Overview for horticulture
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Horticulture Compendium from CABI
Horticulture Compendium indexes and provides full-text datasheets on horticultural crops, pests, diseases, and countries. Includes images, a glossary of terms, and selected topic chapters. Coverage focuses on temperate, tropical, and subtropical food crops. Launched in 2017; content is continually reviewed and updated, with new datasheets added regularly. -
Crop Protection CompendiumUp-to-date information on 10,000 pests, diseases, weeds and natural enemy species worldwide. Over 2,360 complete datasheets, provided by over 1,100 specialists. Data for over 200 different crops and over 150 countries, with global and regional distribution maps. Over 8000 images allowing for easy identification of crop pests. Background information on 10,000 pests, diseases, weeds and natural enemy species providing a complete archive. Some documents are available in full text as HTML and PDF.
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Global Plants from JSTORWe have temporary access to this resource. Global Plants provides over 2 million high-resolution images of type specimens of plants from around the world.
Recommended online resources
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CAB Abstracts from CABICAB Abstracts indexes citations and abstracts from journals, books, reports, handbooks, conference proceedings, field notes, and theses in agriculture, life sciences, natural resources, veterinary sciences, applied economics, nutrition, tourism, and the environment. Includes the CAB Abstracts Archive. Some full text available as PDFs. 1910s-present.
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AGRICOLA from ProQuestAGRICOLA indexes citations for journal articles, books, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software, and technical reports on agriculture, life sciences, nutrition, and environmental science. It serves as the catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library and provides worldwide coverage of agricultural information. Coverage: 1970–present, with selected materials from earlier periods.
Early literature databases
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Core Historical Literature of AgricultureThe Core Historical Literature of Agriculture is a core electronic collection of scanned agricultural texts. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science, forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science. 1620-1999.