Educational Institution & Government Sponsored Sites

• The Indiana Center for New Crops and Plant Products at Purdue University has several large indices of plant information.
• U.C. Fruit and Nut Research and Information Center including a Postharvest Outreach Program
• The National Clonal Germplasm Repository at Corvallis, Oregon, is a genebank that preserves invaluable plant genetic resources of temperate fruit, nut, and agronomic crops. This facility is one of about 30 sites in the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System.
• The WebGarden at the Ohio State University Department of Horticulture and Crop Science - Numerous resources for gardening enthusiasts and Green Industry professionals.
• Propagation Department - Fruit Tree Research Institute, Rome, Italy - plant tissue culture, micropropagation, plant biotechnology, plant cryopreservation
• Minor Tree Fruit Species Project. Coordinators: E. Bellini - E. Giordani, Dipartimento di Ortoflorofrutticoltura, Florence, Italy
  Covers: fig, strawberry tree, pomegranate, cornelian cherry, persimmon, medlar, loquat, jujube, cactus pear, azerole, quince, sorb, European chestnut, mulberry tree, pistachio, carob tree
• Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center at Washington State University
• USDA-ARS Tree Fruit Research Laboratory
• UCR - INFOMINE: Biological, Agricultural and Medical Resources
• Cornell Department of Horticulture
• Cornell Cooperative Extension
• Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand
• Pruning Trees - a brief guide to proper tree pruning.
• University of Missouri Extension publications on-line
• The Arboretum at the University of California, Santa Cruz
• Plant Tissue Culture in the Kitchen -- it's not as hard as you might think
• UC Davis, Agriculture and Natural Resources online catalog - educational publications, slide sets and videos
• UC Davis Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center - Storing Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
• Horticulture in the Northern Territory of Australia - Crop information for the Northern Territory.
• Cornell University Apple Rootstock Fact Sheets - Information and sources of all the common apple rootstocks sold in the U.S.
• The California Backyard Orchard - A University of California resource for fruit and nut crops.
• Citrus Industry, Chapter 4 - UC Riverside has scanned and put online this out-of-print citrus classic.
• UC Riverside Avocado Information Site - Answers to many of the most common questions about growing avocados.
• California Farmers Markets - Information compiled by the California Federation of Certified Farmers Markets and U.C. Davis.
• National Center for Home Food Preservation - Current research-based recommendations for most methods of home food preservation.
• Animated Budding Techniques - helpful animations showing various budding techniques, from Texas A&M.
• Asexual Plant Propagation - more information from Texas A&M on grafting and layering.
• Northwest Center for Small Fruits Research (NCSFR) - a joint research program that includes Oregon State University, Washington State University, University of Idaho and USDA-ARS
• Australian New Crops - the Australian equivalent to the Purdue University New Corps site above.
• Some of the Cultivated Fruits of El Salvador - En Español.
• Tropical Horticulture - Interesting and thorough series of lectures on tropical horticulture, including several on fruits, from Purdue University.
• Pistachio - Good set of lecture notes with photos on pistachio production from Texas A&M (in Adobe Acrobat format - requires free Acrobat reader be installed).
• Mark's Fruit Crops - A compilation of information about fruit by Mark Rieger, a faculty member at the University of Georgia.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - Uses international data standards to promote biodiversity information - over 100 million species currently listed.

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More links will be added here as we find them (and find the time to update this page.)