Horticulture Subject Guide
Contents
Guide to Internet resources in tropical horticulture especially those that relate to Hawaii and the Pacific Islands
- Finding Books, Journals and Dissertations
- Finding Journal Articles
- Floraculture and Foliage Plant Production
- Fruits, Nuts, and Other Tree Crops
- Ornamental Plants and Landscaping
- Pest and Disease Control
- Vegetable Crops
- Other Crops - Beverage, Medicinal, etc.
- General Tropical Horticulture
- Citation Styles and Using Endnote
- Related UH Links
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Finding Books, Journals and Dissertations
Hawaii Voyager | Search Guide (PDF)
Hawaii Voyager is the catalog for all of the University of Hawaii libraries. Search Hawaii Voyager for books, journals, videos, and more. Do not use it to find specific journal articles on a topic. Go to Finding Journal Articles for links to those tools.
Use this database to find electronic journals, e-books, and databases that are available through the Library. Most resources are only accessible to UHM faculty, students, and staff.
Web access to over 22,000 books across many subjects. Most titles are cataloged in Hawaii Voyager, but access through this link allows searching the contents of all of the e-books in our subscription. To view a book, first download the free Ebrary reader.
Includes citations for doctoral and master's work from more than 1,000 graduate schools and universities dating back to 1861. More than 750,000 dissertations and theses from 1997 on have been digitized and are available in pdf format. Citations for dissertations from 1980 forward include abstracts.
CTAHR Theses and Dissertations
Searchable database containing over 1,500 citations for CTAHR graduate theses and dissertations starting with the first one in 1914 and continuing through 2001.
Finding Journal Articles
AGRICOLA
via EbscoHost: 1970 - present | Search
Guide (PDF) | AGRICOLA
via NAL (free): 1970 - present
Citations, most with abstracts, for publications in agriculture and related areas such as nutrition, biotechnology, and botany.
American
Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Technical
Library: 1999 -
present
Searchable database of full text of all ASAE technical documents including journals, conference proceedings, standards, technical meetings, and books.
Biological
Abstracts via Web of Knowledge (ISI): 1969 -
present
Citations with abstracts for journal articles covering all aspects of the life sciences dealing with animals (including humans), plants and microorganisms. This is a particularly good database for articles on tropical ecology.
CAB
Abstracts via EbscoHost:
1973 - present | Search
Guide (PDF)
Citations with abstracts to international literature in the agricultural sciences, including tropical agriculture, and related areas of applied biology. This database covers tropical crops and ecology particularly well.
CTAHR Journal Series: 1934 - 2001
Database containing thousands of citations to journal or peer reviewed articles published by CTAHR faculty.
Food
Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA): 1969
- present
Citations with abstracts covering all areas of food science, food technology, and human nutrition, including basic food science, biotechnology, toxicology, packaging, and engineering.
Turfgrass
Information Center File (TGIF): 1968
- present
Citations with abstracts covering all types of works related to turfgrass culture including articles from peer reviewed publications, technical reports and conference proceedings, trade and professional publications, local professional newsletters, and popular magazines as well as monographs, theses and dissertations, fact sheets and brochures, software, and web documents.
Web
of Science (Science Citation Index
Expanded): 1980 - present
Multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the sciences. Allows searching to find papers that have cited a particular paper as well as searching by topic or author.
Floraculture and Foliage Production
American Orchid Society - OrchidWeb
Selecting Orchid Information provides access to descriptions and culture sheets on a wide range of orchid genera.
Commercial Foliage Crop Production Notes
University of Florida site containing foliage plant production guides; guides include information on physiological disorders, diseases and pests.
Hawaii Tropical Flower Council
Contains brief instructions for handling anthuriums, orchids, protea, and tropicals such as gingers and heliconias. Site includes searchable database of growers and shippers of Hawaii's tropical flowers.
Fruit and Other Tree Crops
Full text of Julia F. Morton's book provided by Purdue University's Center for New Crops and Plant Products. There are over 100 chapters covering major and minor tropical fruits ranging from banana and orange to bael and akee. Each chapter is provided as a separate Web page and covers biology, cultivation, harvesting, uses, and food value of the fruit.
The Overstory: International Journal for Agroforestry
Free email journal for practitioners, researchers, professionals, and enthusiasts is archived on this site. Each issue focuses on a concept related to designing, developing, and learning more about trees and agroforestry systems.
Traditional Tree Initiative: Species Profiles for Pacific Island Agroforestry
Species profiles for a wide range of native and traditional trees grown in Pacific island gardens. Profiles are in pdf format and include information on botany, traditional uses, and cultivation.
Ornamental Plants and Landscaping
Annotated Checklist of Cultivated Plants of Hawai‘i
Searchable database of accepted names, synonyms, misapplied names, and common names for plants grown in the Hawaiian Islands.
Provides botanical and horticultural information on cycads. Topics include growing in pots and open ground, propagation, pests and diseases. Includes access to a database of all known cycads developed by the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney from The World List of Cycads.
Hawaiian Native Plant Propagation Database
Searchable and browseable Web site for propagation information on over 70 endemic and indigenous plants.
Plants for the Island of Maui: What and How to Plant in Your Area
From the Maui County Board of Water Supply, this Web page provides access to lists of native and Polynesian plants suitable for 5 different ecological zones on Maui.
Plants for the Island of O'ahu: What and How to Plant in Your Area
From the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, this Web page provides access to lists of landscape and garden plants suitable for 9 different ecological zones on O'ahu.
How to Plant a Native Hawaiian Garden: An On-Line Handbook
Developed by the State of Hawaii Office of Environmental Quality Control, this site is designed to be a handbook for educators, administrators, and others who are interesting in developing a native garden on their school grounds. The site covers a variety of topics pertinent to this type of project, but also contains individual pages for 34 indigeous, endemic, and Polynesian introduced plants.
Practical Guide to Germinating Palm Seeds
This article was originally published in the April 1999 issue of Palms, (formerly Principes) the Journal of the International Palm Society.
Rhapis Palms - Cultivated Species & Varieties: Culture and Care of the "Ladies"
This article was originally published in the July 1989 issue of Principes, the Journal of the International Palm Society. Includes references and images.
Seeds of Native Hawaiian Plants
Two native seed publications are available on this page, Seed Germination Ecology of Hawaiian Native Plants and Seed Storage Practices for Native Hawaiian Plants. Each publication consists of a pdf file and an Excel file. From the Hawaii Conservation Alliance.
Well organized collection of articles on cyad taxonomy, biology, conservation, and horticulture. Includes a photo gallery of cycads. Sponsored by the Palm and Cycad Societies of Florida (PACSOF).
Another well organized collection of articles sponsored by the Palm and Cycad Societies of Florida (PACSOF). Covers palm taxonomy, evolution, conservation, horticulture, and ethnobotany; includes a photo gallery of palms.
Pest and Disease Control
Links to training classes and special local needs registration information; from Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences, CTAHR.
Hawaii Pesticide Information Retrieval System (HPIRS)
Database containing information on pesticides currently licensed for distribution and sale in Hawaii.
From the UH Extension Entomologists and CTAHR Integrated Pest Management Program, this site contains general information on pest hosts, distribution, damage, biology, and management in the form of pest summaries.
Vegetable Crops
Commercial Vegetable Production Guides
From the College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State Universty, includes guides for smany vegetables grown in Hawai'i such as cabbage and other brassicas, melons, onions, corn, beans, peas, lettuce, and other greens.
Web site developed by a partnership of southeastern US farmers and Extension agents; features organic vegetable seed production guides in pdf format.
Other Crops - Beverage, Medicinal, etc.
The purpose of this Web journal from Southern Illinois University is to facilitate publication; this is not a peer-reviewed publication. Each issue contains 10 to 15 short articles on various ethnobotanical subjects. Each article includes a bibliography of print and/or Web sources.
Comprehensive Web site covering botany, horticulture and production, harvesting and processing, marketing, and pests and diseases. The site also includes links to information on the medical aspects of noni use. Prepared by Dr. Scot Nelson, CTAHR, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
General Tropical Horticulture
Access to the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources' free publications in pdf format. Organized by broad subject categories.
CTAHR Publications & Video Tape Database
Searchable database containing thousands of bibliographic citations on CTAHR publications and video tapes; includes links to pdf files for free publications.
Farmer's Bookshelf: Information on Tropical Crop Production in Hawai'i
Covers fruits, home garden vegetables, nutraceuticals, ornamentals, and commercial vegetables. The pages on specific crops are comprehensive; topics dealt with for each crop include: climatic requirements; cultivars; planting; culture; disease and insect control; fertilization; harvesting and handling; and, marketing. Produced by the Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences Department, CTAHR.
EDIS: Electronic Data Information Source of UF/IFAS Extension
Provides searchable access to the large collection of peer-reviewed publications produced by University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agriculture Science.
e-answers: Your Extension Information Source
Provides searchable access to information on a wide range of subjects from Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station professionals at more than 50 U.S. land grant universities.
PEOPLE: Portable Extension Office for Program Literature Exchange
Links to full-text agriculture documents on the Web with an emphasis on tropical island environments.
Created by the University of California at Riverside in conjunction with the National Agricultural Library's AgNIC project, this site provides searchable access to selected subtropical horticulture sites. You can also submit questions to their experts.
Traditional Pacific Island Crops
This AgNIC site provides links to Web resources that deal with the production, marketing, and research aspects of twelve important traditional Pacific Island crops. Created by UH Manoa Library and Agricultural Development in the American Pacific (ADAP) Project.
Citation Styles and Using Endnote
Citing Your Sources in CSE Style (pdf)
A guide to formatting references in the Council of Scientific Editors (CSE) style. To print, select double-sided printing, short-edged binding.
CSE was formerly named the Council of Biology Editors (CBE). The manual is located in the Science & Technology Wing reference section at T11 .S386 2006.
Note: CSE advises including a lot of information in addition to the standard bibliographic elements for Internet based resources, even those with a print format, such as articles found in JSTOR.
Citation Guides & Style Manuals
Links to a selection of Web-accessible style guides.
Endnote: A Bibliographic Management Tool
Endnote bibliographic management software is available as to UH faculty, students, and staff as ITS site licensed software, see Endnote Site License for the form to fill out.
To import citations into an Endnote library from a UHM licensed database, use the Direct Export feature, if available. Otherwise, use the database specific Endnote filter to import your saved search results into your library. Connection files do not work with UHM licensed databases.
Introduction to Endnote (pdf)
A guide to Endnote X1. To print, select double-sided printing, short-edged binding, to create a 3-fold pamphlet.
Related UH Links
Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Last updated on 21 May 2008 (Eileen Herring: eherring@hawaii.edu)