SEE ALSO: Plant Biology and Biotechnology e-Journals
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Plant Identifier: fPl@ntNet is a tool to help to identify plants with pictures. It is organized in different thematic and geographical floras.
Gramene Project: Gramene is a curated, open-source, integrated data resource for comparative functional genomics in crops and model plant species.
Mycology Collections Data Portal (MyCoPortal): web-based data access technologies to aid taxonomists, field biologists, ecologists, educators, and citizen scientists in the study of fungal diversity.
USDA Plants Database: provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the United States and its territories
World Flora Online: An Online Flora of all known plants. “1,613,577 names, 377,701 accepted species, 1,600,198 names with associated content (56,356 images, 633,987 descriptions, 1,937,160 distributions and 8,981,917 references).”
Plant.id: a free plant identification service based on machine learning. Take a photo, upload it, and instantly get a name and information about your plant.
PlantSearch: includes taxon-level data from over 1,100 collections of living/viable plants, seeds, pollen, and tissues, located around the world.
International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) (Bioversity International, formerly the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute)
National Center for Biotechnological Information (NCBI, National Library of Medicine): advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.
European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL-EBI: provides freely available data and bioinformatics services to the scientific community.
GenBank: NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences.
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM): An NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) database that catalogs all the known diseases with a genetic component, linking them to the relevant genes in the human genome, important literature and links to related government and non-profit organizations.
Biodiversity Heritage Library: Biodiversity Heritage Library Project is a cooperative endeavor by ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions to digitize biodiversity literature.
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL): Global access to knowledge about life on Earth.
Biotechnology Society of Nigeria (BSN)
