Plant Pathology

Professional Societies
American Phytopathological Society APSNet: http://www.APSNet.org
American Society for Microbiology http://asm.org/
American Association for the Advancement of Science http://www.aaas.org/
Association for Women in Science http://www.awis.org/
Ecological Society of America http://esa.org/
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society http://www.sigmaxi.org

Oomycete and genomics databases
Tobacco Bluemold Forecasting Center: http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/pp/bluemold/
Phytophthora database
phytophthoradb.org/
Mtgenome Sequence P. infestans
http://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca//
National Center for Biotechnology Information Genebank http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Phytophthora Collection Database UCR http://phytophthora.ucr.edu/default.html
Phytophthora Genome Project:http://www.ncgr.org/pgc/

Important Plant and Mycological Herbaria
Internet Directory for Botany http://www.botany.net/IDB/info.html
Tom Volks Fungi http://tomvolkfungi.net
Farlow Herbarium and Archives, Harvard University http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/cryptogamic.htm
Mycological Resources on the internet:collections http://biodiversity.uno.edu/~fungi/fcollect.html
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/
Systematic Botany and Mycology Lab - http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=12-75-39-00

Sustainable Agriculture
Winrock International - http://www.winrock.org
Organic Farming Research Foundation: http://www.ofrf.org
Sustainable Agriculture Network - http://www.sare.org/
Sierra Club - http://www.sierraclub.org/

The Irish Potato Famine- History
Eastburn, D. M., D'Arcy, C. J. 1996. Late Blight and the Irish Potato Famine Video, 25 minutes. ISBN 0-89054-169-8.
D'Arcy, C.J. and D.M. Eastburn. 2000. Late blight. Plants, Pathogens, and People website. http://nautilus.outreach.uiuc.edu/ppp/
Views of the Famine, http://vassun.vassar.edu/~sttaylor/FAMINE/
A Commemoration of the Great Famine (Ireland 1845), http://www.geocities.com/willboyne/nosurrender/PotatCom.html

Late Blight of Potato - the disease
Powelson, M.L. and D.A. Inglis. 1998. Potato late blight: Live on the internet. APSnet feature article. http://www.apsnet.org/online/feature/lateblit/
Schumann, G.L. and C. J. D'Arcy. 2000. Late blight of potato and tomato. The Plant Health Instructor. http://www.apsnet.org/education/LessonsPlantPath/Lateblit/top.htm
International Potato Center, http://www.cipotato.org/
The On-line Field Guide to Potato Late Blight. http://www.bcc.orst.edu/lateblight/
http://archives.math.utk.edu/software/msdos/modelling/lateblit/

General Plant Pathology
Schumann, G.L. and C.A. Jasalavich. 2000. Water molds (oomycetes). The Plant Health Instructor. http://www.apsnet.org/education/K-12PlantPathways/TeachersGuide/Activities/WaterMold/
The Plant Pathology Internet Guide Book by Thorsten Kraska, http://www.ifgb.uni-hannover.de/extern/ppigb/ppigb.htm

Molecular Biology
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Dolan DNA Learning Center, http://www.dnalc.org/home.html
PCR Jump Station, http://www.highveld.com/pcr.html

Agriculture Ethics and the Environment www.cals.ncsu.edu:8050/course/pp530

Plant Pathology http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/plantpath

NCSU homepage http://www.ncsu.edu/