The discussion forum covers such topics as cloning and cancer research funding. This Web site is based on a handbook of the same title, first published by the USDA in 1976. It features data on pollination biology, flower structures, and related insect pollinators. Crop coverage is thorough, including most ornamental and edible crops, even on the minor level. The inclusion of many legume and clover crops is quite valuable, given their increasing role in sustainable agriculture.
Access is provided by organism, subject, and title, and includes a search engine.
This is the site for you if you come upon a journal abbreviation that you cannot decipher. This dictionary contains over 8300 terms which deal with biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology, and genetics. Included are also medically and biotechnologically relevant organisms such as bacteria, worms, fungi, and some plants relating to ecology, limnology, pharmacology, toxicology, and medicine. An online directory of biology societies, including acronyms. Each entry is given a URL stability ranking, and explanations for the rankings are a click away.