genome Database for Forest Trees
- UC - Irvine
  - The Faces of Science: African-Americans in the Sciences
  - UC - Riverside
    - Department of Botany and Plant Sciences
    - Department of Plant Pathology
  - UC - San Diego
    - Yanofsky lab - MADS box genes and Arabidopsis flower development
  - UC - San José
    - Carl W. Sharsmith Herbarium
- Canadian Botanical Association/L'Association Botanique du Canada
- Carnivorous Plant Database
- CMS Molecular Biology Resource - Compendium of resources for molecular biology (et al.)
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Books, Journal TOCs and more)
  - Gramene - Rice Genome Databases (joint with Cornell)
- Connecticut College Arboretum Collections
- University of Connecticut
  - The Bartlett Arboretum
  - Greenhouses
  - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- University of Delaware
  - College of Agricultural Sciences
    - Botanic Gardens
    - Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
- Cornell University
  - Gramene - Rice Genome Databases (joint with CSHL)
- Technical University of Denmark, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis
  - Bioinformatics Links
- Duke University
  - Chlamydomonas Genetics Center
- eFloras Online, including:
  - Flora of China
  - Flora of North America
    - Flora of Missouri
  - Flora of Pakistan
  - Moss Flora of China
  - Trees and shrubs of the Andes of Ecuador
- U. S. Department of Energy
  - Primer on Molecular Genetics
- EPA: Global Climate Change
- European Arabidopsis Stock Culture (NSAC) - plants, ontology database, microarray data
  - NASC's Affymetrix Service - transcriptome info
  - NASC Ensembl Genome Browser - browse Arabidopsis genome
- European Forest Institute
- European Molecular Biology Network
  - Hungary -- EMBNet Hungary - Agricultural Biotechnology Center
  - EMBNet Switzerland - Biocomputing, Biozentrum der Universitaet Basel
    - bionet.software.www Newsgroup
- European Plant Index
- ExPASy Proteomics Server
  - ExPASy Proteomics Tools - lots of protein databases
- Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
- Fairchild Tropical Garden
- Finnish Forestry Service
  - Silva Fennica (journal)
- Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago IL USA
  - Andean Botanical Information System
- Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki
  - Botanical Museum
  - Internet Directory for Botany - composed of a searchable alphabetical and subject index
- Florida Agricultural Information Retreival Service - FAIRS
- Flora of North America
- Flora of Europe - mega image site
- Florida Plants Online - specializes in Florida w/extensive links elsewhere
  - Florida Botany
  - Young Naturalist Page
- University of Florida
  - Herbarium (FLAS)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - also available in Français, Arabic and Español (lots of databases!)
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  - 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
  - Harvard Museums
- University of Hawaii
  - Hawaiian Native Plants - endemics
  - Hawaiian Silversword Alliance
  - UH Campus Plants - over 400 images
  - Vascular Plant Families - photographs for over 225 families
  - World of Lichenology
  - Henriette's Herbal Homepage
- Illinois Natural History Survey
  - The Tallgrass Prairie in Illinois
- University of Illinois
  - School of Life Sciences
    - Physiological and Molecular Plant Biology
- Imperial College
  - NERC Centre for Population Biology
- 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)
- Internet Biodiversity Service
  - International Organisation of Palaeobotany
    - Plant Fossil Record Database
    - Fossil Plant Maps
  - IBS: Vascular Plant Families and Genera
  - European Pollen Database
- Internet Directory for Botany - composed of a searchable alphabetical and subject index
- Internet Public Library - Plant Biology
- JASON Project: Virtual journeys to the rain forest, caverns, Iceland, Mayan ruins, coral reef of Belize and more
- Kazusa DNA Research Institute In Japanese in English
  - CyanoBase, a database on cyanobacter Synechocystis sp. strain PCC6803
- University of Kentucky (UKY)
  - TreeGuide: The Natural History of Trees
- Kew Royal Botanical Gardens
  - RGB Kew Databases - Vascular Plant Families and Genera, Authors of Plant Names, DNA Databases
- Kiwi Conservation Club - a Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society project for children
- Lakehead University Department of Biology, Plant Cell Biology Lab
- Lehle Seeds: normal and mutated Arabidopsis seeds for research.
- List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature - EVNT
- University of Liverpool
  - Ness Botanic Gardens
- Lund Unversity, Sweden
  - Department of Cell & Organism Biology
- Maize Genetics Cooperation Stock Center
- University of Manitoba
  - Department of Plant Science
    - Fristensky Lab
- University of Maryland
  - James Reveal's pages:
    - Plant Biology Lecture Notes for Non-majors botany
    - Plant Taxonomy Notes
    - Biomes of North America
    - Advanced Plant Taxonomy Notes
    - Index Nominum Supragenericorum Plantarum Vascularium
    - Vascular Plant Family Nomenclature
    - USDA - APHIS - Concordance of Family Names
    - Darwin-Wallace 1858 Evolution Paper
    - FindIT: Links to WebSites of Botanical Interest (somewhat dated)
  - http://www.life.umd.edu/CBMG/faculty/wolniak/wolniakmitosis.html">Mitosis (Steve Wolniak's pages)
- University of Massachusetts
  - Biological Sciences
    - Plant and Soil Sciences
- Master Gardener Information - Texas Agricultural Extension Service
- University of Melbourne - Australia
  - Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database
  - Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
- University of Michigan
  - University of Michigan Herbarium
- Michigan State University
  - Rice Genome Annotation site
- Missouri Botanical Garden
  - Index to Plant Chromosome Numbers (IPCN)
  - Photo Essays - see the world through MoBot's eyes
  - TROPICOS Database - access to the VAST (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclatural database
- Montana Natural Heritage Program (MTNHP)
  - Plant Species of Montana
  - Plant Species Guidebook
- University of Münster (Germany)
  - 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
- Oak Ridge National Laboratories
  - Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review -- an on-line and print journal
  - Paleovegetation maps - Global land environments since the last interglacial period
- Ohio University
  - Dept. of Environmental and Plant Biology
- University of Oklahoma
  - Department of Botany & Microbiology
  - Cal's Plant of the Week
  - Oklahoma Biological Survey
    - Catalog of the Woody Plants of Oklahoma: Descriptions and Range Maps
    - Rare and Vulnerable Plant Species of Oklahoma
  - Scott's Botanical Links - Index - College, AP biology educational links
- Oregon State University
  - Fun with Lichens - Database, images and species synoptic key
  - Oregon State University Herbarium Home Page
  - Trees of the Pacific Northwest
- University of Oxford
  - Oxford Forestry Institute
    - Prospect: The Wood Database
  - Plant Sciences
- PlaNet - high level plant genome database for the systematic exploration of Arabidopsis and other plants
- Plant Oils WWW Resources - hundreds of links to Internet sites
- University of Queensland
  - Centre for Biological Information Technology (CBIT)
  - Virtual Plants: 3D Measurement and Simulation of Morphogenesis
- Rice Genome Research Program
- UC Riverside
- Rochester Gardening - upstate New York site
- Rothamsted Research
  - Molecular Biology Notebook
  - Plant-Pathogen Interactions
- San Diego Fern Society
  - Fern Resource Hub
- University of Savoie
  - Allelopathy
- Sierra Club
  - Rare Plants of San Diego Co., California
- Science Daily plant and animal headlines
- National University of Singapore
  - Bioinformatics Centre
- Smithsonian Institution
  - National Museum of Natural History
- South Africa National Botanical Institute
  - Research - herbaria, ecology, conservation and SABONET project
  - Gardens devoted to the flora of southern Africa
    - Plant of the Week
- Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
- Stanford University
  - Stanford Genomic Resources, by topic
  - The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR)
  - HighWire Press - an online press of scientific journals, principally for non-profit organizations
- Swedish Museum of Natural History
  - Department of Cryptogamic Botany - incl lichen herbarium
  - Department of Phanerogamic Botany - seeds, publications, herbaria, links
  - The Linné Herbarium - Herbarium of Linnaeus Online(!)
  - Den Virtuella Floran - pictorial flora (in Swedish)
- State University of New York Environmental and Forest Biology
- TAIR - The Arabidopsis Information Resource - links to everything Arabidopsis superceding all preliminary sites. Contains all data and tools to analyze it ...
  - Arabidopsis genome overview
- Tasmanian Parks & Wildlife Service
- Texas A&M University
  - Bioinformatics Working Group
  - Plant Taxonomy
  - Plant Tissue Culture Information Exchange
- University of Texas
  - BioTech -- life sciences resources and reference tools
  - Cyberbotanica -- medicinal botany
- University of Toronto
  - Botany
- Tropical Forests Resource Group - Oxford, UK
- Traditional Plants Knowledge, Identifications (ethobotany)
- Wake Forest University
  - Biochemistry at Wake Forest University
- Ultimate Tree-Ring Web Pages
- J. Craig Venter Institute
  - Plant Gemone sites - castor bean, Medicago truncatula, rice
- University of Washington
  - Medicinal Herb Garden
- National Wildflower Research Center
- WDCM: World Data Center on Microorganisms - World Federation of Culture Collections
  - Directory, Databases and Dictionaries compiled/indexed by WDCM
- The World Lecture Hall -- on-line courses and courseware
- Universität Würzburg
  - Links for Paleobotanists
- Xerox PARC Map Server - generates maps from any location
- Yale University
  - Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Please send inquiries, URLs, corrections to: Scott Russell srussell@ou.edu, University of Oklahoma. Last updated Monday, 19-Jan-2009 00:48:51 CST. 929161