Internet Directory for Botany - University Departments, Other Institutes

University departments of biology or botany, miscellaneous other institutes or projects - sorted geographically. Departments of plant pathology are listed in a separate file, as well as botanical museums, herbaria and natural history museums (however, some largest herbaria are listed also below on this page). For more comprehensive lists of university departments in biological sciences, see Adam Fagen's WWW Virtual Library - U.S. Biology Departments and Institutes and WWW Virtual Library - Biology Departments and Institutes outside USA.

Africa - Asia - Australia & New Zealand - Europe - Latin America - N America (Canada /// USA)

Europe

Armenia

National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.

Austria

CEDAR, Central European Environmental Data Request Facility, from Vienna, Austria. In 1991, International Society for Environmental Protection was selected by the Austrian Ministry for Environment to administer CEDAR, the Central European Environmental Data Request Facility. CEDAR, in cooperation with the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) in Budapest, Hungary, provides computing and Internetwork facilities to support international data exchange with the Central and Eastern European environmental community.
Institut für Angewandte Botanik und Pflanzenphysiologie, Technische Mikroskopie und organischer Rohstoffe, Holzchemie der Technisch-naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät der Technischen Universität Wien, Österreich. - Institute for applied botany, plant physiology, wood chemistry, Vienna, Austria.
Institute of Botany, University Innsbruck, Austria.
Universität für Bodenkultur in Wien, Botanik, Austria.
University of Salzburg, Institute of Botany, Austria.
University of Vienna, Institute of Botany, Department for Comparative and Ecological Phytochemisty, Austria.

Bulgaria

Institute of Botany, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Croatia

Czech Republic

Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, Czech Republic.

Denmark

Estonia

University of Tartu, Faculty of Biology and Geography, Estonia.

Finland

Agronet Services, Agricultural Research Centre of Finland. Agricultural Research Centre, founded in 1898, is a state research institute functioning under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. Agricultural Research Centre provides research and development services that promote the competitiveness of the Finnish food industry, the vitality of rural areas and care for the environment.
European Forest Institute, Joensuu, Finland. The European Forest Institute - EFI - is an independent and non-governmental research body, conducting problem-oriented and multi-disciplinary forest research at the European level in order to serve the needs of policy-making and decision-making bodies in Europe.
Finnish Forest Research Institute (METLA), Finland.
Lusto - The Finnish Forest Museum, Punkaharju, Finland.
University of Helsinki: Department of Biosciences, FInland (gopher; in Finnish).
University of Helsinki: Department of Ecology and Systematics, Finland (gopher; in Finnish).
University of Jyväskylä: Department of Biology, Finland (gopher, in Finnish).
University of Jyväskylä, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, Finland. Bilingual: Finnish/English.
University of Oulu, Department of Biology, Finland (gopher, in Finnish).
University of Turku, Department of Biology, Finland (in Finnish).

France

SRA INRA-CIRAD San Ghjulianu, Station de Recherches Agronomiques de Corse, France.

Germany

Biocenter Frankfurt, Frankfurt University, Germany.
Biometrie und Populationsgenetik, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany.
Botanisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, gopher, Germany.
Botanisches Institut der Universität Hohenheim, Germany.
Department of Botany, The Geisenheim Research Institute, Germany.
Fachbereich Biologie/Botanik der Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany.
Fachhochschule Osnabrück, Fachbereich Gartenbau, Germany
Institut für Allgemeine Botanik und Botanischer Garten der Universität Hamburg, Germany.
Institute of Geobotany and Botanical Garden, University of Halle, Germany.
Institut für Botanik, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany.
Institut für Botanik der Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.
Institut für Systematik und Didaktik der Biologie, Universität Potsdam, Germany.
Institute of Applied Botany, University of Hamburg, Germany.
Institute of Systematic Botany and Botanic Garden, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.
Institut für Systematische Botanik der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
Julius-von-Sachs-Institut für Biowissenschaften mit Botanischem Garten Würzburg, Germany.
Lehrstuhl Spezielle Botanik und Mykologie, Universität Tübingen, Germany.
München, Lehrstuhl für Botanik der Technischen Universität, Germany.
University of Bayreuth , Department of Plant Ecology (Lehrstuhl Pflanzenökologie der Universität Bayreuth), Germany.
University of Cologne (Köln), Department of Botany, Germany.
University of Freiburg, Faculty for Biology, Germany, has a database on the ecological characteristics of the Central European vascular plants, Zeigerwerte der Gefäßpflanzen Mitteleuropas, so far only in German.
Universität Regensburg, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III, Biologie und Vorklinische Medizin, Botanik, Germany.
University of Saarland, Institute of Biogeography, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Universität Ulm, Abteilung Spezielle Botanik, Germany.

Greece

Institute of Marine Biology of Crete, Greece.

Ireland

University College, Dublin, Department of Botany, Ireland
Trinity College Dublin, Department of Botany, Ireland.
Department of Botany, University College, Galway, Ireland.

Italy

Centro Studi Botanici 'Lombardia', Italy.
University of Ferrara, Department of Biology, Section of Botany, Italy.
University of Parma, Institute of Ecology, Italy.

Latvia

University of Latvia, Faculty of Biology.

the Netherlands

The Mushroom Experimental Station, Horst, the Netherlands. Agriculture, applied research, mushrooms, edible fungi, mycology, applied mycology, compost, agaricus.
Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands.

Norway

University of Tromsø, Department of Plant Ecology (Avdeling for økologisk botanikk), Norway - in Norwegian
University of Tromsø, Department of Plant Ecology, Institute of Biology and Geology, Norway. - in English
University of Bergen, Botanical Institute, Norway, an address list.

Poland

The Institute of Botany, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
Marine Ecology Department, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland.
University of Wroclaw, Institute of Botany, Poland.
Warshaw University, Institute of Botany, Poland.

Portugal

Department of Botany and Biologic Engineering, Instituto Superior de Agronomia - Departamento de Botânica e Engenharia Biológica (Department of Botany and Biological Engineering), Portugal. - Secção de Fitoecologia e Herbologia - DBEB.
Universidade dos Açores, Biology Department, Portugal.

Russia

The N.I.Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry (VIR), St. Petersburg, Russia. The N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Industry (VIR) originated and developed from the Bureau of Applied Botany organized in 1894. In 1992 this Institute received its current name, and since 1967 has been bearing the name of Academician N.I. Vavilov, a brilliant scientist and the talented director of the Institute from 1921 till 1940. This Institute is the only research institution in Russia fully involved in plant genetic resources activities. It houses one of the world's largest collections (about 350,000 accessions) of plant germplasm representing various agricultural crops and their wild relatives.
Russian Academy of Sciences, Department of General Biology (DGB), Moscow, Russia.

Slovenia

Botanica Slovenica. Pages dealing with botany in Slovenia.

Spain

Unitat Docent de Botànica, Departament de Biologia Vegetal de la Universitat de València, Spain.

Sweden

Göteborg University, Department of Marine Botany, Gothenburg, Sweden. Bilingual: English/Swedish.
Göteborg University, Department of Systematic Botany & Herbarium, Sweden.
Institutionen för systematisk botanik, Lunds Universitet, Sweden.
Lund University, Plant Cell Biology, Sweden.
Stockholm University, Department of Systems Ecology, Sweden.
University of Stockholm, Department of Botany, Sweden.
Ekologisk botanik, Umeå Universitet (address list) and overview of the institute, Sweden.
Uppsala University, Department of Ecological Botany (Växtbio's Home Page), Sweden.

Switzerland

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften, Zürich, Switzerland.
Geobotanical Institute ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
Institute of Systematic Botany and Botanical Garden of the University of Zürich, Switzerland.
University of Basel, Botanical Institute, Department of Plant Physiology, Switzerland

UK

British Museum of Natural History (BM), London, UK. This server is being developed to provide information on the Museum's exhibitions and public programmes and to provide access to information about the Museum's work and its collections.
Centre for Arid Zone Studies, University of Wales, Bangor, UK. The Centre for Arid Zone Studies, has a range of expertise in the problems of Arid, Semi-Arid and Seasonally Arid regions unique among the Universities of the United Kingdom. The knowledge and experience accumulated over the years by its staff were coordinated into a formal interdisciplinary organisation, CAZS, in 1984. The Centre was established primarily to promote sustainable agricultural and forestry development in Arid and Semi-Arid lands.
Cornish Biological Records Unit, University of Exeter, UK. The CBRU is the Biological Records Centre for Cornwall. It aims to collect records of all land, freshwater and marine plants and animals that live or have lived in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. It also aims to provide an information resource for research, education, survey work and environmental monitoring.The archive contains over a million records of some 22,000 species.
Edinburgh Centre for Tropical Forests, ECTF, UK. The Edinburgh Centre for Tropical Forests represents a unique concentration of complementary expertise in tropical forests as well as an extensive breadth of experience in subtropical and temperate forests. Our 180 professional staff have undertaken consultancies and research in over 70 developing countries.
The Herbarium of the Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge University, UK.
Institute of Arable Crops Research (IACR), UK. The Institute of Arable Crops Research comprises Rothamsted, Long Ashton Research Station, and Broom's Barn.
Institute of Arable Crops Research, UK.
Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK.
Kew, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Richmond, UK.
- Centre for Economic Botany, CEB in the The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK.
Lancaster University, Unit of Vegetation Science, UK. Information about the British Plant Communities project and other projects of the unit.
Long Ashton Research Station (LARS), UK. IACR - Long Ashton Research Station is one of the three sites forming the Institute of Arable Crops Research. The Research Station, sited a few miles to the west of Bristol, is also the Department of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Bristol.
Natural Environment Research Council, UK.
National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), Cambridge, UK.
NERC Centre for Population Biology, an interdisciplinary research centre hosted by Imperial College, London, UK.
Oxford Forestry Institute, UK. This server is the host for the WWW pages for the Department of Plant Sciences, the Oxford Forestry Institute, the International Foundation for Science and The Centre for Research in Sustainable Systems of Agricultural Production (CIPAV). The aim is to provide wider access to occasional papers, research reports and databases currently published by the Oxford Forestry Institute and the Department of Plant Sciences. - Weeds of the World Project and World Weeds Database. The World Weeds Database is based on the information contained in the book "A Geographical Atlas of World Weeds" by Leroy Holm, Juan V. Pancho, James P. Herberger and Donald L. Plucknett, which was published in 1979. The World Weeds Database displays information of over 2400 weed species around the world according of its rank of importance.
Oxford Plant Systematics, UK.
PHYTOS - Plant Science Education Network, from Nottingham University, UK.
School of Plant Sciences, University of Reading, UK, including the Herbarium News Index.
Scottish Agricultural College (SAC), UK.
Taxonomy and Systematics at Glasgow, UK. This site provides an overview of taxonomy at the University of Glasgow, and associated institutions that are linked to Glasgow as part of the NERC Taxonomy Initiative.

Ukraine

Kiev University, Faculty of Biology, Ukraine.

N America (Canada & USA)

Canada

Biology Department of the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Canada
Brandon University, Department of Botany, Manitoba, Canada.
Canadian Biological Server/Pages by Shunguo Liu, University of Regina, Canada - a detailed list of the Canadian sites.
Canadian Museum of Nature, Centre for Biodiversity, Canada.
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Lakehead University, Plant Cell Biology, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
Laval University, Department of Agriculture, Canada.
McGill University, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Plant Science Department, Montreal, Canada.
National Research Council / Plant Biotechnology Institute, Canada.
Plant Evolution and Development at the Department of Biology, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada.
Simon Fraser University, Department of Biological Sciences, Barnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
University of British Columbia, Department of Botany, Canada.
University of Dalhousie Biology Home Page, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
University of Guelph, Botany Department, Canada. - Cliff Ecology Research Group, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada - a group of ecologists all deeply devoted to studying cliffs.
University of Lethbridge, Department of Biological Sciences, Alberta, Canada.
University of Manitoba, Department of Botany, Winnipeg, Canada.
University of Regina, Biology Department, Saskatchewan, Canada.
University of Saskatchewan, Crop Science and Plant Ecology, Canada.
University of Toronto Botany Server, Canada

USA

Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, and its Natural History Museum. Founded in 1812, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia is the oldest scientific research and education institution in the Western Hemisphere.
American Institute of Biological Sciences, AIBS, gopher, USA.
Arizona State University, Department of Botany, USA.
Auburn University Horticulture Department, Alabama, USA.
Austin, University of Texas, Plant Resources Center, USA. The Home Page of The University of Texas at Austin Plant Resources Center (LL, TEX). The University of Texas Herbaria houses a collection of over 1.1 million specimens with emphasis on plants from Texas, the southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America.
BBCWS, Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server, Cornell, USA. Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server - Botany page provides links to botanical WWW servers.
Biological Sciences, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, USA.
The Botanical Research Institute of Texas, USA.
Brigham Young University, Department of Botany and Range Science, located in Provo, Utah, USA.
Bruns Lab, University of California at Berkeley, USA. The evolution and ecology of basidiomycetes is the central focus of the research program in the Bruns Lab.
California Academy of Sciences WWW Server, California Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, USA.
California State University Stanislaus - Botany 3700, California State University Biological Sciences WWW Server; CSUBioweb Links, USA.
Center for Aquatic Plants, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, USA. The Center has an Aquatic Plant Database, Photographs of Aquatic Plants (also on CD), Videotape Programs, publishes Aquaphyte newsletter, line drawings of aquatic plants, posters, ID-Cards for field identification, general information on aquatic plants, and more.
The Center for Plant Biotechnology Research, Tuskegee University. The primary mission of this Center is to employ innovative molecular and cellular genetic tools in the improvement of select crops such as sweetpotato, peanut, cowpea and muskmelon, and to provide training in plant biotechnology to ethnically underrepresented minority students and scientists from developing countries.
Chapman Lab in the Department of Plant Biology, Louisiana State University, USA - Phycology, Bryology, Systematics & Evolutionary Biology.
Clemson University, Department of Horticulture, South Carolina, USA.
The CoLib Project, from Texas A&M University, USA. The CoLib Project is a multi-institutional, inter- and intra-disciplinary effort aimed at establishing a large-scale, distributed, botanical digital library and research facility.
College of Natural Science, Michigan State University, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, USA.
Cornell University, Division of Biological Sciences, Plant Biology, USA.
Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, USA.
Department of Biology, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA.
Department of Plant Biology, University of California at Berkeley, USA.
Duke University, Department of Botany, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Illinois State Academy of Science, Division of Botany, USA.
Illinois State Museum, Springfield, USA, and its Department of Botany.
Institute of Ecosystem Studies (IES), New York, USA.
International Center for Tropical Ecology at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA.
Iowa State University, Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology, Ames, USA.
Kent State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Ohio, USA.
The Lewis Lab in the Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, USA. The research program of the laboratory involves the theory of phylogenetics, population genetics, and molecular systematics of plants. The lab offers a program - GDA: Software for the Analysis of Discrete Genetic Data - for analyzing discrete genetic data.
L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University, New York State, USA.
Louisiana State University, Department of Plant Biology, USA.
The Marine Botany Department of The Aquaculture Division at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution Inc, USA.
Miami University, Department of Botany. The Department of Botany is housed in the Biological Sciences Building on the campus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA.
Missouri Botanical Garden, WWW; MO Gopher, St. Louis, USA-
The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, USA. The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis was established in 1995 by the National Science Foundation, with additional support from the State of California and UCSB. Its focus is collaborative, basic and applied research on the structure and dynamics of ecological systems. NCEAS also organizes and synthesizes ecological information to facilitate its use by researchers, policy-makers and resource managers addressing important environmental issues.
National Institute of Health (NIH) GenoBase Site World Wide Web Server Home Page, USA. Through a system of tables and various query capabilities, this server provides access to an NIH copy of GenoBase, which is a Prolog-based, object-oriented molecular biology database.
National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS), U.S Department of Agriculture, USA.
National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA (U.S.D.A., Natural Resources Conservation Service Ecological Sciences Division). NPDC maintain the PLANTS Database, which contains a checklist of the vascular and nonvascular plants of the U.S.A with the assistance of the botanical community. PLANTS is utilized by U.S. federal and state agencies as a standard for information input and exchange. The database will provide basic mission critical plant information to NRCS, its partners and customers, researchers, and the public. Plant information needs range from lists of plant names, threatened and endangered species, noxious weeds, and wetland indicator status to complex environment dependent data about crop yields, ecological site characterization, and native plant communities.
NSF Center of Plant Developmental Biology, University of California at Berkeley, USA. Web site for the multi-user facility at UC Berkeley. The main emphasis is plant cell biology research for students and faculty.
National Wildflower Research Center, Austin, Texas, USA.
NewCrop, Indiana Center for New Crops & Plant Products at the Department of Horticulture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
North Carolina State University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Department of Botany, USA.
Northern Illinois University - Biological Sciences, DeKalb, USA.
The Northern Prairie Science Center. Northern Prairie Science Center (NPSC), located near Jamestown, North Dakota, USA, is one of many science centers operated by the National Biological Service, a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior. - NPSC Biological Resources Page.
The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center. The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) is the agricultural research arm of the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences of The Ohio State University, USA.
Ohio University, Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Athens, USA.
Ohio State University, Department of Plant Biology, Columbus, USA.
Oklahoma State University, Department of Botany, Stillwater, USA (gopher).
Oregon State University: Botany and Plant Pathology, Corvallis, USA.
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Photosynthesis Center, Arizona State University, USA.
Plant Resources Information Laboratory (Q'TAXA). An interactive system for education and information on the diversity of life on earth. Being developing at the Plant Resources Information Laboratory, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, USA.
Plant Science Department, South Dakota State University, USA, offers teaching, research, and extension services in crops, soils, water, entomology, plant pathology, and weed science.
Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton (CCMP), McKown Point, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, USA. CCMP is the living stock culture collection of marine phytoplankton for the USA.
Purdue University, Department of Botany and Pathology, West Lafayette Indiana, USA.
Smithsonian Institution WWW Home Page, SI Natural History Web, USA.The Smithsonian Natural History Web is an internet resource compiled and maintained by the staff of the National Museum of Natural History. Here you will find documents and data about Museum research and the national collections, which comprise more than 120 million scientific specimens and cultural artifacts from around the world. You will also find information about programs and projects at the Museum or produced in cooperation with other organizations, supporting the Museum's mission of understanding the natural world and our place in it.). SI Gopher, SI, Dept. of Botany (WWW), a brief overview of US National herbarium.
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Department of Plant Biology, USA.
Southwest School of Botanical Medicine/Michael Moore Home Page, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. This site (with some material available elsewhere, such as SUNSite at UNC) contains about 400 JPEGs of medicinal plants of (mostly) Western North America, with a few field trip images tossed in. Also text and Acrobat versions of M. Moore's botanical medicine manuals, and a starter set of some classic eclectic, naturopathic and ethnobotanical texts from the late 19th and early 20th century.
Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, Agriculture Research Service, USDA, Beltsville, Maryland, USA. - Vascular Plants Database - Fungal Culture Collection Database.
Texas Aggie Horticulture, Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University, USA.
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, USA. The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station conducts research programs that support the state's agricultural and natural resource industries and ultimately Texas consumers. Research resources are invested in scientific investigations that maintain and enhance our state's natural resources, ensure the safety and affordability of our food supply, and contribute to the state's economic vitality.
Texas A&M University (TAMU), Plant Taxonomy; TAMU Plant Diversity Information Center, USA.
Texas Subtropical Agricultural Center, Weslaco, TX, USA.
University of California; Davis - Plant Biology, USA.
University of California, Irvine - Conservation Biology Web Site, USA.
University of California at Berkeley, Department of Plant Biology, USA.
University of California at Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology, California, USA.
University of California Santa Barbara Biogeography Laboratory, USA. The Biogeography Laboratory in the Geography Department at UC Santa Barbara the conducts basic and applied research on the ecology, distribution, and conservation status of species and ecosystems.
University of California, Santa Barbara - Biological Sciences, USA.
University of Delaware, College of Agricultural Sciences, USA.
University of Georgia, Botany Department, Athens, USA.
University of Hawaii, Department of Botany, Manoa, USA.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Agriculture, Department of Horticulture, USA.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Plant Biology, USA. University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign, Plant Biology 100.
University of Kansas, Department of Botany, USA.
University of Kentucky, Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, Lexington, USA.
University of Maryland at College Park, College of Life Sciences, USA.
University of Massachusetts: Biological Sciences, Amherst, USA.
University of Michigan, Department of Biology, Ann Arbor, USA.
University of Minnesota, Department of Agronomy & Plant Genetics, St. Paul, USA.
University of Minnesota, Department of Horticultural Science, St. Paul, MN, USA.
University of Minnesota, Plant Tissue Culture Research, USA.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Institute of Agriculture & Natural Resources (IANR), USA.
University of Nebraska State Museum (UNSM), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.
University of Oklahoma - Botany and Microbiology , USA.
University of Rhode Island, Department of Plant Sciences, USA.
University of South Florida - Institute for Systematic Botany and Herbarium, Tampa, FL, USA. The USF Herbarium was established as a research and teaching collection in 1958, two years after the founding of the University of South Florida.
University of Tennessee, Division of Biology, Knoxville, USA.
University of Texas at Austin, Department of Botany, USA. Contains numerous resources including a Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Directory; a Tour of the Department; info for prospective grad students and more.
University of Texas Herbaria (LL, TEX) Type Register. From gopher at Cornell, USA.
University of Texas at El Paso Centennial Museum's Laboratory for Environmental Biology, USA-
University of Toledo, Department of Biology, Ohio, USA.
University of Vermont, Department of Botany and Agricultural Biochemistry -Information Center, USA.
University of Wisconsin, Botany Gopher, Madison, USA.
University of Wisconsin, Department of Botany, Madison, USA.
University of Wyoming, College of Agriculture, Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences (PSIS)
U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research Network, USA. A program on long-term ecological phenomena in the United States.
US-OBI: The United States Organization for Biodiversity Information, USA.
Utah State University, Department of Biology, Logan, Utah, USA.
Utah State University, Department of Plants, Soils and Biometeorology, USA.
Washington University, Department of Biology, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
W.M. Keck Genter for Genome Informatics, Institute of Biosciences and Technology (IBT), Texas A and M University (TAMU), Houston, USA.
Yale University, Department of Biology, New Haven, Connecticutt, USA.
Yale Ecological Gopher, New Haven, Connecticutt, USA.
The Yanofsky Lab, in San Diego, California, USA, is primarily a molecular genetics laboratory, attempting to understand the molecular basis of flower development, using Arabidopsis thaliana.

Latin America

Base de Dados Tropical (BDT), Brazil. Base de Dados Tropical (Tropical Data Base) is a department within the Fundacao Tropical de Pesquisas e Tecnologia "Andre' Tosello", a Brazilian not-for-profit, private foundation. This bioinformatics facility provides access to databases as well to many other Internet sources.
Biodiversity in Costa Rica, INBio's (Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad) WWW server. Manual of the Plants of Costa Rica (gopher search at the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA) /// Manual de la Flora de Costa Rica from INBio - a list of all the identified specimens held at INBio's Herbarium (INB), taxonomically sorted.
CENARGEN, National Center for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brazil.
CONABIO's Home Page, Mexico. CONABIO, Comisíon nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad (National commission for the knowledge and use of biodiversity).
Instituto de Ecología, A.C, Veracruz, Mexico (in Spanish and English) - an institute studying ecology, botany, entomology, wood and forests, and biotechnology. It has lists of books like Biodiversidad de América Latina - and journals (also for sale): Acta Botánica Mexicana and Bioclimatologia.
Institute of Ecological Research of Chiloe (IIECH), Chile - international initiative to study and defend the native flora of the island of Chiloe. It has a visitors centre near Ancud.
São Paulo State University at São José do Rio Preto, Department of Botany, Brazil.
University of Sao Paulo, Department of Botany, Brazil

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