Biocontrol of Plant Diseases Laboratory - "The Biocontrol of Plant Diseases Laboratory (BPDL) carries out basic and applied research to discover and improve methods for biological control of plant pathogens and weeds using beneficial microbes."
Cereal Disease Laboratory - The Cereal Disease Laboratory (formerly the Cereal Rust Laboratory) on the St. Paul Campus of the University of Minnesota is a national center for research on rust diseases of wheat, oat, and barley within the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It began in 1915 as a cooperative research project between the University of Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station and the USDA Bureau of Plant Industry. This site provides information on research and specific projects, access to publications and reports and has links to related Web sites.
Common Names of Plant Diseases - Presents the "Common Names of Plant Diseases," an electronic publication (ISBN 0-89054-161-2), compiled by the Committee on Standardization of Common Names for Plant Diseases of the American Phytopathological Society. Contains a table of contents with the plants listed in alphabetical order. Includes a search tool for common names. Offers ordering information for the hard copy and diskette versions.
Crop Protection Compendium - Includes information (text, maps and illustrations) on approximately 1000 pests, natural enemies, crops and countries focusing on South-East Asia and the Pacific, but including much information of global significance.
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Forage Crop Diseases - Search by disease or pathogen names for information on the symptoms and causal agents of forage crop diseases. Includes an encyclopaedia of fungi and links to other resources.
Online Guide to Plant Disease Control -- A reference tool for the control and management of important plant diseases in the Pacific Northwest. It contains the A to Z text sections and many articles from the Pacific Northwest plant disease control handbook.
Turfgrass Diseases - Diagnosis and Management -- This CD was designed to help commercial turfgrass managers, scientists, and students find out what diseases affect turfgrass and explains how to manage turfgrass problems. (library only)
Vegetable MD Online -- A collection of fact sheets about vegetable diseases. (Cornell University site)
Plant & Insect Parasitic Nematodes Home Page -- A searchable database of information on "Nematodes of the Northern Great Plains," "Nematode Diagnostics," "Molecular Identification of Nematodes Manual," and other resources. (University of Nebraska-Lincoln site)
USDA Nematology Lab Home Page -- Home page of the Laboratory. It's mission of the Nematology Laboratory is to develop environmentally safe control strategies for plant-parasitic nematodes and methods for utilizing nematodes as control agents of insect pests, thereby promoting agricultural sustainability, assuring food safety, improving water quality, and providing linkage to integrated pest management systems.
Radcliffe's IPM World Textbook - University of Minnesota's electronic textbook of Integrated Pest Management featuring contributed chapters by internationally recognized experts.
UC IPM Online -- Features the University of California (UC) Statewide Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Project in Davis, California, which develops and promotes the use of integrated, ecologically sound pest management programs.
USDA Regional Pest Management Centers -- Provides links to rapid and neutral dissemination of pest management information to growers, extension, consultants, regulatory personnel, and the public at large. Information is restricted to that provided by the U.S. land-grant university system and the U.S. government.
WWW Virtual Library, Mycology -- Comprehensive gateway to online resources on mycology and related subjects, including directories, discussion groups, journals, bibliographies, and teaching resources. Organized by type of resource and by subject. Includes search engine.
All the Virology on the WWW -- A collection of plant virology-related Web sites of interest to both professional virologists and the general public.
Descriptions of Plant Viruses -- This site is sponsored by the Association of Applied Biologists and is being developed and maintained by scientists at Rothamsted Research.
ICTVdb (The Universal Virus Database of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses) -- Developed and maintained by scientists at the Northeastern Biodefense Center, Columbia University. Includes an index of viruses; the taxonomic structure of virus orders, families and genera arranged in alphabetical order of the virus names; taxonomic order based on nucleic acid content and strandedness; and the host range. An interactive search tool (Intkey) for identification and information retrieval, and an online data entry system for the ICTV database are included.
Plant Viruses Online: Descriptions and Lists From the VIDE Database -- Provides a link to the VIDE database (Virus Identification Data Exchange) which has information on many species of viruses known to infect plants host range, transmission and control, geographical distribution, physical, chemical and genomic properties, taxonomy and relationships. Provides atabase accession numbers (up to Gb[90] and Em[44]) of the genomic sequences of viruses and of satellite RNAs and links to the NCBI taxonomy database to facilitate searches for these and for more current accessions.
American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) -- ATCC's repository is the largest and most diverse collection of microorganisms, cell lines, and molecular biology materials in the world.
CICP -- Home page of the Consortium, whose principal purpose is to assist developing nations reduce food crop losses caused by pests while also safe-guarding the environment.
Plant Pathology Internet Guide Book -- A subject oriented Internet resource guide for plant pathology, applied entomology, and all related fields.
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