Getting started
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Plant tropisms
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Basic article on Plant Tropisms (Just one of many!)
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American Journal of Botany: Volume 100, Issue 1 - Advances in Plant Tropisms
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A "thematic issue of the American Journal of Botany that centers on the tropistic responses to three of the most fundamental environmental stimuli governing plant growth: water, light, and gravity. The issue contains 16 reviews of the current literature and eight original manuscripts that highlight recent advances in the fields, written by a diverse group of international experts in their respective fields."
Warsaw HS resources
Post Grad Academic Resources
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Science.gov - Federal Government Funded Research
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Science.gov provides access to millions of authoritative scientific research results from U.S. federal agencies. Research results include scientific and technical reports, peer-reviewed scholarly publications, digital data, software, conference presentations and proceedings, and other scientific and technical information that federal agencies publish.
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The Plant Journal - Society of Experimental Biology - Wiley Online Library
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"The Plant Journal is an interdisciplinary journal publishing high-quality science addressing the fundamental questions in plant biology, providing new insights into as yet unknown mechanisms and less understood processes." Many articles are available free and open access.
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MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)
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Index of open source, free access, international science journals. (Can limit to the journal "Plants" or search more broadly across all available journals. Some articles are cross indexed in PubMed)
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Springer Nature Link -- Index of Springer published research
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Use Advanced Search and uncheck the box that offers, "Include Preview-Only content"
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Plant Physiology - American Society of Plant Biologists - Oxford Academic
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"Plant Physiology is an international journal that publishes on the broadest aspects of plant biology. [Focus is on] new and fundamental insights into the origins, development, and function of plants from the structural and molecular to the systems and ecophysiology of the whole organism." <?br>Articles available as PDF
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Botanical Society of America - Wiley Online Library
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Publications of the Botanical Society of America -- Articles in these publications are also indexed in other databases described above.
Additional (possibly duplicated) resources
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PubMed Central (PMC)
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(Most content is included in Science.gov -- listed above) </br>"PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)"
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USDA National Agricultural Library
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(Most content is included in Science.gov -- listed above) </br>Open the record for any desired article and scroll down to 'Links' for full text articles that may be available.
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Science Direct
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NOTE: Only a small percentage of articles listed are free and open source.
Tools!
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Wikipedia -- This is a tool, not a resource!
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Do you need help identifying vocabulary for more specific research inquiries? Do you need basic information on your topic? Are you interested in the sources used by Wikipedia authors? Used as a tool for these reasons, Wikipedia can be very helpful. It cannot be used as a source or as a substitute for deeper research in academic writing.
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Currency Authority Relevance Reliability - You need to verify! (C.A.R.R.Y. for success!)
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When searching the Web, consider: Who wrote? Who published? Who benefits? Bias? Accuracy? Authority? Reliability? Relevance? Refer to this tool to identify academic (reliable) resources.
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Noodle Tools
Use for citations -- and for notes if organization is helpful!