Integrative Seed Biology is a NSF-funded seed biology program in the Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University. The program consists of research and learning activities on plant seeds. This website introduces you to our research projects and useful information on seeds.     Home   Comments or Questions   National Science Foundation

Seed Biology Books !

Seed Development, Dormancy and Germination

 Bradford KJ and Nonogaki H, eds

Blackwell Publishing

The Encyclopedia of Seeds: Science, Technology and Uses

Black M, Bewley JD and Halmer P, eds

CAB International 
 

Seed Conferences

9th ISSS Conference on Seed Biology

Olsztyn, Poland, July 6-11, 2008

5th International Symposium on Seed, Transplant and Stand Establishment of Horticultural Crops

Murcia-Almeria, Spain, October, 2009

Seed Biology Links 

International Society for Seed Science (ISSS)

Seed Biology - Electronic Mailing List, Cornell University 

Seed Biotechnology Center, University of California, Davis

Seed Biology at University of Kentucky

Seed Biology at Ohio State University

Seed Science Center, Iowa State University

Wageningen Seed Center, The Netherlands

Seed Biology Laboratory, INRA, France

Seed Biology Place, Germany

Millennium Seed Bank Project at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK

Seed Information Database

Seed Proteomics

Arabidopsis Seed Proteome

Useful Websites for Seed and Plant Biology 

FLOWERING 

<Florigen>

Botany Online, University of Hamburg 

<Photoperiodism> 

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Botany

<Electronmicroscopy> 

Iowa State University, Materials Science and Engineering Dept.

<ABC Model> 

Meyerowitz Lab, California Institute of Technology

<Arabidopsis Information>

TAIR, The Arabidopsis Information Resource

<Arabidopsis Seeds>

ABRC, Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center, Ohio State University

<Arabidopsis Knockout Plants> 

SIGnAL, Salk Institute Genomic Analysis Laboratory, National Science Foundation

FERTILIZATION 

<Meiosis> 

The Biology Project, University of Arizona

<Yucca & Moth> 

WAYNE'S WORD, Volume 9 [Number 2] Summer 2000

<Ginkgo biloba> 

THE GINKGO PAGES

<Double Fertilization> 

Computer Teaching Tips, Eastern Michigan University

<Passiflora> 

BWG Digital Library, Texas A &M University

<Cytoplasmic Male Sterility> 

Plsc431/631, Intermediate Genetics, North Dakota State University

<Cytoplasmic MaleSterility> 

Indian Agricultural Resources – Seeds

<Self-incompatibility> 

Kimball's Biology Pages

 EARLY EMBRYOGENESIS 

<Virtual Scanning Electron Microscopy> 

Molecular Expressions [Dr. Michael W. Davidson], Florida State University

<Embryonic Stem Cells> 

Embryonic Stem Cell Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison

MID EMBRYOGENESIS 

<Amylopectin Model> 

Water structure and behavior, Dr. Martin Chaplin, Southern Bank University, UK

<Peptide Bond> 

Peptides and Proteins, Synthesis, A condensation reaction

<Sedimentation Velocity>

Sedimentation Velocity

LATE EMBRYOGENESIS 

<BLAST Search> 

NCBI, National Center for Biotechnology Information

MATURE SEEDS 

<Seed Dispersal by Bats>

Atlas of Seeds Dispersed by Bats in the Neotropics

LONGEVITY 

<Longevity Gene "Indy"> 

Lord of the [Ancient] Flies

ELECTROPHORESIS 

<Amino Acids> 

School of Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia 

<Protein Gel Electrophoresis> 

Electrophoresis Simulation Site, Rochester Institute of Technology