Below are some fun / potentially helpful sites for people with an interest in plant biology. Happy browsing!

General Interest | Plant Pictures | Plant Physiology Journals | Societies

Internet Directory for Botany.

Lifescience Dictionary. Need a quick explanation of a biotech or biology term? Try this!

Plant Encyclopedia. Wondering how to pot your African Violet? Try this database for detailed instructions on plant care.

Illustrated Glossary of Plant Pathology. Quick reference (including excellent pictures) for all terms pertaining to plant disease.

Plant Hormones.  History, biochemistry and biotechnological uses of plant hormones; links to plant hormone book reviews, lecutres, and molecular structures; directory of plant hormone researchers, e-mail discussion group.

USDA Plant Database. Information on crop plants, weeds, invasive plants, threatened and indicator species.

Neoflora. Information on thousands of plant species and cultivated varieties.  Quality of information varies by entry.

Transgenic Crops.  Background on how transgenic plants are generated and regulated, news updates on various issues pertaining to transgenic crops. Maintained by the University of Colorado.

Flora of Europe. Photographs and descriptions of 660 European plant species. Organized by family and genus names.

Plant & General Botany Images. Intro Botany-type image collection and an additional collection of ~4000 slides on plant families. Maintained by the University of Wisconsin. Images are cataloged by systematic relationships - unless you know your plant's genus, family, and division, you will have a hard time navigating this picture collection. However, once you get the hang of it, it's more than worth it.

Land Plants Online. A large collection of plant images and information about the evolutionary relationships between different land plants.

Botanical Society of America. Plant Geography, Plant Morphology, Phloem Development, Xylem Development, Floral Ontogeny, Lichens, Economic Botany, Carnivorous Plants, Organography, Pollen, Paleobotany, Plant Defense Mechanisms, Plant Anatomy, and Cellular Communication Channels.

Biodidac. A bank of digital biology images that is available for non-commercial use in teaching and learning. Includes beautiful, clear line drawings of plant anatomy.

Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology Full text access to review articles from 1996-1999. Pelletier Library has the hardcopy version of these and earlier/later volumes.

Functional Plant Biology (formerly "Australian Journal of Plant Physiology"). Selected sample papers only.

International Journal of Plant Sciences. Full text access to all articles published since November 1998. Pelletier Library has the hardcopy versions of these and earlier issues.

Journal of Plant Growth Regulation.    Tables of contents, some abstracts.

Physiologia Plantarum. Abstracts only.

Plant Physiology. Full text access to all articles published since 1998. Pelletier Library has the hardcopy version of these and earlier volumes.

Plant Cell Reports. Abstracts only.

Planta. Abstracts only.

Plant Molecular Biology Reporter. Full-text articles from 1996-2001.

The Journal of Experimental Botany. Full text articles for issues from mid-1997 through January 2001. Abstracts only for newer issues and for 1996.

The Plant Cell. Full text access to all articles. Pelletier Library also has the hardcopy version of these and earlier volumes.

Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica. Full text access to all articles.

ASPP.    American Society of Plant Physiologists. These are the people who publish Plant Physiology and Plant Cell (available at Pelletier Library and on line). The site has information on conferences, educational resources, and a job bank - recommended for search of graduate assistantships in any area of plant physiology.

Botanical Society of America.  Includes links to plant images, and information about careers in plant-related fields.

PGRSA.   Plant Growth Regulator Society of America. Publishes the Journal of Plant Growth Regulation. More links to plant-related conferences, job banks, and other plant hormone sites.

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