Botany online - The Internet Hypertextbook

Workshop Series C - July 22 - 25, 2001 Science for All: Integrative Biology
Introductions:
The World Wide Web: The Ultimate Information Source for Teaching Biology to Non-Majors:
Alice Bergfeld, Yolanda George, Peter von Sengbusch
We will present projects collected in our internet library (The Internet Library - Teaching Botany and Related Topics) focussing on our own project Botany online and on other non-major subjects. The session will include a discussion and - if possible some interactive part.
Resources: Botany Online: http://www.rrz.uni- hamburg.de/biologie/b_online/

Virtual Plants? - Enhancing Learning with Information Technology - Peter Sengbusch, Professor, Universitat Hamburg (Botany-Online) [Dr. Sengbusch is constructing an internet resource of web-projects before the meeting and invites anyone who would like their web teaching resources included to contact him at b-online@botanik.uni-hamburg.de]

Alice Bergfeld - Biologist - BOTANY Online - The Internet Hypertextbook - b-online@botanik.uni-hamburg.de - Biographical Sketch

Peter V. Sengbusch - Professor of Biology - University of Bielefeld - Permanent Visiting Scientist - The Institut für Allgemeine Botanik, University of Hamburg
BOTANY Online - The Internet Hypertextbook - b-online@botanik.uni-hamburg.de - Biographical Sketch:

Report about: ASPP Meeting, Baltimore, USA (24 - 28 July 1999) - Helen Ougham helen.ougham@bbsrc.ac.uk
From Baltimore we went on to St Louis (43 deg C in the shade the day we arrived) for the XVI International Botanical Congress. The size of the meeting was mind-blowing: 6000-odd delegates (some very odd indeed, including such SEB stalwarts as Dennis Francis and John Bryant) from every continent including Antarctica. The vast remit of the Congress included much that had an educational slant, including several posters, and demonstrations of electronic teaching aids. This was all emphasised by the wonderful CD-ROM given to every delegate. It included all the conference abstracts (also available from http://www.ibc99.org/) but much more too, including a large section on internet teaching which lets the user link to the relevant Web sites. I've been using "Botany Online - the Internet Hypertextbook" for a year or so already, but this ambitious project based in Hamburg is continuing to evolve, and the CD featured many of the recent developments, including the "virtual plant" growth models. You can get to the Internet site on http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/biologie/b_online/e00/default.htm. The only minor snag is that the project originated as a German textbook, and parts of the text and associated material are still available only in German, though the English translation is an ongoing process (meanwhile, I'm learning German...). Other highlights of the CD-ROM, for me, were the interactive molecular models, ranging from intermediates in glycolysis to the light-harvesting complex of Photosystem II; and the demonstration of the interactive identification and information retrieval program Intkey (illustrated with a couple of sample databases, Grass Genera of the World and Flowering Plants Families, also on the CD).

Grades 9-12 - Physical Science
Botany online: Physical Chemistry - http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/biologie/b_online/e18/18.htm
A fine description of physical chemistry with informative images of chemical bonds and much,much more...
Submitted on M D, Y by Diana Lemmon, Student at the U Of M.

Botany Links
Herbarium, Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Taipei: Botanical Database
American Bryological and Lichenological Society
American Society of Botanical Artists
The Biota of North America
Bishop Museum Botany Page
Botanical Institute of the Chinese Academy of Science
Botanical Society of America
Botany online - The Internet Hypertextbook
Botanical Word Meanings and Names Derivations
Craig's Juicy Native Grass Gossip and Research
Field Museum of Natural History - Botany
Flora Europaea
FLORIN Information System
Harvard University Gray Herbarium Card Index
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Index Herbariorum
International Aroid Society
International Organization for Plant Information
International Organization of Paleobotany
International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
Internet Directory for Botany
LichenLand
Maize Genome Database
Missouri Exotic Pest Plant Council's Invasive Plant Page
Muskoka Flora, Checklist of Vascular Plants
National Biological Information Infrastructure (nbii) - Botany
National Botanic Institute South Africa
National Plant Germplasm System
National Herbarium of Trinidad and Tobago
Natural History Museum (London) Department of Botany Databases
Plant Resources Information Laboratory (Q'TAXA)
Sierra Nature Prints
Specimen Management System for California Herbaria (SMASCH)
Texas Endemic Vascular Plants
University of Michigan Herbarium

Bromeliad Links
Botany online: Liliopsida - Zingiberidae: Bromeliaceae - Tillandsia usneoides in an epiphytic state (Merida, Venezuela), Further epiphytic bromeliads of Venezuela

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On this page you will find links to articles and plant databases on the web.
California Wildflowers- Look-up photos and descriptions of California - wildflowers.
Basic Principles of Genetics - An Introduction to Mendelian Genetics
Delaware Wildflowers - Pictures of Delaware wildflowers
Minnesota Prairie - Learn about the prairie ecosystem with a prairie restoration game, prairie QTVR panoramas through the seasons, field activities, and more!
Wyoming Rare Plant Field Guide - Information to assist in the identification of the rarest plant species in Wyoming
Botany Online- The Internet Hypertextbook
American Journl of Botany
Neo Flora - the worlds largest Plant Data Base
Botany.Com, - the Encyclopedia of Flowers and Plants

Taxonomy Links
A Guide to Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Sponsored by the Center for New Crops and Plant Products.
Bilder ur Nordens Flora Swedish names of plants.
Botany online - German names of plants.
The Calflora database CalFlora exists to provide information on California plant biodiversity for conservation, research, and education.
DELTA Databases Searchable databases using the DELTA system.
den Virtuella Floran
Flowering Plant Gateway "Various paths for exploration or comparison of four systems of flowering plant classification."
GRIN Taxonomy "Provide the structure and nomenclature for the accessions of the National Plant Germplasm System
(NPGS). Many plants (37,000 taxa, 14,000 genera) are included in GRIN taxonomy, especially economic plants."
The Index Nominum Genericorum (ING), "a collaborative project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) and the Smithsonian Institution."
Department of Systematic Botany Uppsala University
Internet Directory for Botany Lots of interesting taxonomy links.
International Plant Name Index Query page.
TROPICOS The Missouri Botanical Gardens taxonomy database. One of my favorites.
The NCBI Taxonomy Homepage Taxonomy links and references.
Plants for a Future Database "A resource centre for rare and unusual plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other uses."
PlantNET "can be searched for information on New South Wales plant names, their distribution and their conservation status."
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Databases
The PANDORA taxonomic database system of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
University of Hawaii Vascular Plant Families Database