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 | Subject Librarian: Beth Petsan E-Mail: petsan@umn.edu This subject covers: the study of plant diseases and disorders and the effects of pests and pollution on plants. |
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Article Databases and Indexes
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AGRICOLA   Search here to find citations and abstracts for articles from over 600 periodicals, as well as USDA and state experiment station and extension publications, and selected books on agriculture, animal husbandry, animal and human nutrition, forestry, plant pathology, plant science, human ecology, agricultural economics, rural sociology.
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| CAB Abstracts Plus Full Text Select CAB Abstracts covers agriculture in its broadest sense, including crop production, forestry, environment, animal health and nutrition, veterinary science, agricultural engineering, biotechnology, soil and water, agricultural economics, recreation and tourism, rural sociology, and human nutrition and health. Indexes journal articles, monographs, conferences, and other primary literature.
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Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
| AGRIS - FAO (public version) Information for international agricultural research, from 1975 to the present.
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| BIOSIS Previews NO LONGER CURRENT. Due to budget pressures, we have canceled our subscription to BIOSIS Previews. Although you will continue to be able to access the database, no new articles will be added after January 2011. Covers the biological and medical sciences, including biochemistry, biophysics, biotechnology, botany, environment, microbiology, and zoology. Provides citations and abstracts to articles, conference papers, technical reports and chapters of books from over 5000 publications. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 10 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database This database provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 6000 sources including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. Incorporates Pollution Abstracts, Water Resources Abstracts, and other specialized databases.Areas of coverage include agricultural and environmental biotechnology, ecology, energy resources, environmental engineering, environmental impact statements (U.S.), pollution, toxicology & toxic emissions, and water resource issues.
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| Google Scholar Connect to Google Scholar through the Libraries' web site to gain off-campus access to all the articles and journals in full text in the Libraries. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. To connect to the full text, click "FindIt@U of M Twin Cities" in your Google Scholar search results. Learn more: Google Scholar FAQ
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PubMed  Primary source of journal article access for the health sciences - the campus version provides full text access to all MEDLINE e-journals subscribed to by the University of Minnesota TC Libraries.
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| PubMed - Public Version Primary source of journal citations for the health sciences - the public version provides only limited full text access to journal articles. Includes Medline and Pre-Medline (articles more recent than found in Medline).
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| Web of Science (ISI) Indexes over 11,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Titles of the print equivalent are: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Book Citation, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Coverage runs from 1975 to the present. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk(*).
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| Academic Search Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for over 4,600 scholarly (peer-reviewed) publications back to 1975. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LexisNexis Academic LexisNexis Academic is a full text databases for news, business, and legal research. It includes sources for researching accounting, environmental studies, health and medical care, government and politics, people, consumer information, and countries worldwide. Locate company information, including the Hoovers Company Profiles.
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Indexes, Other
| International Plant Names Index A database of the names
and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. Its goal is to
eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic
bibliographic information about plant names. The data in the IPNI comes from three sources: the Index Kewensis (IK), the Gray Card Index (GCI) and the Australian Plant
Names Index (APNI).The data are freely available. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Plant Information Online Includes current sources in North American nurseries for over 70,000 plants; over 200,000 citations to current plant science literature, listings for more than 1300 North American seed and nursery firms, and an evaluative review of 75 CD-ROMs and web sites of plant images. This resource is free and open to the public. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Catalogs and Bibliographies
Bibliographies
| APS Press Disease Compendiums A bibliography of the American Phytopathological Society (APS) Press Disease Compendiums available at the Plant Pathology library. Companion image CDs are included on this list. Limited titles may be available at other University of Minnesota libraries.
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Catalogs
| MNCAT: for finding journals, books, and more Libraries Catalog searches for books, e-books, e-journals, maps, music scores, films, sound recordings, government publications, archival materials etc, owned by or accessible via the University of Minnesota.
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| WorldCat This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education Covers all subjects. Provides bibliographic citations of books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, theses/dissertations, and machine-readable data files published worldwide. Provides holdings information for nearly 30,000 libraries. Producer/Publisher is OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 65 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Sources
Atlases & Maps
| CABI Distribution Maps of Plant Diseases Source for data on the worldwide distribution of plant diseases of economic or quarantine importance. Created in association with the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO), over 1000 Disease Maps can be browsed, searched, and used via this site.
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| CABI Distribution Maps of Plant Pests Source for data on the worldwide distribution of plant pests of economic or quarantine importance. Created in association with the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO), over 700 Pest Maps can be browsed, searched, and used via this site.
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Dissertations and Theses
| Digital Dissertations Dissertations and theses from over 1000 universities. Doctoral dissertations are indexed for almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities. Masters theses from selected schools only. Provides bibliographic citations for older titles. Abstracts are included for dissertations since 1980 and for masters theses since 1988. Some dissertations, beginning with 1997 publication dates, are available digitally. These include the University of Minnesota and other CIC member universities.
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General Reference Works
| The Plant List The Plant List is a working list of all known plant species. Version 1, released in December 2010, aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts).
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Guides
| CABI Descriptions of Fungi & Bacteria For use by plant pathologists and veterinary and medical mycologists. These provide integrated information to allow identification / confirmation of the identity of significant species, along with related information on pathology or other economic significance. The Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria were initiated in 1964, and more than 1600 sheets have been issued, each devoted to a single species.
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Internet Resources
Electronic Texts
| Springer E-Books Over 25,000 electronic books covering a wide range of disciplines. Publishers include:
Apress, Birkhauser, Copernicus Books, Humana, Physica-Verlag, Plenum US, Praxis, Springer, Springer-Verlag, Steinkopff, and TELOS.
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Gateways & Megasites
| Internet Resources for Plant Pathology List of websites for plant pathology, nematology, mycology, virology and forest pathology.
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| Plant Management Network A cooperative resource for the applied plant sciences. Offers an extensive searchable database comprised of thousands of web-based resource pages from the network's partner universities, companies, and associations. The network's peer-reviewed citable journals, Plant Health Progress, Crop Management, Forage and Grazinglands, and Applied Turfgrass Science provide credible current information in areas important to practitioners, policy makers, and the public.
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Multimedia Materials
Image Resources
| Image Collections A curated bibliography of quality image collections listed by subject. These resources include local collections, licensed content, and select open online collections of images.
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Primary Source Materials
Archival Materials
| Green Revolution Collections Online Access to the digitized files of original field notes, correspondence, photographs, and administrative records that are part of the University of Minnesota Archives, including: Norman E. Borlaug papers; John Gilber papers; Helen Hart papers; E.C. Stakman papers; Department of Plant Pathology and Physiology records; Cereal Rust Laboratory records.
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Societies, Agencies, and Organizations
Official Agency & Organization Websites
| AgNIC (Agriculture Network Information Center) AgNIC is a voluntary partnership between land grant institutions, libraries, departments within colleges and universities, states, extension programs, etc.,to provide selected, quality agricultural information. AgNIC provides information on animal science, animal products, farms and farming, food and nutrition, insects, forest science, plant diseases, rural and agricultural sociology, and a host of other topics.
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| American Phytopathological Society (APS) The American Phytopathological Society (APS) is a non-profit, professional, scientific organization dedicated to the study and control of plant diseases.
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| American Society for Microbiology (ASM) The ASM is the world's largest scientific society of individuals interested in the microbiological sciences. The mission of the Society is to advance the microbiological sciences as a vehicle for understanding life processes and to apply and communicate this knowledge for the improvement of health and environmental and economic well-being worldwide.
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| International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI) The IS-MPMI is comprised of members from more than 30 countries who research molecular aspects of microorganisms interacting with plants and the consequences of such interactions. Disciplines represented by IS-MPMI members include microbiology, nematology, plant pathology, plant breeding, and many more.
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| Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) The mission of the MDA is to enhance Minnesotans' quality of life by ensuring the integrity of the food supply, the health of the environment, and the strength of the state's agricultural economy.
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| Mycological Society of America (MSA) The MSA is a scientific society dedicated to advancing the science of mycology - the study of fungi of all kinds including mushrooms, molds, truffles, yeasts, lichens, plant pathogens, and medically important fungi. The scholarly journal "Mycologia" is one of the top mycological serials worldwide. The bimonthly newsletter "Inoculum" keeps members up to date on fungal news of all kinds. MSA members meet annually to exchange information about all aspects of fungi.
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Statistics and Data
Data Resources
| ARS : Datasets Provides links to collections of data are maintained by the Agricultural Research Service or by ARS in cooperation with other organizations. Organized by broad topic: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Food and Nutrition, Genetics, Germplasm, Natural Resources, Systematics(Taxonomic Classification)
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| Entrez Cross-Database Search Overviews and allows text-based searches of over 25 of the bibliographic databases and biomolecular data resources held at NCBI (the National Center for Biotechnology Information), including PubMed, OMIM, Entrez Gene, and Entrez Taxonomy; this site performs a simultaneous search of the various databases and reports back the number of hits in each -- you can then select an individual database to view detailed search results.
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software
| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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Style Manuals
| Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 7th ed. Published by the Style Manual Committee, Council of Science Editors.
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University of Minnesota
Related U of M Web Sites
| Cereal Disease Laboratory (CDL) The mission of the CDL is to reduce losses in wheat, oat, and barley to major diseases including leaf rust, stem rust, and Fusarium head blight. This mission is accomplished through research on the biology of the pathogens that cause these diseases and on methods to enhance disease resistance in small grains.
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| College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) CFANS is a college devoted to solution-driven science; we use critical and innovative thinking plus all the tools of the arts and sciences to make our planet a productive, friendly, and sustainable environment—to solve everyday problems. We study the health of the land and the health of the living.
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| Department of Plant Pathology The Department of Plant Pathology has a strong research and teaching emphasis in genetically-controlled disease resistance, molecular genetics and genomics, control of diseases caused by biotic pathogens (fungi, viruses, nematodes and bacteria), wood deterioration, and in the physiology and molecular biology of plant-microbe interactions.
Research areas include, but are not limited to: genetics of disease resistance at the molecular, cellular, and whole plant levels; plant disease management; microbial ecology; biological control; population genetics; plant virology; and air pollution and global climate change.
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| Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station (MAES) The MAES funds research at the University of Minnesota to improve and support Minnesota's families and communities, food, natural resources and agriculture.
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| University of Minnesota Extension Taking University research and education to the people of Minnesota ... discovering real-world solutions to real-life problems.
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Library Information
Primary Subject Location
Plant Pathology Library
Books and journals on diseases of plants, mycology, nematology, effects of pollution on plants.
Campus: St. Paul Campus
Address: 395 Borlaug Hall
Telephone: 612-625-9777
Main URL: http://plant.lib.umn.edu/
Reference URL: http://infopoint.lib.umn.edu/
Map URL: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/BorH/index.html
Hours URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/collections/plant/hours
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