Tutorial Material for Botanists

This page is under constant improvement. It is part of the Israeli Society of Plant Sciences site It includes links to sites related to teaching all aspects of botany.

1. General

   • The eLearning site for Botany
   • Botany online - The Internet Hypertextbook from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Most chapters are also available in English. Also at this site.
   • The Arabidopsis (virtual) Book, by ASPB
   • Biology Pages by Dr. John W. Kimball
   • University of Maryland, College of Life Sciences, On-line course information
   • Courses on the Web, Iowa State University, Department of Agronomy
   • Plant Genome Data Base, Iowa State University
   • Courses on the Web, Purdue, Department of Horticulture
   • Undergraduate and graduate courses on the Web, Purdue, Department of Agronomy
   • Univ. of Illinois, Dept Natural Res. Env. Sci. course listing
   • Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
   • Plant Facts, Ohio State Univetsity
   • AgNic Plant Science home page
   • MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
   • Botanical courses material, The University of Wisconsin, Department of Botany
   • Web resources for Botany & Plant Biology courses, Rhodes University, South Africa
   • Courseware at University of Western Cape, South Africa
   • Courses by Ross Koning, East Connecticut State University
     • Plants and Human Affairs
     • Plant Biology
     • Plant Physiology
     
     
     

2. Plant Systematics

   • World Biodiversity Database
   • Species 2000 - Indexing the world's known species
   • Global Plant Checklist
   • USDA Plants Project
   • The Gymnosperm Database
   • Hortiplex plant database
   • Flowering Plants Gateway
   • Phylogeny and Biodiversity
   • Plant Name Index
   • Index of Suprageneric Names
     
     
   • Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Miami
   • Systematics of Plants, University of Illinois
   • Plant Evolutionary Biodiversity, University of Hawaii
   • Flowering Plants Course, California State University, Stanislaus
   • Vitual Palaebotanic Laboratory, University of California Berkeley
   • Interactive Plant Classification
   • Plant Evolutionay trees
   • The Plant Kingdom course, The University of West Indies, Barbados
   • Plant Taxonomy course, Texas A&M University
   • Flowering Plant Taxonomy course, Colby College
   • Systematics of Flowering Plants, The University of Illinois
   
   
   

3. General Plant Biology

   • The Botany Quarter of Biological Foundations
   • Plant Biology, Ohio State University, Lima
   • Economic Botany, UCLA
   • Ethnobotany
   • Insect Pollination of Cultivated Crop Plants, by USDA-ARS Tucson, AZ
   
   
   

4. Plant Structure

   • Virtual Plant Cell
   • Arabidopsis cell patterning, Cambridge
   • Plant and Fungal Biology, The University of Minnesota
   • A glossary of terms in morphology of vascular plants, The University of Minnesota
   • Developmental Anatomy, Rhodes University, South Africa
   • Plant Development and Anatomy, University of Kentucky
   • Plant Structure, Central Array of Relayed Transaction for the Advance of General Education, Lebanon
   • Modules in Plant Anatomy, The University of Sydney
   • Angiosperm Stucture & Function Tutorials, Cornell
   • Photographic Atlas of Plant Anatomy, University of Wisconsin
   • Introduction to microscopy - Botany
   • Form and Function in Algae and Plants, University of Hawaii
   • Plant Anatomy, University of Hawaii
   • From an on-line book by M.J. Farabee
        Plants and their structure I
        Plants and their structure II
        Flower Structure
        Fertilization and Fruits
   • Palynology site, The University of Arizona
     
     
   • The McIntosh Apple Development Poster
   • Cotton fibers up close
   • Dendrochronology and Wood Biology, Hamburg, Germany
   
   
   

5. Plant Physiology

   • Plant hormones, nutrition and transport From an on-line book by M.J. Farabee
   • Plant Biochemistry, University of Kentucky
   • Lab excercises using Ceratopteris richardii
   • Plant Physiology Lab Modules, The University of Sydney
   • Plant Physiology Calculations, The University of Sydney
   • Physiology of woody plants, Oregon State University
   • Plant Effects on Soil Water, The University of Texas
   
   
   

6. Secondary Metabolites

   • Plant Chemical Defenses, University of Kentucky
   • Canadian Poisonous Plants Information System
   • Poisonous plants information by US Army
   • Poisonous plants information, College of Pharmacy, Arizona State University
   • USDA ARS - Poisonous Plants database
   • Phytochemistry Tutorials
   • Interactive database for herbal medicine
   • Herbal plant list at King's American Dispensatory
   • Cyberbotanica - Plants and Cancer Treatments, from Botany, University of Texas
   
   
   

7. Photosynthesis

   • Photosynthesis - From an on-line book by M.J. Farabee
   • What is Photosynthesis? Arizona State University
   • The Photosynthetic Process - a hypertext by J. Whitmarsh & Govindjee
   • Photosystem I : X-ray Structure Analysis
   • Photosynthesis Chapter out of MIT Biology Hypertextbook
   • Virtual Photosynthesis Experiments, Arizona State University
     
     
   • Plant Moleculaer Genetics, North Dakota State University
   
   
   

8. Algae, Viruses & Fungi

   • Lichens Information System
   • Teaching Algae
   • Marine Botany, Stanford
   • Description of Plant Viruses, IACR-Rothamsted
   • Plant Viruses on-line, The University of Idaho
   • Glossary of terms in phytopathology, Cornell
   • Mycorrhizal Symbioses text, University of Florida
   • Mycorrhiza database, CSIRO
   
   
   

9. Plant Genetics

   • Transgenic Crops, Colorado State University
   • Experiments in Plant Hybridization (1865) by Gregor Mendel
   • Glossary of Genetic Terms
     
     

10. Image collections

    • Photomicrographs of Phytoplankton at Clemson
    • The ultrastructure website
    • Botanical Image Library, University of Wisconsin
    • BotIT, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    • Botanical Image Database, University of Basel
    • Online collection of educational images for instructional use, Botanical Society of America
    • Plant Biology Images, Eastern Oregon University
    • Botany Image Collection, California State University Stanislaus
    • Plant Image Gallery, The Noble Foundation
    • Images of Grasses, Texas A&M University
    • TROPICOS Plant image index, Missouri Botanical Garden
    • Flora of China Illustrations
    • Pollen Grains
    • Gardening plants
      
      
    • Internet accessible herbaria, Tel Aviv
    • Internet accessible herbaria, North Carolina
      
      

11. Vegetation Maps

    • Links to On-Line Vegatation Maps around the world
    • Vegetation Mapping Program, The US Geological Servics & National Parks Service
    • Vegetation and Temperature Condition Index Maps, NOAA
    • Circumpolar vegetation maps
      
      

12. Software & Multimedia

    • All about optical microscopy
    • Plant Structure CD ROM
    • Phtotsynthesis Assistant Program
    • Plants-In-Motion, Indiana University, Department of Biology, movies in Quicktime format
    • Seed germination & Computer imaging, Inst. Plant Genetics, Bari, Italy
      
      

13. Books

    • Companion for Taiz & Zeiger "Plant Physiology", Third Edition 2002
    • Companion for Raven, Evert, Eichhorn, "Biology of Plants"

Last updated December 23rd 2004