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Horticulture Research Guide
Useful
Horticulture Web Sites
Relevant Web
Sites: Botany, Horticulture
- Biodiversity
and Biological Collections Web Server -
http://biodiversity.uno.edu/
Find information about specimens in biological collections, taxonomic authority
files, directories of biologists, reports by various standard bodies, access
to online journals, etc.
Horticulture
in Virtual Perspective -http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/hcs/hcs.html
Provides data on plant biology, a large database of horticulture factsheets,
a plant dictionary, and images, solutions to gardening problems, market
trends for fruits and vegetables, horticulture as a profession.
Internet Directory for Botany -http://www.helsinki.fi/kmus/botmenu.html
Links to over 4,000 Botany sites on the Web, divided into 18 categories
including botanical gardens, biologist's addresses, botanical museums, botanical
societies, taxonomic databases, gardening, images, literature databases,
newsgroups, lower plants, university departments, and more.
WWW
Virtual Library: Botany -http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/www-vl/
Directory includes links to many research, educational sites, journals,
organizations, databases, and documents related to plant biology or botany.
HORT FYI - http://hortfyi.com
links to the horticultural and greenhouse industries.
Plant
Dictionary- Ohio State University-
http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/plants.html
Plant Dictionary is an indexed system of teaching resources for the discipline
of Horticulture and Crop Science
Something
to grow on- http://www.cals.cornell.edu/dept/flori/growon/index.html
Nutrient Managment page produced by Cornell Cooperative Extension
North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service
-http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/
Consumer
Horticulture- Gardening in NC- http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/
A great resource for gardeners in NC created by the North Carolina Cooperative
Extension Service. Contains plant fact sheets, links to public gardens,
soil information and much more.
Hortbase -http://www.forages.css.orst.edu/HortBase/
American Society of Horticultural Science
Plant Gene Register -http://www.tarweed.com/pgr/index.html
American Society of Plant Physiologists
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Grant
and Contract Information
Community of Science Funded Research
-http://fundedresearch.cos.com/
National Science Foundation Grants and Awards -http://www.nsf.gov/home/grants.htm
USDA Research (CRIS) Database- http://cristel.nal.usda.gov:8080/
GrantsNet-
http://www.grantsnet.org/
Funding opportunities in the biological and medical sciences
North Carolina State University Research Administration:
Resources http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/research_outreach_extension/resources/
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Full
text, numeric and analysis databases
Hortbase
- http://www.forages.css.orst.edu/HortBase/
American Society of Horticultural Science
NCBI
Taxonomy Database - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html/
You can browse the taxonomy tree or search this giant taxonomy database. Although
this resource includes species of living organisms, including animals and
bacteria, there are 28,335 species in Viridiplantae included in the database.
Plant Gene Register-http://www.tarweed.com/pgr/index.html
American Society of Plant Physiologists
Plants National Database -http://plants.usda.gov/plantproj/plants/index.html
The PLANTS Database is a single source of standardized information about plants.
This database focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and
lichens of the U.S. and its territories. The PLANTS Database includes names,
checklists, automated tools, identification information, species abstracts,
distributional data, crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant
materials information, plant links, references, and other plant information
SciSeek
-http://www.sciseek.com
Searchable database on a huge number of links to science and nature Internet
resources on agriculture, astronomy, animals, biosciences, botany, environment,
chemistry, engineering, forestry, health, physics, veterinary science, and
more.
USDA
National Agricultural Statistics Service -http://www.usda.gov/nass/
Access to NASS reports, USDA Economics and Statistics System reports and datasets,
state agricultural statistics reports, report graphics, and agency information.
USDA Research (CRIS) Database- http://fundedresearch.cos.com/usda/usda-intro.shtml
(via the Community of Science)
U.S Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Patent Database -http://patents.uspto.gov/
For
Fun
The
Secret Garden- Floral Radiographs - Stunning virtual gallery of floral
radiographs made by Albert Richards, a professor at University of Michigan
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