Bamboos are economically important plants with innumerable uses and many environmental benefits. Improving the availability of information on bamboos is an important step towards the development of sustainable utilization and conservation for this valuable renewable resource, not only in its natural habitats, but also wherever it is cultivated throughout the world. This site was launched in August 2006, primarily as a means to bring together the growing variety of dispersed online tools and information relating to bamboo identification and naming. It also provided an opportunity to disseminate personal publications produced over a 25 year career as a bamboo specialist, working in Asia and in western botanical gardens. Most of these are accessible here as PDF documents or online links. This anniversary also coincides with the publication of the English-language Flora of China bamboo account, a project in which approximately one third of the world’s bamboos are described, arranged more natural system of genera backed up by results of research into their molecular phylogeny. The emphasis of this site is on woody bamboos of Asian origin, especially those from temperate areas, and their cultivation in Europe & the USA. The initial intention was to write a book, but a website seemed a much more flexible, useful and powerful alternative, which could adapt and develop, and link directly to other developing online information. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Manual project had as its original goal publication of a single volume on grasses similar in concept and format to Hitchcock's Manual of Grasses of the United States. In 1999, it combined with the Flora of North America project and agreed to give priority to publishing the two grass volumes needed by that project over preparation of the single volume Manual. The first of the two FNA grass volumes, FNA 25.was published in 2003. The second, FNA 24, will be published early in 2007. The two volumes cover North America north of Mexico. In addition to native species and established introductions, they include many cultivated species, some introductions that failed to become established, and a few weedy species not known from the region but identified by the U.S.D.A. as potential threats to U.S. agriculture. The content of the two FNA volumes is now being reduced to a single volumes that will include descriptions for the tribes and genera plus all the keys, illustrations, and maps in the two FNA volumes. This volume, it is hoped, will prove as useful to today's taxonomists as the Manual of Grasses of the United States used to be. ... [Information of the supplier]
GrassWorld is an online information system of the world’s grasses derived from a DELTA dataset. The first version has descriptions to most species in English, German and Spanish and non-morphological information of all genera. A French version will be added next. GrassWorld incorporates all the morphological data of Kew’s GrassBase to which ancillary characters (bibliographic, geographic, references to illustrations, name derivation, cytology, classification, naturalised status) have been added. There are plans to generate GrassBase type generic descriptions using DELTA gesumm. Within the Scratchpad environment there are useful links to Google Scholar, GBIF world maps, NCBI, Wikipedia and image sites. Users are encouraged to notify us of missing or wrong information. Interactive INTKEY sets will be placed on the DELTA website once the information has reached a level of consensus. ... [Information of the supplier]
This web site (in French language) provides identification keys for members of the family Poaceae (Gramineae) occurring in Metropolitan France, accompanied by introductions, information on distributions and photographs for many grass species. [Editorial staff vifabio]
This package is generated from a DELTA database (Dallwitz 1980; Dallwitz, Paine, and Zurcher 1993). It comprises an interactive identification and information retrieval system using the program Intkey (running under MS-Windows), descriptions, illustrations, references, and other subsidiary material. The database contains detailed morphological, anatomical and physiological descriptions of over 800 grass genera (Watson and Dallwitz 1981; Watson, Dallwitz, and Johnston 1986; Watson 1987). The descriptive terminology employed here is mostly in line with normal agrostological usage, as set out in modern textbooks, monographs and regional floras (e.g. Hubbard 1968, Hitchcock and Chase 1950, Gould 1968, Jacques-Félix 1962, Bor 1960, Clayton and Renvoize 1986, Chapman and Peat 1992, etc.; and for anatomy, Metcalfe 1960, Clifford and Watson 1976, Ellis 1976 and 1979, and Watson and Dallwitz 1988). Detailed, written Character Notes have been entered for too few of the characters, but the copious character illustrations now provided should facilitate differentiating between character states. ... [Information of the supplier]
Panzea is the bioinformatics arm of a project investigating the Genetic Architecture of Maize and Teosinte (NSF 0820619). The project is funded by the National Science Foundation. The project is describing the genetic architecture of complex traits in maize and teosinte. We will identify genes that control domestication traits and three key agronomic traits: flowering time, plant height, and kernel quality. We will characterize allelic series at these genes, examine their epistatic and environmental interactions, and take a step toward the ultimate goal of predicting phenotype from genotype. The genetic, germplasm, and bioinformatic resources created by this project will help maize researchers worldwide to discover the genetic basis of any trait of interest. The Panzea website provides access to the project database and bioinformatics module. The Panzea Database contains the genotypic and phenotypic data and genetic marker information produced by the project. The Panzea Database design is based on the Genomic Diversity and Phenotype Data Model (GDPDM). The database schema and an Excel file with table and field descriptions are available below. ... [Information of the supplier]
