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● Rhododendron-specific species / hybrids databases:
American Rhododendron Society (ARS) Plant Database
https://www.rhododendron.org/search_intro.asp
Searchable database of rhododendrons and azaleas species and hybrids that contains information on flower color, flower/truss description, fragrance, bloom time, foliage description, plant habit, height, cold hardiness temp, elepidote or lepidote, subgenus, section, subsection, and geographical origin as well as a truss photo.
Vireya Rhododendrons
http://www.vireya.net
The website includes a gallery that holds ~1000 images of vireyas, an archive with over 50 selected works on vireya culture and comprehensive listings of named hybrids, a species database, and information on the history, distribution, classification and cultivation of vireya rhododendrons.
Danish Chapter of the ARS
http://www.rhododendron.dk/alfabet.html
A great resource for photos of Rhododendron taxa, as well as species information. In Danish and English.
Edinburgh Rhododendron Monographs
https://data.rbge.org.uk/service/factsheets/Edinburgh_Rhododendron_Monographs.xhtml
Species, subspecies and variety descriptions along with notes on distribution, habitat, and nomenclature for about 1,000 Rhododendron species.
German Genebank Rhododendron
https://www.bundessortenamt.de/apps9/genbank_rhododendron/genbank_rhododendron/public/de
A searchable database with descriptions for all Rhododendron species and hybrids that exist in botanical gardens, state and public establishments, and private gardens in Germany. In German.
The Rhododendron, Camellia & Magnolia Group
https://www.rhodogroup-rhs.org/plants/directory/rhododendrons#!aberconwayi
The RHS Rhododendron Group website has lists of species and hybrids, hardy varieties, RHS Award of Garden Merit selections, top 100 Rhododendrons, Azalea species and hybrids and Vireyas. Also download the The International Rhododendron Register and Checklist, Second Edition 2004
Hirsutum.info: About Rhododendrons, Azaleas, and Vireyas; a virtual arboretum
http://www.hirsutum.info
Very large searchable collection of rhododendron photo images, donated by ARS members and others. Website is currently not functioning.
Western North American Rhododendron Species Project (WNARSP)
http://www.wnarsp.org
The Project's mission is to research and identify all locations of the indigenous Rhododendron species of the western United States and Canada and create a computerized archive of the information.
● General plant databases with species information and images:
Burke Herbarium Image Collection
http://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection.php
The image collection provides photographs and information for vascular plants, macrofungi, and lichenized fungi of Washington state, including distribution maps, species descriptions, and synonymy.
Calflora Plant Database
https://www.calflora.org
Calflora provides species information, distribution maps, and images for California plants.
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
https://eol.org/pages/39881308
EOL provides species information, maps, and images for all life on Earth.
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
https://www.wildflower.org/plants/
U. Texas website provides images and information on species native to North America, including plant characteristics, bloom information, distribution, growing conditions, value to beneficial insects, propagation, and where to acquire species.
NatureServe Explorer
https://explorer.natureserve.org/
NatureServe Explorer provides conservation status, taxonomy, distribution, and life history information for more than 70,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities and systems in the United States and Canada.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) PLANTS Database
https://plants.sc.egov.usda.gov/java/
The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories, including general information, distribution maps, images, synonyms, classification, legal status, and wetland status.
● Molecular databases:
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
NCBI maintains databases for nucleotide and protein sequences deposited from all organisms.
DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ)
https://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/services-e.html
DDBJ maintains databases for nucleotide sequences deposited from all organisms.
European Molecular Biology Laboratory – European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/
EMBL-EBI maintains databases for nucleotide and protein sequences deposited from all organisms.
Chinese Academy of Sciences Rhododendron Plant Genome Database (RPGD)
http://bioinfor.kib.ac.cn/RPGD/index.html
Comprehensive database for Rhododendron that integrates large amounts of omics data, including genome assemblies, gene expression profiles derived from published RNA-Seq data, functional annotation, gene family, transcription factor, homolog gene information, simple sequence repeat and chloroplast genome assemblies.
Rhododendron Genome Integrative Explorer from Beijing Forestry University
http://rhododendron.plantgenie.org
Tools for using the Rhododendron simsii genome and transcriptome.
● Specific plant trait databases:
Chromosome Counts Database (CCDB)
http://ccdb.tau.ac.il
Comprehensive community resource for plant chromosome numbers.
Index to Plant Chromosome Numbers (IPCN)
http://legacy.tropicos.org/Project/IPCN
IPCN provides gametophytic and/or sporophytic counts of chromosomes from published chromosome reports on plants.
Plant DNA C-values Database
https://data.kew.org/cvalues/
DNA amount in the unreplicated gametic nucleus of an organism is referred to as its C-value. Available reports for genome size according to C-value can be found here.
TRY Plant Trait Database
https://www.try-db.org/TryWeb/About.php
Database includes a variety of plant trait data, which can be obtained upon request.
● Plant image galleries:
CalPhotos
https://calphotos.berkeley.edu/
CalPhotos is a collection of photos of plants, animals, fossils, people, and landscapes from around the world.
● Online floras:
Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia
https://ibis.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/eflora/index.shtml
Flora of China
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=128386
Flora of North America
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=128386
Flora of Pakistan
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=128386
Jepson eFlora, Flora of California
https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_IJM.pl?key=8986
World Flora Online
https://www.worldfloraonline.org/search?query=Rhododendron
● Living collections:
The Arboretum and Botanical Garden, University of Bergen, Norway
https://uib.gardenexplorer.org
Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI)
https://www.bgci.org/plant_search.php
Kristian Theqvist RhodoGarden
https://rhodogarden.com/main/index_en.html
An extensively documented private collection in Finland.
Polar Alpine Botanical Garden (PABGI)
https://pabgi.ru
Garden located in Russia above the arctic circle that features a collection of Rhododendron species.
PABGI collection information:
https://journals.rbge.org.uk/rbgesib/article/view/304
Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden
https://rhodygarden.org
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE)
https://data.rbge.org.uk/search/livingcollection/
U. California Botanical Garden
https://webapps.cspace.berkeley.edu/botgarden/search/search/
Visit Rhododendron Gardens and Parks Around the World
https://www.rhododendron.org/gardens.htm
● DNA banks:
Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)
https://www.idigbio.org/genetic-resources
iDigBio is actively compiling a list of DNA banking facilities and genetic resources repositories in the United States that maintain collections of nucleic acid extracts (DNA or RNA) or preserved tissues suitable for genetic and genomic studies of biodiversity.
New York Botanical Garden Steere Herbarium
http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/dna-bank/
The Botanical Garden’s DNA Bank is a centralized repository of frozen plant, algal, and fungal tissue and extracted DNA.
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew DNA Bank
https://dnabank.science.kew.org/search
The Kew DNA and Tissue Collection contains samples of plant genomic DNA and silica dried tissue samples.
● Seed banks:
Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI)
https://www.bgci.org/plant_search.php
Search collection records to locate threatened, rare, medicinal and other plant species in living collections
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Millennium Seed Bank
http://apps.kew.org/seedlist/
Unites States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Germplasm Resources Information
Network (GRIN
https://www.ars-grin.gov/
● Tissue banks:
Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI)
https://www.bgci.org/plant_search.php
Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)
https://www.idigbio.org/genetic-resources
iDigBio is actively compiling a list of DNA banking facilities and genetic resources repositories in the United States that maintain collections of nucleic acid extracts (DNA or RNA) or preserved tissues suitable for genetic and genomic studies of biodiversity.
Missouri Botanical Garden
http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/plant-science/plant-science/william-l-brown-center/wlbc-resources/wlbc-databases/dna-bank.aspx
New York Botanical Garden Steere Herbarium
http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/dna-bank/
● Taxonomy:
Catalogue of Life
https://www.catalogueoflife.org
The Catalogue of Life is the most comprehensive and authoritative global index of species. Search Annual Checklist for accepted names and synonyms.
International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
https://www.ipni.org
IPNI provides nomenclatural information (spelling, author, types and first place and date of publication) for the scientific names of Vascular Plants from Family down to infraspecific ranks.
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
https://www.itis.gov
ITIS provides authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.
The Plant List
http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Rhododendron
The Plant List provides the Accepted Latin name for most species, with links to all Synonyms by which that species has been known.
World Flora Online
http://www.worldfloraonline.org/search?query=Rhododendron
An online flora of all known plants.
● Online herbarium collections:
Australasian Virtual Herbarium
https://avh.chah.org.au
Biodiversity of the Hengduan Mountains
http://hengduan.huh.harvard.edu/fieldnotes/specimens/search/search.zpt?action=search&st=Rhododendron
Consortium of California Herbaria
https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/consortium/
Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria
https://www.pnwherbaria.org/data/search.php
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium
http://www.virtualherbarium.org/vh/db/main.php
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium (Other Herbariums)
http://www.virtualherbarium.org/vh/othersystems.html
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
https://www.gbif.org
Harvard University Herbaria
https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/specimen_index.html
Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)
https://www.idigbio.org/portal/search
JSTOR Global Plants
https://plants.jstor.org
New York Botanical Garden C. V. Starr Virtual Herbarium
http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/vh/
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE)
https://data.rbge.org.uk/search/herbarium/
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Herbarium
https://apps.kew.org/herbcat/navigator.do
SEINet Network of North American Plant Herbaria (Arizona-New Mexico)
http://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/index.php
Singapore Herbarium
https://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/sing
SouthEast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections (SERNEC)
http://sernecportal.org/portal/
Symbiota Portals
http://symbiota.org/docs/symbiota-introduction/active-symbiota-projects/
● Research career opportunities:
American Public Gardens Association Career Center
https://www.publicgardens.org/professional-development/jobs
American Society of Plant Taxonomists Job Postings
https://www.aspt.net/opportunities#.YQNFnu1lCjg
Botanical Society of America Job Board
https://jobs.botany.org
Ecological Society of America Jobs Listing
https://www.esacareercenter.org
Evolution Directory Jobs
https://evol.mcmaster.ca/cgi-bin/my_wrap/brian/evoldir/Jobs/
Society of Herbarium Curators Jobs
https://www.herbariumcurators.org/jobs
The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections Jobs
https://spnhc.org/category/job-opportunities/
● Rhododendron research funding resources:
American Rhododendron Society Research Grants
https://www.rhododendron.org/researchgrants.htm
American Society of Plant Taxonomists:
Engagement and Excellence in Plant Systematics Education Award
https://www.aspt.net/eepsea#.YQNErO1lCjg
Graduate Student Research Grants
https://www.aspt.net/awards#.YQNFAe1lCjg
Undergraduate Research Prize
https://www.aspt.net/undergrad-prize#.YQNFNO1lCjg
Botanical Advocacy and Service Grant
https://www.aspt.net/advocacy-service-grant#.YQNFbO1lCjg
Botanical Society of America Awards
https://botany.org/home/awards.html
Ecological Society of America awards
https://www.esa.org/about/awards/
Society of Herbarium Curators Student Research Awards
https://www.herbariumcurators.org/awards
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