Biotech Updates

Online Guide for Identifying Fruits and Seeds

March 9, 2007

The United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) is providing a database to help identify the world’s many fruits and seeds. The database, containing 418 families of seed plants, and more than 300 morphological characters, can be queried to obtain information about a particular family, a group of families, or the characters used.

To access the database please go to http://nt.ars-grin.gov/sbmlweb/OnlineResources/frsdfam/Index.cfm.
The complete press release is at http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2007/070308.htm.