Resources

This European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organisation (EPPO) standard specifies the general quality management requirements needed to perform diagnostic tests for plant pests in a laboratory.

This Standard describes a diagnostic protocol for Andean potato latent virus and Andean potato mild mosaic virus. This Standard should be used in conjunction with PM7/76 Use of EPPO diagnostic protocols.

The ALA contains information on all the known species in Australia aggregated from a wide range of data providers: museums, herbaria, community groups, government departments, individuals and universities.

Objective is to advance and disseminate entomological knowledge in all its aspects, particularly but not exclusively, in relation to the Australian fauna.

The APPSnet is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge of plant pathology and its practice in Australasia.

The APPD is a national database of pests and diseases of Australia's economically important plants. You can use the APPD to: rapidly locate voucher specimens and efficiently retrieve detailed data on the existence and geographic location of plant pests; assist with bids for market access and to justify measures to exclude potentially harmful, exotic organisms, help in emergency plant pest management, and support relevant research activities.

BOLD is designed to support the generation and application of DNA Barcode data.

Provides an easily accessible archive of high quality images for use in educational applications.

The Fungal Planet project is intended to facilitate the description of new fungal species.

GenBank is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences. The GenBank database is designed to provide and encourage access within the scientific community to the most up to date and comprehensive DNA sequence information.

The IPNI is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes.

The ISPP promotes the world-wide development of plant pathology and the dissemination of knowledge about plant diseases and plant health management.

Lucid tools are powerful and highly flexible knowledge management software and mobile applications designed to help users with identification or diagnostic tasks.

MycoBank is an on-line database aimed as a service to the mycological and scientific society by documenting nomenclatural novelties and associated data.

Oz Thrips is a diagnostic resource containing identification keys for thrips. You can use Oz Thrips to: view details and photos on thrips known in Australia and elsewhere; identify a species you have through use of an identification key.