NEW! Full text articles in CAB Abstracts

The UW-Madison Libraries have activated access to over 45,000 full text articles via CAB Abstracts.

These come from about 250 journals and about 400 conference proceedings & reports - around 12,000 new articles will be added per year. See this Powerpoint from CABI to learn how to limit a search to full text.

Conferences & reports include:

• Annual Conference of the Plant Growth Regulation Society of America


• Annual Meeting of the Interamerican Society for Tropical Horticulture


• Arab Conference for Applied Biological Pest Control


• Australian weeds conference


• Congress of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa


• European Association for Potato Research (EAPR) Virology Section Meeting


• European Weed Research Society Symposium


• International Bacterial Wilt Symposium


• International Safflower Conference


• International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods


• International Symposium on Biological Control of Bacterial Plant Diseases


• International Symposium on Fruit Flies of Economic Importance


• International Symposium on New Crops and Uses


• International Symposium on the Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms


• New Zealand Plant Protection Conference


• Report of a Working Group on Solanaceae


• Report on a Working Group on Curcubits


• Sustainable Grassland Productivity

Journals include:

• Acta Scientiarum - Agronomy (2003+)


• Agronomia Mesoamericana (2005+)


• Agronomijas Vestis / Latvian Journal of Agronomy


• Agro-Science (2005+)


• Anais do Instituto Superior de Agronomia (1995+)


• Annals of Medical Entomology (2003+)


• Asian Journal of Horticulture (2007+)


• Australian Journal of Crop Science (2008+)


• Buletinul Universitatii de Stiinte Agricole si Medicina Veterinara Cluj-Napoca. Seria Horticultura (2007+)


• Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology (2005+)


• Current Nematology (2004+)


• Folia Horticulturae (2005+)


• Folia Parasitologica (2005+ with 6 month embargo)


• Garcia de Orta - Serie de Botanica (2006+)


• Garcia de Orta - Serie de Estudos Agronomicos


• Haryana Journal of Horticultural Sciences (2006+)


• Horticulture, Environment and Biotechnology (2006+)


• Insect Environment (2008+)


• International Journal of Sustainable Crop Production (2006+)


• Iranian Journal of Plant Pathology (2006+)


• Journal of Crop and Weed (2006+)


• Journal of Horticultural Sciences (2006+)


• Journal of Mycopathological Research (2005+)


• Journal of Phytological Research (2005+)


• Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology (2005+)


• Journal of Plant Biotechnology (2005+)


• Journal of Plant Pathology (2005+ with 6 month embargo)


• Journal of Plant Protection and Environment (2007+)


• Journal of Soils and Crops (2005+)


• Journal of Spices and Aromatic Crops (2005+)


• Journal of the Korean Society for Horticultural Science (2005+)


• Korean Journal of Crop Science (2005+)


• Korean Journal of Horticultural Science & Technology (2005+)


• Lucrari Stiintifice - Universitatea de Stiinte Agronomice Bucuresti. Seria B, Horticultura


• National Journal of Plant Improvement (2005+)


• Nematologia Brasileira (2005+)


• New Zealand Plant Protection


• Notulae Botanicae, Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca (2007+)


• Pakistan Journal of Weed Science Research (2005+)


• Philippine Journal of Crop Science (2005+)


• Phytopathologia Polonica (2005+)


• Plant Archives (2006+)


• Plant Omics (2008+)


• Plant Pathology Bulletin (2005+)


• Plant Production Science (2005+)


• Proceedings of the Interamerican Society for Tropical Horticulture (2004+)


• Revista Brasileira de Horticultura Ornamental (2008+)


• Revista de Ciencias Agroveterinarias / Journal of Agronomy and Veterinary Sciences (2002+)


• Sodininkyste ir Darzininkyste / Horticulture and Vegetable Growing (2005+)


• South Indian Horticulture


• Soybean Genetics Newsletter (2005+)


• Udyanika: A Journal of Horticultural Sciences


• Vegetable Crops Research Bulletin (2005+)

Invasive species

Invasive plant and insect species have ecological, economic and health impacts. With changes in human geography and climate, management of biological invasions is of increasing concern.

Books:

• Applied weed science: including the ecology and management of invasive plants


• Handbook of alien species in Europe


• Pest management and phytosanitary trade barriers


• Ecology of weeds and invasive plants: relationship to agriculture and natural resource management


• Invasive plants: a guide to identification and the impacts and control of common North American species


• Unnatural landscapes: tracking invasive species


• Biological invaders in inland waters: profiles, distribution and threats


• Invasion biology


• Biological invasions in marine ecosystems: ecological, management, and geographic perspectives


• From biological control to invasion: the ladybird Harmonia axyridis as a model species


• Invasion ecology

Journals:

• Aquatic Invasions


• Biological Invasions


• Diversity & distributions


• Invasive plant science and management

Dissertations & Theses:

• Lake food webs and the benthos: cross-habitat connections, terrestrial subsidies, interaction strengths, and invasive species


• Invasive plant distributions: lessons from native and exotic ranges

Government Documents & Technical Reports:

• Field guide to noxious and invasive weeds: known to occur or are potentially occurring on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests


• Great Lakes shipping, trade, and aquatic invasive species


• Invasive bark beetles
  
• Current state of understanding about the effectiveness of ballast water exchange (BWE) in reducing aquatic nonindigenous species (ANS) introductions to the Great Lakes Basin and Chesapeake Bay, USA: synthesis and analysis of existing information


• Countdown to eradication = Pasos finales en la erradicación del escarabajo asiático de cuerno largo [Asian longhorned beetle]

Video:

• Stopping aquatic hitchhikers

See also:

• National Invasive Species Information Center (NISIC) - National Agricultural Library, USDA


• Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) - United States Geological Survey (USGS)


• "Why Invasive Plants Take Over" - Agricultural Research Service, USDA

DNA barcoding mosquitoes to fight disease

"DNA barcoding" will be used in Africa to help identify and track the mosquito species that spread the worm larvae causing lymphatic filariasis (LF), commonly known as elephantiasis. This may lead to a minimized and more accurately-targeted application of insecticides.

The technology was kicked into high gear with the publication of "Barcoding animal life: cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 divergences among closely related species" in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (Biological Sciences) by P.D.N. Hebert, S. Ratnasingham and J.R. deWaard of the University of Guelph in 2003.

See also:

• "DNA barcodes and insect biodiversity" - chapter in the book "Insect biodiversity: science and society"


• "Assembling DNA barcodes" - chapter in the book "Environmental genomics"


• "DNA barcoding of life: papers of a theme issue" - in the journal "Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London (Biological sciences)"

PubMed Central - free open access journals

PubMed Central is the free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journals, from the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

Journals recently added to PMC include:

• BioData Mining


• Bioinformation


• Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications


• Biophysical Journal


• BMC Systems Biology


• Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology


• CBE Life Sciences Education


• Comparative and Functional Genomics (formerly, Yeast)


• Cytotechnology


• Disease Models & Mechanisms


• Epigenetics & Chromatin


• Environmental Health Perspectives


• EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


• Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online


• Food & Nutrition Research (formerly, Scandinavian Journal of Food & Nutrition)


• Genes & Nutrition


• Genetics


• Genetics, Selection, Evolution: GSE


• HFSP Journal: frontiers of interdisciplinary research in the life sciences


• Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases


• International Journal of Biomedical Imaging


• International Journal of Molecular Sciences


• Journal of Molecular Signaling


• Journal of Nematology


• Korean Journal of Parasitology


• Molecular Systems Biology


• Open Biochemistry Journal


• Open Microbiology Journal


• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences


• Protein Science: A Publication of the Protein Society


• Systems and Synthetic Biology

See also:

• UK PubMed Central (UKPMC)

Victory gardens!

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Self-reliance is promoted by governments in hard economic times, especially during times of war when food may be rationed.

In the United States, citizens have been urged to grow "victory gardens" or "war gardens" at least as far back as World War I.

Here are some of the materials available to those interested in these self-help, do-it-yourself gardening movements:

Online digitized e-books:

• Everyman's garden in wartime (1917)


• Have a backyard garden (1917)


• Grow beans (1917)


• Getting the farm work done (1917)


• Drain the wet spots (1917)


• Defend your garden against insect pests (1917)
• Cultivation of Allotments (1917)


• War gardens : a pocket guide for home vegetable growers (1918)


• War vegetable gardening and the home storage of vegetables (1918)


• The War garden guyed (1918)


• The war garden victorious (1919)


• Victory gardens feed the hungry: the needs of peace demand the increased production of food in America’s victory gardens (1919)


• Gardens for Victory (1942)

Materials in UW-Madison Libraries

• War garden series (1914+) 1. Getting ready for the war garden -- 2. Seed sense for war gardeners -- 3. Early plants -- 4. Prepare the soil in the seed bed -- 5. Sowing the seed in the garden -- 6. Tillage is harvest insurance -- 7. Protect your garden


• World War 1, 1914-1918 miscellaneous broadsides from Wisconsin - Linden War Gardens, Letter from Special Committee on Food Production (Wausau, Wis.), Food Crops First (Columbia County Council of Defense)


• Raking the gardener and canning the canner : how the paragrapher, cartoonist, and humorist treat the men and women who have been raking the garden and canning the food products (1917)


• Root crops will supply food for man and beast (1917)


• Urban and suburban food production, its past and its future (1917)


• Woman’s National Farm and Garden Association bulletin (1917)


• Reuben and his wife’s war-garden (1918)


• Allotments for all; the story of a great movement (1918)


• War gardening and home storage of vegetables (1919)


• The victory of the gardens, a pageant in four episodes, written for the United States school garden army (1919)


• Home gardens for employment and food (1931)


• Community programs for subsistence gardens (1933)


• Gardening with Elizabeth Craig: a complete guide to all aspects of gardening in war-time (1940)


• Honey from your garden, a handy guide to beekeeping (1940)


• Guide for planning the local victory garden program (1942)


• War crops from our neighbor’s garden (1943)


• Victory gardeners can prevent ear-worms from entering their corn (1943)


• The 1943 victory garden program (1943)


• U.S. Government campaign to promote the production, sharing, and proper use of food. Book IV, Victory gardens campaign (1943)


• Victory garden: leader’s handbook (1943)


• Victory gardens (1943)


• Victory garden manual (1943)


• Vegetable gardening in wartime (1943)


• Going to the farm front? (1943)


• Schools and war gardens, some guides and resources (1943)


• Victory garden insect guide (1944)


• Allotmenteering in wartime (1944)


• A victory gardener’s handbook on insects and diseases (1944)


• Plow not, weed not, and really enjoy your garden (1945)


• Gardener’s chance: from war production to peace possibilities (1946)

"The Wisconsin Gardener" video series

"The Wisconsin Gardener" is a long-running series of Wisconsin Public Television. Master gardener Shelley Ryan and her guests present information and advice specifically for gardening in the Midwest.

Transcripts for over 60 episodes are available for free from the show's website, and ten DVDs are available for purchase directly from WPT. Many libraries lend one or more of the 30-40 minute episodes on videotape or DVD for free, including:

• Appleton Public Library


• Beaver Dam Community Library
  
• Berlin Public Library


• Brown County Library
  
• DeForest Public Library


• Door County Library (Sturgeon Bay)


• Elkhorn Public Library


• Indianhead Federated Library System


• Kenosha Public Library


• Ladysmith Public Library


• Madison Area Technical College Library
  
• Madison Public Library


• Manitowoc Public Library


• Marshfield Public Library


• Middleton Public Library


• Milwaukee County Federated Library System
  
• Northeast Wisconsin Public Library System


• Oconto Falls High School Library


• Olbrich Gardens' Schumacher Library (Madison)


• Oshkosh Public Library


• Ripon Public Library


• South Central Library System


• Southwest Wisconsin Technical College Library


• Tomahawk Public Library


• UW-Stevens Point Library


• Wauwatosa Public Library


• WI DPI Reference & Loan Library


• Winnefox Library System
  

Plants & insects in the National Archives

The United States National Archives contains a wealth of information in multiple formats. Search the Archival Research Catalog for topics of interest, or search by departments such as:

• Records of the U.S. Food Administration, 1917 - 1920


• Records of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 1863 - 1956


• Records of the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1839 - 1981


• Records of the Extension Service, 1888 - 1995


• Records of International Conferences, Commissions, and Expositions, 1825 - 1972


• Records of the Office of Government Reports, 1932 - 1947


• Records of the Bureau of Land Management, 1685 - 2006


• Records of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, 1879 - 1972


• Records of the U.S. Geological Survey, 1839 - 2002


• Records of the Work Projects Administration, 1922 - 1944


• Records of the National Park Service, 1785 - 2005


• Records of the Forest Service, 1870 - 2000


• Records of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, 1875 - 1977


• Records of the Bureau of Reclamation, 1889 - 2008


• Records of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, 1909 - 1992


• Records of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1944 - 2000


• General Records of the Department of Energy, 1915 - 2003


• Audiovisual Collection, 1957 - 2006


• Records of U.S. Foreign Assistance Agencies, 1942 - 1961


• Records of the Cooperative State Research Service, 1888 - 1989


• Records of the Office of Education, 1870 - 1979


• Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, 1826 - 1981


• Records of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1876 - 1959


• Records of the Office of War Information, 1926 - 1951


• Records of the Agency for International Development, 1948 - 2003

Sample record:

"Photographs Relating to Entomological Research, compiled ca. 1898 - ca. 1942"

• Series from Record Group 7: Records of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 1863-1956


• Contact: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. PHONE: 301-837-3530; FAX: 301-837-3621; EMAIL: stillpixorder@nara.gov


• Subjects Represented in the Archival Material:


• Agricultural experiment stations
  Agricultural machinery
  Agricultural research
  Crops
  Flowers
  Insects
  Clarksville (Montgomery county, Tennessee)
  Columbus (Franklin county, Ohio)
  Farmville (Chatham county, North Carolina)
  Madison (Dane county, Wisconsin)
  Phoenix (Maricopa county, Arizona)
  Richmond (Virginia)
  Ventura (Ventura county, California)
  Whittier (Los Angeles county, California)


• Contributors to Authorship and/or Production of the Archival Materials:
  Department of Agriculture. Federal Horticultural Board. (08/21/1912 - 07/01/1928), Photographer


• Scope & content: This series consists of images relating to entomological research conducted on plants and insects from 1898 to 1942. These images were collected primarily from offices within the Division of Entomology and later the Bureau of Entomology and Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. The photographs show experimental farm fields and orchards, agricultural research facilities, pests, insect damage to various crops, including mushrooms and potatoes; and insect eradication efforts. There are also images of agency research activities, including field work and various types of machinery and equipment used in Bureau facilities in Clarksville, Tennessee; Farmville, North Carolina; Columbus, Ohio; Madison, Wisconsin; Phoenix, Arizona; Richmond, Virginia; Hogen, Utah; Whittier, California; and Ventura, California. In addition, there are a few of the photographs obtained from the Federal Horticultural Board that show flower bulbs, insect pests, insect damage to flowers, and pest eradication efforts.

Biological databases and bioinformatics

Oxford Journals has launched the open access journal Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation.

The new journal aims to publish "novel ideas in database research and the curation of biological information... to strengthen the bridge between database developers, curators and users." More specifically, it "will publish detailed descriptions of databases, database tools and curation strategies in the broad arena of biology... shorter papers describing significant updates to established databases... user tutorials and technical notes...".

Related journals:

• Advances in Bioinformatics
• BioData Mining
• Biodiversity Informatics
• Bioinformatics
• Bioinformatics and Biology Insights
• Bioinformation
• Biostatistics
• BMC Bioinformatics
• Briefings in Bioinformatics
• Chem-Bio Informatics Journal
• Ecological Informatics
• Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online
• Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics
• International Journal of Biostatistics
• Journal of Biology, Biological Systems & Bioinformatics
• Journal of Biomedical Informatics
• Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics
• Journal of Proteomics and Bioinformatics
• Open Bioinformatics Journal

Related books, e-books & proceedings:

• Biodiversity databases : techniques, politics, and applications
• Bioinformatics
• Bioinformatics: A Practical Approach
• Biological database modeling
• Data integration in the life sciences: 5th international workshop, DILS 2008, Evry, France, June 25-27, 2008, proceedings
• Evolutionary computation, machine learning and data mining in bioinformatics: 6th European Conference, EvoBIO 2008, Naples, Italy, March 26-28, 2008: proceedings
• Genomes, browsers, and databases: data-mining tools for integrated genomic databases
• Plant bioinformatics: methods and protocols
• Plant proteomics: methods and protocols

Open access journals via Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell offers various open access options, including "OnlineOpen" (author or funding agency pays for individual articles to be publicly-accessible); policies regarding the NIH, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Wellcome Trust mandates; and "Open Access Backfiles" (society or funding agency pays for digitization of past issues). Journal backfiles available for free to the public include:

• Australian Journal of Entomology - Content older than 1997
• Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education - Content older than 2 years back to 2002
• Cellular Microbiology - Content older than 2 years
• FEBS Journal - Content older than 1 year
• Functional Ecology - Content older than 2 years
• Genes To Cells - Content older than 6 months
• Journal of Applied Ecology - Content older than 2 years
• Journal of Applied Microbiology - Content older than 3 years back to Jan 1st 1997
• Journal of Ecology - Content older than 2 years
• Journal of Evolutionary Biology - Content older than 2 years
• Letters In Applied Microbiology - Content older than 3 years back to Jan 1st 1997
• New Phytologist - Content older than 1 year
• Plant Cell & Environment - Content older than 3 years back to Jan 1st 1997
• Plant Pathology - Content older than 3 years back to Jan 1st 1997
• The Plant Journal - Content older than 1 year

Top-ranked Journals in Ecology and Environmental Sciences

Top-ranked Journals in Ecology and Environmental Sciences

1. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution & Systematics (1970+ online)
2. Nature (1869-1875, 1950+ online)
3. Science (1880+ online)
4. Trends in Ecology and Evolution (1995+ online)
5. Ecological Monographs (1931+ online)
6. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (1915+ online)
7. Systematic Biology (1992+ online)
8. Ecology (1920+ online)
9. Ecology Letters (1998+ online)
10. The American Naturalist (1867+ online)
11. Conservation Biology (1987+ online)
12. Environmental Health Perspectives (1972+ online)
13. Molecular Ecology (1992+ online)
14. Ecological Applications (1991+ online)
15. Journal of Ecology (1913+ online)
16. Global Change Biology (1997+ online)
17. Journal of Applied Ecology (1964+ online)
18. Oecologia (1968+ online)
19. Ecosystems (1968+ online)
20. Environmental Science & Technology (1967+ online)

Based on citations per paper among journals with 10,000 or more citations, 1998-2008.

[Source: Thomson Reuters Science Watch; Sci-Bytes; What's New in Research: April 12, 2009]