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Plant and Soil Science

This guide suggests resources for locating information and materials on Plant and Soil Science.

 

Contents of this research guide

Background Information  |  BooksArticles  | Statistics | Organizations | Additional Resources


Background Information

Encyclopedias and other reference works are an excellent place to start a research project or simply learn more about a particular topic.  They provide topic summaries, context, and bibliographies for further reading.

 

Dictionary of Ecology

Online Reference Book

Invasive Plant Species of the World:

a reference guide to environmental weeds

R 632.5 W3883i

Dictionary of Plant Sciences

Online Reference Book

Plant

R 580 P6941 2005

Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology

R 632.303 En196 v.1-2

Soil and Environmental Science Dictionary

R 631.403 So431

The Encyclopedia of Soil Science

R 631.403 En192

Turfgrass encyclopedia for golf course, grounds. lawns, sports fields

R 635.9642 B38t

Facts on File Dictionary of Botany

580.3 F1198

 
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Books
Use the Kent Library Catalog  to find books,  videos/DVDs, government documents and other materials.

Keyword searches allow you to use your own words as search terms.

Examples:

weed and turf soybeans

Subject Heading searches look for items that are part of a group or topic.

Examples:    
Crops Pests Control Soil Conservation
Fertilizers Plant Diseases Turf Grasses
Food Crops Plants Nutrition Turf Management
Grain Seeds Wheat
Grasses Soils  
Lawns Soil Fertility  

 

Browse the Shelves. Books on Hospitality Management and Food Service can fall into many different subject areas and many different call number ranges.  For a detailed list of sections try this outline.

 

630 Agriculture

632 Plant injuries, disease & pests

633 Field & plantation crops

636 Garden Crops (horticulture)

638 Insect Culture

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Articles

Search an article database to find scholarly journal articles, popular magazines articles and trade publications. For a full list of databases see the the database A-Z list or database by subject.

Subject Database
Botany & Ecology BasicBIOSIS
Geology & Ecology GEOBASE
Agriculture AGRICOLA
Agriculture, Science & Technology Wilson Omnifile
Botany & Plant Sciences JSTOR
Business & Trade ABI/Inform Complete

Business Source Premiere

Health Health Source Plus Nursing & Academic Edition
Science & Technology ArticleFirst
Law & News LexisNexis Academic Universe
Multidiscipline Academic Search Premiere

Proquest Research Library & Newspapers

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Statistics

 

National Agriculture Statistics Center http://www.nass.usda.gov/index.asp

 

Soybean Statistics from the American Soybean Association.

 

Pesticide Statistics from the National Pesticide Information Center
 

NRCS Soil Survery http://soils.usda.gov/survey/

 

World Census of agriculture http://www.fao.org/es/ess/census/

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Organizations


U.S. Grains Council www.grains.org/index.ww

Organic Trade Commission www.ota.com/index.html

USA Rice Federation www.usarice.com/about/

U.S. Rice Producers Association www.usriceproducers.com/

American Soybean Association www.asasoya.org/

American Society of Agronomy www.agronomy.org

Crop society of America www.crops.org

National Society for Consulting Soil Scientists, Inc. www.nscss.org/

Soil Science Society of America www.soils.org/

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Additional Resources
For a list of Web searching tools, see the Find: web resources page.

National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Soils http://soils.usda.gov/

NRCS Soil Survery http://soils.usda.gov/survey/

United States Department of Agriculture www.usda.gov

Pesticide National Synthesis Project http://ca.water.usgs.gov/pnsp/index.html

Kent Library Research Guides  
Agriculture Horticulture Chemistry
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page developed by Information Services/ Michelle Dubaj
last updated: 05/13/08

created: 5/11/06