• Animals

• Bacteria

• Biosecurity

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• Crops

• Entomology

• Environment

• Equipment

• Experts

• Flora

• Fungi

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• Journals 

• People

• Pesticides

• Pests

• Plants

• Publications

• Quarantine

• Research

• Searches

• Viruses

• Weeds

• Other

Animals

Animal Health Information System FAO/SPC
Internet: http://panis.spc.int

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Bacterial Nomenclature up-to-date
http://www.dsmz.de/bactnom/bactname.htm

List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature
http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/

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Biosecurity

Australian Import Conditions Database (ICON) is AQIS's import conditions database. It provides access to information about Australia import conditions for more than 18, 000 foreign plant, animal, mineral and human commodities. It can be used to determine if a commodity intended for import to Australia needs a quarantine permit and/or treatment or if there are any other quarantine prerequisites.

Internet: http://www.aqis.gov.au/icon/asp/homecontent.asp

Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) develops quarantine policies and procedures relating to proposed imports into Australia of animals, plants and their products. 

Internet: http://www.aqis.gov.au/

It provides export certification and market access assistance.

Internet:  http://www.affa.gov.au/outputs/quarantine.html

Convention on Biological Diversity The objectives of this Convention are the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources.
Internet: http://www.biodiv.org/convention/articles.asp

Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Papua New Guinea.
Internet: http://www.agriculture.gov.pg/ (Hyperlink not working) 

Department of Agriculture, American Samoa.
Internet: http://www.government.as/agriculture.htm (Hyperlink not working)

Department of Agriculture, Guam.
Internet: http://www.admin.gov.gu/doa/GOVGUAMID/DOAGR-ID_1.html (Hyperlink now working)

Guam Customs and Quarantine provides a host of commodity import restrictions & prohibitions, health alerts, including helpful information on drug prevention information, and many more. Additionally, our agency regulations are found on the button entitled "Other Agency Programs". 
Internet: http://www.justice.gov.gu/custom/index.htm

Government of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands website.
Internet: http://www.saipan.com/gov/index.htm

Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk
Provides technology, methods, and information to decision-makers, resource managers, and the general public to aid in the fight against harmful alien species in Hawaii and the Pacific.
Internet: http://www.hear.org  

Ministry of Agriculture, Government of New Zealand
Internet: http://www.maf.govt.nz

New Zealand quarantine
Internet: http://www.maf.govt.nz/MAFnet/index.htm  

New Zealand, Quarantine Standards and Pest outbreaks.
Internet: http://www.maf.govt.nz/Standards/anbio/outbreak.htm

Database with contacts on anything related to horticulture in New Zealand.
Internet: http://www.hortnet.co.nz/

Niue Government website.

Vanuatu Quarantine and Inspection Service (Service de Quarantaine et Inspection du Vanuatu) is a visitors guide for bringing into Vanuatu Plant, Plant product, Animal Porduct, live animal, agriculture tools, sporting and camping equipment as accompanied baggage.
Internet: http://www.vanuatutourism.com/quarantine.htm

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Chemicals

Environmental Defense Scorecard-About the chemicals. Scorecard provides detailed information on more than 6,800 chemicals, including all the chemicals used in large amounts in the United States or Canada and all the chemicals regulated under major environmental laws. You can search for information by typing in the chemical's name (or any common synonym) or the chemical's standard identification number (Chemical Abstracts Service or CAS registry number).

Internet: http://www.scorecard.org/

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Crops

COLEACP (Europe-Africa-Caribbean-Pacific Liaison Committee) has a database of maximum residue levels (MRLs) for agricultural crops exported to Europe. About 30 crops are covered. (COLEACP aims to promote the competitive export of fresh fruit, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants from the African, Caribbean and the Pacific. Its specialised information and advisory services are financed by the European Commission in the framework of the Lomé Convention.)
http://www.coleacp.org

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Entomology

Australian Entomological Supplies Pty.Ltd. Mail order entomological supplies specialists providing equipment and also books.
Internet: http://www.entosupplies.com.au/

Australian Insect Common Names. This web site provides ready access to the correct scientific name of every insect or related creature for which there is a common (or vernacular) name in use in Australia. The site also enables the user to discover the common name or names used in Australia for a species for which the user knows only the scientific name. Species are also listed in family groupings. The site is of interest to quarantine officers who need to know what pests are present in Australia.
Internet: http://www.ento.csiro.au/aicn/

Catalog of the Diptera in the Pacific
Internet: http://www.bishop.hawaii.org/bishop/ento/aocat/  

Entomology Index of Internet Resources 
A directory and search engine of insect-related resources on the Internet.
Internet: http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/

Insect Ecology in New Guinea. Has more than 1,600 images of over 1,200 species of herbivorous insects from New Guinea and extensive databases of entomological literature on New Guinea.
Internet: http://www.bishopmuseum.org/bishop/natsci/ng/ngecol.html

List of entomological departments worldwide
Internet: http://www.uog.edu/cals/people/MAIN/MAIN.htm (Hyperlink not working)

Regional Management of Fruit Flies in the Pacific
Internet: http://www.pacifly.org 

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Environment

Convention on Biological Diversity provides information on Upcoming Meetings, Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, Pilot Phase of the Biosafety Clearing-House and Latest notifications.

Internet: http://www.biodiv.org/

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promotes market-based solutions to environmental challenges, focusing on environmental results over bureaucratic process. Their website is a good source of information on environmental aspects of pesticides.

Internet: http://www.epa.gov/epahome/

United States Environment Protection Agency (EPA)-In the News provides the latest news for the month and archives of previous news.

Internet: http://www.epa.gov/oppfead1/cb/csb_page/

United States Environment Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Pesticides Program offers a variety of topics relating to pesticides.

Internet: http://www.epa.gov/pesticides

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Equipment

Hawaii's Agricultural Gateway Equipment for production and processing contains a list of websites that sell processing and production equipment at a reduced price.
Internet: http://www.hawaiiag.org/equipment.htm

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Experts

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Flora

Texas A&M University Biosystematics Working Group is an impressive collection of photos of a large number of plants, including many weeds and offers "downloadable files relating to Herbarium Specimen Data Management and WWW Expression.
Internet: http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/bwgpost1.htm

Texas A&M University Vascular Plant Image Gallery-Summary Listing provides an alphabetical listing from A-Z of plant species.
Internet: http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.htm  

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Fungi

WFCC-MIRCEN World Data Centre for Microorganisms (WDCM)
http://wdcm.nig.ac.jp/simple_search.html

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General Agriculture

CAB International is the leading global not-for-profit organisation specialising in sustainable solutions for agricultural and environmental problems.
Internet: http://www.cabi.org

College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky offers information on academic programmes on agriculture.
Internet: http://www.ca.uky.edu/

Farm Safety contains links relating to farm safety resources for the entrepreneur and home owner.
Internet: http://www.hawaiiag.org/onfarmsafety.htm

Grin Taxonomy provides the structure and nomenclature for the accessions of the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS). Many plants (37,000 taxa, 14,000 genera) are included in GRIN taxonomy, especially economic plants. A recent paper on GRIN taxonomy provides a thorough discussion of data standards and taxonomic philosophy.
Internet: http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/tax/index.html

HortResearch New Zealand is creating new fruit varieties, technologies and products that increase value for consumers, producers and manufacturers in the food and agbiotech industries.
Internet: http://www.hort.cri.nz/  

Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research is an independent Crown Research Institute that focuses on management of land resources for conservation and for primary production.
Internet: http://www.landcare.cri.nz/

Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry, New Zealand (MAF) creates opportunity for, and manages risk to, New Zealand's food, fibre, forestry and associated industries.
Internet: http://www.maf.govt.nz

New Agriculturist On-line Magazine is an on-line magazine with wide information on Agriculture.
Internet: http://www.new-agri.co.uk

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Journals 

Australian Journal of Entomology. Abstracts of 1999 and earlier issues can be displayed.

Internet: http://www.blackwell-science.com/

Biocontrol is a fully refereed international journal (was "Entomophaga" until the end of 1997). 

Internet:  http://iobc.ethz.ch/pub/index.html (Hyperlink not working)

Bulletin of Entomological Research. Issues of years 1998 onwards and abstracts of earlier issues, can be displayed online. Papers can be loaded in PDF format.

Internet: http://pest.cabweb.org/Journals/BER/bermain.htm

Florida Entomologist. All issues from 1994 to 2000 may be viewed online in PDF format, without charge.

Internet: http://www.fcla.edu/FlaEnt/feissues.htm

Journal of Applied Entomology. Abstracts can be viewed.

Internet: http://www.blackwell-science.com/

New Disease Reports is an online peer-reviewed journal of the British Society for Plant Pathology. It has reports on:

• New hosts for known plant pathogens

• New geographical location reports for known plant pathogens

• Significant outbreaks of known diseases

Three papers that will be of interest to Pacific Island readers are:

• The natural occurrence of hibiscus chlorotic ringspot virus (Carmovirus; Tombusviridae) in aibika or bele (Abelmoschus manihot) in some South Pacific Island countries. (A.A.Brunt & Nicola J. Spence)

• First Report of dasheen mosaic virus in elephant foot Yam in India (M. K. Pandit, P. S. Nath, S. Mukhopadhyay, B.J.Devonshire & P. Jones)

• Severe stunting of Vanilla tahitensis in French Polynesia caused by cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), and the detection of the virus in V. fragrans in Reunion Island (K. Farreyrol, M.N. Pearson, M. Grisoni & F. Leclercq-Le Quillec)
  Internet: http://www.bspp.org.uk/ndr/ 

New Pest Advisory is the information website of The Hawaii Department of Agriculture, which provides information on new pests and diseases that have become established in Hawaii. Information on the following pests are currently on this site: Red Gum Lerp Psyllid; Black Spot of Papaya Disease; A New Ant Found in Hawaii; Citrus Leafminer; Citrus Blackfly; Little Fire Ant; and Sago Palm Scale. 

Internet: http://www.hawaiiag.org/hdoa/npa.htm

The  New Zealand Plant Protection Society has papers and proceedings from previous meetings since 1994 on-line. 

Internet: http://www.hortnet.co.nz/nzpps

Back issues and other publications can be ordered directly at the Website of Manaaki Whenua Press.

Internet: http://www.landcare.cri.nz/mwpress/ 

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People

Secretariat of the Pacific Community's Experts Database is an on-line database containing the names of experts.
Internet: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu:591/spcexpertsdb/ (Hyperlink not working)

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Pesticides

National Pesticide Applicator Training Core Manual (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA) contain information on applying pesticides correctly.
Internet: http://ianrwww.unl.edu/ianr/pat/pat.htm 

Pesticide Active Ingredient Profiles includes 1314 articles under the following topics: All Pesticides- General Category; Insecticides and Miticides; Herbicides and Growth Regulators; Fungicides and Nematicides; Genetic Engineering and Microbial Pesticides; Miscellaneous Pesticides (Antimicrobial, Attractants, Bactericide, Disinfectant, etc.) Initial Filing of Pesticide Petitions; Cancelled Uses; Deleted Uses.
Internet: http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles

Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Pesticide Database. "The PAN Pesticide Database is the largest, most comprehensive collection of pesticide data in the world, including information about 5,100 pesticide active ingredients, pesticide breakdown products and related chemicals. The system also provide information on over 100, 000 formulated pesticides products registered by U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and California Department of Pesticide Regulation." "your one-step location for current toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides." 
Internet: http://www.pesticideinfo.org

The EXtension TOXicology NETwork (EXTOXNET) is a cooperative effort of University of California-Davis, Oregon State University, Michigan State University, Cornell University, and the University of Idaho. Primary files are maintained and archived at Oregon State University. It allows the searching and browsing

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Pests

APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) Regulated Pest List. The purpose is to provide trading partners with an official USDA-APHIS list of Regulated Plant Pests of concern to the US, and to provide a focus to APHIS' safeguarding activities including pre-clearance inspection at ports of entry, exotic pest surveys, and eradication activities.
Internet: http://www.invasivespecies.org/NewInitiatives.html

Database of IPM Resources (DIR) is an information retrieval and referral system and a compendium of customized directories of worldwide IPM information resources accessible through the Internet. With DIR, one can quickly find the way to thousands of IPM information sites.  The DIR covers a wide array of crops, pests, control tactics, regions, organizations, and related topics in a user-friendly format.  DIR's contents span most of the disciplines involved in IPM.
Internet: http://www.ippc.orst.edu/cicp/

Diamondback Moth Plutela xylostella (L.). This site has been developed by the International Group on Diamondback Moth to help organize and disseminate information on the biology, ecology and management of this serious pest.
Internet: http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/dbm/  

Ecoport contains information on the presence of pests worldwide. 
Internet: http://www.ecoport.org/  

Knowledge Master from the University of Hawaii, contains general information on pest hosts, distribution, damage, biology, and management in the form of pest summaries, reports and recommendations, and resource information. You can select a crop and get separate lists of pests and diseases that it is susceptible to. Then click on a pest or disease to see a fact sheet on that pest species.
Internet: http://www.extento.hawaii.edu/kbase/crop/crop.htm

Timber pests & diseases. A field guide to exotic pests and diseases, a book featuring photos and short descriptions of 25 exotic timber and forest pests and diseases that could devastate Australia's native forests and amenity trees.
Internet: http://www.aqis.gov.au/docs/border/fieldguide.htm

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Plants

CIMMYT Publications: Maize Diseases: A guide for field identification. 4th Edition

http://www.cimmyt.org/english/docs/field_guides/maize/diseases.htm

GRIN Taxonomy provides the structure and nomenclature for the accessions of the US Agricultural Research Service National Plant Germplasm System. Many plants (37,000 taxa, 14,000 genera) are included in GRIN Taxonomy, especially economic plants. 

Internet: http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/tax/

Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature, a database of references relevant to the taxonomy of flowering plants, gymnosperms and ferns. 

Internet:  http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/kr/KRHomeExt.html

Missouri Botanic Gardens. This site provides access to the Missouri Botanical Garden's VAST (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclatural database and associated authority files.  

Internet: http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html

Pacific Islands Ecosystems at Risk (PIER) contains listings and descriptions of plant species that threaten Pacific island ecosystems, particularly those of Micronesia, American Samoa and Niue. 
Internet: http://www.hear.org/pier/index.html

Plant Names 

The International Plant Names Index is 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 are freely available and are gradually being standardized and checked. IPNI will be a dynamic resource, depending on direct contributions by all members of the botanical community. IPNI is the product of a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium.

Internet: http://www.ipni.org/

The International Plant Name Index Query allow searches for plant names. 

Internet : http://www.ipni.org/searches/query_ipni.shtml

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Publications

A -Z -Crop and Food Research includes all Crop & Food Research products, services and information resources listed in alphabetical order Pest and other leaflets.
Internet: http://www.crop.cri.nz/home/products-services/index.jsp

ACIAR Proceedings 100 PHT Newsletter 56 on line. This publication contains the 125 papers presented at the 19th ASEAN/1^st APEC Seminar on Postharvest Technology held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from 9-12 November 1999. The purpose of postharvest handling is timely delivery of a product that closely matches buyer specifications and meets regulatory requirements. Satisfying customers underpins quality assurance and other quality systems that aim to provide product of the desired standard. The theme of the seminar-Quality Assurance in Agricultural Produce-acknowledged that this is a time in which trade in agricultural produce is playing a vital role in stimulating the economies of the region. The latest Postharvest newsletter is also available. Please note that the latter contains information about the 20th ASEAN 2nd APEC Postharvest technology Seminar scheduled for Chaing Mai, Thailand in mid September 2001.
Internet: http://www.aciar.gov.au/

Plant Pathology Internet Guide is a subject oriented internet resource guide for plant pathology, applied entomology, and all related fields.
Internet: http://www.ifgb.uni-hannover.de/extern/ppigb/  

Portable Extension Office for Literature Exchange (PEOPLE) is a ADAP Agricultural Pests of the Pacific fact sheet.
Internet: http://www.uog.edu/cals/PEOPLE/

Subscription to AQIS publications allows for subscribing to a list of AQIS publications.
Internet: http://www.aqis.gov.au/maillist/  

Texas Plant Disease Handbook.  Clear and easy Web site; mostly temporate crops; See METHODS AND MATERIALS, Cultural Practices for Disease Control.
Internet: http://cygnus.tamu.edu/Texlab/tpdh.html (Hyperlink not working)

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Quarantine

See Biosecurity.

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Research

AVRDC (Asian Vegetable And Research Development Centre) was established in 1971 to help improve the nutrition, health, and incomes of families in developing countries. The Center's goal is to develop environmentally safe and sustainable vegetable production technologies that can be adapted by national agricultural research systems.
Internet: http://www.avrdc.org.tw/  

Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Plant Protection. Comprises nine core Australian organisations with expertise to improve management of diseases and pests of tropical crops. Research Focus: Diseases and pests cause annual production losses of up to $1.5 billion in northern Australia. It coordinates Plant Protection strategic research for northern Australia, with a major focus on disease and pest prevention through improved diagnosis and on the increased use of disease and pest resistant plant cultivars.
Internet: http://www.tpp.uq.edu.au/

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Viruses

WFCC-MIRCEN World Data Centre for Microorganisms (WDCM)
http://wdcm.nig.ac.jp/simple_search.html

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Weeds

Alien Species in Hawaii. This site is the entry point for information on alien species in Hawaii compiled by the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk (HEAR) Project. You can link to distribution information by species index; or, to go directly to an index of distribution maps (including by-island information).
Internet: http://www.hear.org/AlienSpeciesInHawaii/ 

Global Compendium of Weeds. At this website, you may search for a species of plant to check whether one or more of nearly 300 references lists that species as having weedy tendencies. It contains references to approximately 20,000 plant taxa, citing information about "weedy" characteristics of each. The website is a collaborative venture between AgWest (data & weed expertise) and the USGS 'Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR) (database consultation & website management).'
Internet: http://www.hear.org/gcw/index.html

Greening Australia Queensland's Weed Guide. This site seeks to inform the visitor about environmental and declared weeds that threaten our remnant ecosystems (bushlands, wetlands and riparian areas). It features photos, detailed descriptions, declaration status, habitat and control methods for 42 environmental and declared weeds found within the greater Brisbane region.
Internet: http://www.qld.greeningaustralia.org.au/weedguide/index.html

Principles of Weed Control. Herbicide application; equipment and techniques; poisonous plants; weed control in fruit and nut crops, field crops and pasture grasses.
Internet: http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/scripts/htmlgen.exe?MENU_WG  

The Invasive Woody Plants in the Tropics. A research group, based at the University of Wales, UK, has undertaken two major field studies in Jamaica and Tanzania, together with a global review of invasions resulting in a comprehensive database, an analysis of common characteristics and recommendations for management and control.
Internet: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/~afs101/iwpt/welcome.shtml  

The World Weeds Database displays information of over 2400 weed species around the world according of its rank of importance.
Internet: http://www.plants.ox.ac.uk/ofi/wwd/pweeds.htm (Hyperlink not working)

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Other

The British Crop Protection Council aims to promote and encourage the science and practice of crop protection.
Internet: http://www.bcpc.org

The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) is a multilateral treaty deposited with the Director-General of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and administered through the IPPC Secretariat located in FAO's Plant Protection Service. One hundred and eleven (111) governments are currently contracting parties  to the IPPC. The purpose of the IPPC is to secure common and effective action to prevent the spread and introduction of pests of plants and plant products  and to promote measures for their control.
Internet: http://www.ippc.int/  

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