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Horticulture resource guides

Horticulture

Web gateways Electronic journals Organisational links Statistics
Nuts Fruit & fruit pests Gardens & arboreta Gene bases
Vegetables Olives Ornamental horticulture Post harvest

Horticulture gateways

Also check the listing on the general agriculture page.

Acta Horticulturae  Searchable contents of all published Acta Horticulturae volumes, abstracts provided. Fulltext available free to ISHS members, non-members are charged.
 

HortNet (NZ)

An information centre for New Zealand's plant-based industries. Includes a searchable database of publications
 
Internet Directory for Botany: an index to botanical information available on the Internet

Yahoo: Horticulture Links to sites covering botanical gardens, phytopathology, plants, Web directories, floriculture etc.

Electronic journals

All electronic journals are listed in the Library Catalogue

A listing of journals in the subject area Plant Sciences is available from our University of Adelaide Library E-Journals A-Z web page

Organisational links

Also check the listing on the general agriculture page.
 
American Society of Horticultural Science Home Page

Staff, membership, events, programs and working groups

Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plants
Links to state groups of the Society for Growing Australian Plants, and includes information on propagating Australian native plants, a useful photo gallery with distribution, conservation and growing notes, and the Australian Plants online journal

AustBioTech - Australia's Biotechnology Organisation
Useful site with links to biotechnology companies

Australian Biotechology Directory
The Biotechnology Directory is a comprehensive guide to biotechnology companies and organisations operating in Australia

Australian Citrus Growers Inc. Includes details of research, varieties factsheets and citrus trial reporting system

AusVeg (Australian Vegetable and Potato Growers Federation)

Betrock's hortworld.com (Betrock Information Systems)
Includes calendar of U.S. and international events, directories of organisations, societies, US hort. services plus extensive links to other horticultural and general sites. More suited to the U.S. horticultural industry

Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture (U. of Western Australia)

Greenhouse and Processing Crops Research Centre  (Harrow, Ontario CANADA )

Horticulture Australia Ltd (HAL)   Formed by the merger of the Australian Horticultural Corporation and the Horticultural Research & Development Corporation

HortResearch

New Zealand's largest horticultural and food research organisation

Institute of Food Research (U.K.) Serving as a clearinghouse for information across a broad spectrum of academic, agricultural, and industrial interests, with numerous lists of popular topics and terms, as well as drop-down menus of searchable subjects and fields. Includes a searchable database of their own publications, fulltext information sheets and newsletter. Research interests include food safety, diet and health, and food materials and ingredients

The International Association of Plant Biotechnology (IAPB)

International Society for Horticultural Science

International Society of Arboriculture

Plant Health Australia
A peak national coordinating body for plant health in Australia. They commission projects and work with members to coordinate the development of national policy and capability to enhance the ability of Australian agriculture to respond effectively to plant pests, weeds and diseases

University of Adelaide, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Discipline of Wine and Horticulture

University of California, Davis. Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center
Includes extensive links to fruit and nut crop information

University of Melbourne, Faculty of Land and Food Resources

University of New England, Armidale. Horticulture and Plant Biotechnology Group

Wageningen Agricultural University, Horticultural Production Chains group.


Statistics

Australian

Agricultural commodities, Australia / Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Statistics on crops, livestock and livestock products, land use and industry and size characteristics of farms.

see also
Historical selected agricultural commodities, by state (1861-present) / Australian Bureau of Statistics

Agricultural industries, financial statistics, Australia. Preliminary estimates Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Agriculture, Australia / Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Statistics on crops, livestock and livestock products and characteristics of farms. Also included are detailed statistics on the financial performance of agricultural industries, the value of agricultural commodities produced (VACP) and summary trade data.

AgStats (Australian Bureau of Statistics database)
ABS agriculture commodity production statistics from the agricultural census. The Waite Library has the database available for searching from 2002 back to the 1987/88 census, covering South Australia in detail and other Australian state totals. Value of agricultural commodity production figures are available for searching from 1993/94-2002.
The Roseworthy Campus Library holds 1996/7-2002
Only available for use at Waite or Roseworthy libraries.

Australian agriculture assessment 2001 / National Land & Water Resources Audit
Statistics on water, climate, soils, grains, cotton, sugar, irrigated agriculture, horticulture
           Roseworthy Books 630.994 N2773a
            Waite Books 630.994 N2773a
            Barr Smith Main collection 630.994 N2773a

Australian commodities: forecasts and issues (quarterly) / Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics
            Roseworthy Journals 338.1 Q1.4
           Waite Journals  338.105 A9381
            Barr Smith Main collection  382.405 A938
           From 1994 available online (members of the University of Adelaide community)
           From 2000 available online (unrestricted access)

Australian commodity statistics (annual) / Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics
           Roseworthy Journals  338.10994 C734.2
             Waite Journals  338.1099405 C7341.2
             Barr Smith Main Collection   338.1099405 C734.2
            From 2000 available online (unrestricted access)

The Australian horticulture statistics handbook
Sydney, N.S.W. : Horticulture Australia, 2004-

Historical selected agricultural commodities, by state (1861-present) / Australian Bureau of Statistics
Contains historical agricultural production details. The variables include the area and production of wheat, oats, barley, maize and potatoes, the number of sheep, cattle, pigs and horses, and the tonnes of wool produced. This time series information is available for New South Wales,
Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Australia.

Horticulture and fruit growing statistics / Australian Bureau of Statistics
Links to all the statistics produced by the ABS on horticulture and fruit growing.

Value of principal agricultural commodities produced, Australia : Preliminary / Australian Bureau of Statistics
        Roseworthy Journals 319.4 A937VF.2
        Waite Journals 31(94) A93va
        Barr Smith Main Collection 319.406 A256
        From 1993/94 available online

International

FAOStat Agriculture Data International production, consumption, trade, prices and resources statistics

FAO statistical yearbook

World Agricultural Production (USDA Foreign Agricultural Service)


Fruit & Fruit Pests

Australian Citrus Growers Inc. Includes Report Summaries and the Citrus Trial Reporting System which contains details of citrus trials underway in Australia

Australian New Crops (U. of Queensland) Includes New Crops newsletter, research project results and research-in-progress; includes online listing of useful plants of the world

Berryfruit - HortResearch (NZ)

Citrus - HortResearch (NZ)

Cornell Fruit Resources (Cornell University). Covers fruit trees, grapes, berries

Kiwifruit - HortResearch (NZ)

National Clonal Germplasm Repository (US)
US National Clonal Germplasm Repository - Corvallis. A searchable database for cultivars - taxonomic. References and lists - US National Crop Germplasm Committees

National Institute of Fruit Tree Science (Japan)  Lists research activities and results

NewCROP HomePage (Purdue University)
Features a search engine to search the new crops index, reference books and manuals, a directory of new crop experts (CropEXPERT), links to related Web sites

Pipfruit - HortResearch (NZ)

Stonefruit - HortResearch (NZ)

University of California, Davis. Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center

Includes extensive links to fruit and nut crop information
 

Gardens and Arboreta

American Public Gardens Association (formerly American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta)

Australian National Botanical Gardens

Botanique  Portal to gardens, arboreta and nature sites of North America

Gardens & Arboreta List of mainly U.S. gardens and arboreta produced by the Ohio State University's Department of Horticulture and Crop Science

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

TreeNet Based at the Waite Arboretum, University of Adelaide

Waite Arboretum, University of Adelaide

Yahoo: Arboretums
List of individual U.S. arboretum sites


Gene bases

For general databases, see the listing under General Agriculture.

BeanGenes: a Phaseolus/Vigna database.

Brassica Genome Gateway (BBSRC, U.K.)


Nuts

Australian Macadamias

Australian Nut Industry Council

University of Adelaide. Discipline of Wine & Horticulture. Australian Almond Breeding Programme

University of California, Davis. Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center

University of California, Davis. Department of Pomology.


Ornamental horticulture

Australian Plants Online
Online magazine of  the Society for Growing Australian Plants

Florigene Flowers
An Australian company billing itself as the world's first successful "Molecular Breeder" in the flower industry

Flowering plant gateway Four systems of flowering plant classification

Flowerweb
A Dutch site for companies and organisations involved in flowers and plants.  Includes a searchable database of over 10,000 images of the most sold flowers

 
Plant Tissue Culture Information Exchange

A repository of any type of information about in vitro culture of plants, and includes conferences notices, links to other Web sites on biotechnology, micropropagation etc.
 
University of Adelaide. Discipline of Wine & Horticulture. Breeding of Eucalypts for Cut Stem Production
Wildflowers and Native Plants Research Program Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Australia


Olives

Australian Olive Association Industry news and contacts and well as useful links to local and international Web sites
The Olive Centre An Australian website, containing information about the olive industry

Olives Australia Practical information for the Australian olive industry, including the Olive Magazine, fact sheets and details of olive associations in each state

Olive Oil from Spain Trade Commission of Spain. Includes history, production, varieties, regions.

Olives from Spain Trade Commission of Spain.

Olives South Australia Inc. Includes a brief history of olives in Australia
University of California, Davis. Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center maintains an excellent olive site, including very good links to other web-based olive resources

Post harvest

Agribusiness Online  Includes crop production and post harvest guides

Bureau of Postharvest Research & Extension (Phillipines)

Information Network on Post-Harvest Operations (FAO databank project)
 

Postharvest handling of horticultural crops (NC State University)

Includes information leaflets in pdf format.
 
Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center (UC Davis)

Includes fact sheets on fruits, vegetables and ornamentals
 
Sydney Postharvest Laboratory (Food Science Australia)

Includes an extensive horticultural storage and handling database, and links to other postharvest Web sites

Vegetables

Asian Vegetable Research & Development Centre (Taiwan)

AUSVEG Australian Vegetable and Potato Growers' Federation

BeanRefCollection of external links and references from the literature to different aspects of research on beans (Phaseolus and Vigna).

Commercial Vegetable Production Guides (Oregon State University)
Includes links to other Web resources, mainly U.S.

Cornell University Vegetable MD Online Cornell Plant Pathology Vegetable Disease Web Page. Includes easily searchable factsheets by crop, lists of disease-resistant varieties, a glossary of plant pathology terms and links to other vegetable sites

Greenhouse & Processing Crops Research Centre (Harrow, Ontario)  Details of research on greenhouse production of vegetables; includes lists of research publications

Sustainable Practices for Vegetable Production in the South (NC State University, U.S.)
Includes information on sustainable production techniques, integrated pest management, crop profiles and links to other resources



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