Useful web sites
Seed biology and conservation:
The Seed Biology Place Dr Gerhard Leubner, Frieburg
USDA ARS National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation
The Society of Commercial Seed Technologists
The Seed Biology group mailing list (google list)
The International Society for Seed Science - ISSS
Seed storage of native Hawaian plants
Seed germination conditions for gardeners
Educational material - mainly seeds and fruits:
Botany Online the internet hypertextbook; from Hamburg University
A simple fruit type classification with diagrams Horticulture and Crop science - Ohio state
Another key to fruit types California State University
Key to identify major fruit types Wayne's world
Biodiversity and Conservation - Peter J Bryant UC Irvine School of Biological Sciences
Wind dispersal of seeds (Waynes World)
Ransom Seed laboratory, USA knowledge base of native seeds
American Association of Official Seed Analysts, Inc - downloadable resources
Plant genetic resources and conservation - national and international bodies:
European Native Seed Conservation Network (ENSCONET)
World Conservation Monitoring Centre
The System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources (SINGER)
Natural England combines English Nature, The Countryside Agency and the Rural Development service
Botanical society of the British Isles
Flora locale restoring and protecting wild plant communities
United States Department of Agriculture : Plants National Database also images of species
Greening Australia doing something practical about Australia’s environmental problems
UK Department of for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs - Science
in DEFRA
UK Plant Genetic Resources Group
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the U.N. (FAO)
World Information and Early Warning System on Plant Genetic Resources
(WIEWS)
Plantlife International - wild plant conservation charity
Plant biology - biodiversity, systematics, evolution, ecology, etc.:
"Intute": Health and life sciences - useful reference material
Green Plant Phylogeny (University of California, Berkeley)
Plant biodiversity mapping, Universität Bonn
Department of Agriculture and Food -Western Australia Weed risk assessment and climate analysis
Australian National Herbarium, Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research
Society for Experimental Biology - Resources and information on Biology and Biochemistry
Species 2000 - indexing the world's know species
American Society of Plant Biologists
Society for Ecological Restoration International
Flowering Plant Gateway - various higher level classifications compared http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/newgate/cronang.htm
The Angiosperm Phylogeny website
http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/welcome.html
9th ISSS International Conference on Seed Biology, Olsztyn, Poland,
July 6-11 2008
Unit of Comparative Plant Ecology, University of Sheffield, UK - research into seed ecology and regeneration
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~nuocpe/ucpe/
LEDA Traitbase - a collaboarative database of species traits for the NW European flora, including seed and regeneration
New World Fruits database Bioversity International
Arable Seed Identification System (ASIS) - Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee, UK
The Seedsite - website devoted entirely to seeds written by an enthusiastic gardener
Glossary of seed and seedling terms
http://www.ibiblio.org/botnet/glossary/a_xii.html
Images of plants:
Flora of Europe - a photographic herbarium
Thomas Schoepke's plant image gallery
Images from Curtis' Botanical Magazine
Digital Flora of Texas - Vascular plant image library
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.htm
Site with information and high quality images of the UK flora and fauna
and links to other image catalogues. The
address below takes you straight to the vascular plants section:
http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/T17661.HTM
Tropical fruit photos
http://tfphotos.ifas.ufl.edu/
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
http://plants.nrcs.usda.gov/cgi_bin/link_categories.cgi?category=linkphotos
UK native seed suppliers:
British Wildflower Plants - UK native seed and plant supplies
Landlife Wildflowers - UK native seed supplies
Herbiseed - UK native seed supplies
Emorsgate Wild Seeds - UK native seed supplies
ECOFLORA Fairtrade and Organic florist, Canada.
Other
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (USA) worldwide place names and location