Agriculture - Horticulture - Plants - Fruit

National Plant Germplasm Sites and Non-Government Genetic Resource Programs

United States

• National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS)
• Other Plant Germplasm Repositories within the NPGS.
• U.S. National Genetics Resource Programs for Livestock, Invertebrates, and Microbes.
• California Rare Fruit Growers.
• North American Fruit Explorers.
• Northern Nut Growers Association.
• Plant Gene Register - from the American Society of Plant Physiologists.
• Links to Genetic Resource Sites - a guide to genetic resource links, including plants, animals, and microbes - from the Biotechnology Center at the University of Wisconsin.

International

• The International Plant Genetic Resources Institute - Headquarters of IPGRI is in Rome.
• The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United nations - Access to vast libraries of information in several languages.
• REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE WORLD'S PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES from IPGRI.
• Nordic Gene Bank - Plant genetic resources of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
• UK Plant Genetic Resources - Organizations involved with plant genetic resources in the United Kingdom.
• Canadian Biodiversity Network
• CGIAR - International Crop Centers The Consultative Group on International Agriculture has links to the 16 Centres around the world.
• Plant Genetic Resources at the Vavilov Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
• Plant Germplasm Program at the University of Agriculture, Nitra, Slovak Republic.
• AMBRAPA/CENARGEN in Brazil - with information on biodiversity, biotechnology, genetic resources, biosafety, molecular biology, and germplasm collections.

Fruits and Nuts

• North Carolina Coop Extension Horticulture Information Leaflets for Small Fruits and Leaflets for Tree Fruits
• National Agricultural Statistics Service - United States fruit, nut and vegetable reports.
• Northwest Berry and Grape Infonet
• The Virtual Orchard - Take a virtual bite from one of these apple trees growing at the University of Vermont.
• Oregon Berry Commissions - Blueberry, Strawberry, Blackberry and Raspberry.
• The Tree Fruit Directory - Commercial Washington Tree Fruit Organizations.
• Shakespeare and others have found profound symbolism in The Fruit of the Medlar.
• Descriptions and photos of disease resistant apples
• USDA-ARS Tree Fruit Research at Wenatchee, Washington
• Know your USA Pears - Brought to you by the Oregon, Washington, California Pear Bureau.
• Descriptions and images of Post Harvest Diseases of Pears.
• The National Research Support Project NRSP-5 (formerly IR-2) in Prosser, Washington, develops virus free temperate fruit trees.
• Paw Paw Fact Sheet developed by Asimina expert Desmond Layne at Kentucky State University.
• A private organization in Australia provides blueberry and cranberry health information and recipes.
• The North American Blueberry Council Web Page.
• Laboratory of Applied Physiology for Vegetables in Kurume, Japan. Maintained by plant physioligist Atsushi Yamasaki. Strawberry research abstracts.

Mint and Hops

• Summit Plant Laboratories Mint Stocks Produced in vitro.
• Information on Mint and Mint Growing provided by the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company.
• Common Names of Hop Diseases
• Oregon Hop Commission
• The National Hop Association of England

Agriculture - Horticulture - Botany

• BIOSCI is a set of electronic communication forums - the bionet USENET newsgroups and parallel e-mail lists used by biological scientists worldwide.
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service.
• The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
• Directory of resources of interest to botanists and horticulturists.
• Biological societies and organizations.
• Harvard Biosciences links to biological science sites.
• A directory of common names of plant diseases - maintained by the American Phytopathological Society.
• Access to international information in a number of agriculture and environmental areas.