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Agricola  (Inetkey)
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) serves as the catalogue and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library, as well as a primary public source for world-wide access to agricultural information. The database covers materials in all formats and periods, including printed works from as far back as the 15th century.

American Society of Agronomy  (Inetkey)

British Crop Protection Council (Inetkey)
The BCPC is a UK charity whose objective is to promote and encourage the science and practice of crop protection for the benefit of all. The web site contains details of the BCPC’s publications, news and forthcoming events.

Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps (Inetkey)
Has links to vegetation/forest maps of Africa, Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville, Cote d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and the Indian Ocean. Compiled by Claire Englander of the Univ. of California-Berkeley, University & Jepson Herbaria/SMASCH Project, and Philip Hoehn from the Stanford University Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections.

European Society for Agronomy (Inetkey)

ProAgri (Inetkey)
ProAgri is committed to introduce technological developments in agriculture to the South African farmer. The web site contains news, a calendar of events, articles on research, agricultural surveys, crop production, etc.

The Schundler Company (Inetkey)
The Schundler Company is the oldest and largest producer of perlite and vermiculite on the east coast of the United States, and maintains the largest, most comprehensive site about perlite and vermiculite on the Internet. The company has developed an extensive file of brief, but useful Plant Guides on the many uses of perlite and vermiculite.

Scirus (Inetkey)
The Elsevier Science search engine containing scientific web pages.

Vegetable MD Online (Inetkey)
Vegetable MD Online provides access to fact sheets produced by Cornell University's Department of Plant Pathology. Diseases of vegetables and melons are listed by crop. There is a photo gallery of diseased  plants, news articles and disease alerts, a glossary of plant pathology terms, and links to vegetable IPM (integrated pest management) sites. See the Cornell Plant Disease Clinic for fact sheets on diseases of flowers, shrubs, and trees.

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