Un correo que me llego y qye me parece interesante compartir con todos ustedes; sobre todo la información sobre las claves que piensan instalar para la correcta identificación de plantas
Saludos desde el Norte del Sur July 2005 Identify Life A new project to revolutionise web-based keys. more... Recent release Free upgrade to Fact Sheet Fusion. more... APHIS Lucid coordinator appointed more... Future Lucid workshops Ecuador, Costa Rica, USA. more...New Lucid diagnostic Keys Cantaloupe diseases and Sweetpotato disorders. more... Recent keys available from the CBIT site Australasian Liverworts & Hornworts and Blackberries. more... Forage selection tool more...Recent CBIT releases Short cuts to recently released products. more... Keys to quarantine pests and diseases more... Identify Life - A new project to revolutionise web-based keys The Centre recently obtained a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in California to develop the Key to Life concept, now called Identify Life. The idea is to develop an innovative and flexible means of delivering taxonomic identification services via the Internet, utilising morphological information stored in distributed databases. Identify Life will also provide a mechanism for producing web-based identification keys more rapidly and at much less cost than is currently possible by pooling data from many disparate sources such as printed keys (using the Lucid Phoenix software tool), published and unpublished taxonomic databases, phylogenetic data files and natural language descriptions into a web-service database. The Centre will soon launch a web site as one means of facilitating international collaboration in this venture. Click here for more information about this project APHIS Lucid coordinator appointed The Centre for Plant Health Science and Technology (CPHST) within the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) in the USA has appointed Dr. Terrence Walters as the Lucid Coordinator for CPHST. Based at the National Weed Management Laboratory, Fort Collins, Colorado, Terrence will provide support to the team of key developers within APHIS and the US Department of Agriculture involved in developing keys for APHIS identifiers. Terrence is an experienced plant taxonomist he was previously executive director of Montgomery Botanical Center (MBC) in, Miami, Florida, where he was also the institutions archivist and cycad scientist. During his 10 years at the Centre, MBC developed the worlds largest scientifically-documented population-based ex situ collection of palms and cycads. CBIT has had a contract with CPHST-APHIS since March 2002 to provide Lucid software, training and support. During that time CPHST has commissioned the development of over 14 Lucid keys. With Terrence joining the team, the development and use of Lucid is likely to show a marked increase. New Lucid diagnostic keys Two new Lucid3 keys have recently been produced for diagnosing problems in crops both of which are available on the Internet. Note: To access both keys you need to have installed a free version of Java Runtime Environment (Java download). Key to Post-harvest Diseases for Cantaloupe This key, which was developed by Gerald Holmes at North Carolina State University, USA, enables the user to identify 24 cantaloupe fruit diseases encountered post-harvest. Click here to access the key. Sweetpotato DiagNotes This product is an interactive tool for extension workers, students, researchers and others who want to learn about the sweetpotato crop; about the pest, disease and other problems that can occur; how to diagnose crop symptoms and what management practices can be used to deal with sweetpotato disorders. The interactive (Lucid3) key contained in this product allows users to diagnose or at least make a short list of possible problems occurring in a sweetpotato crop. The key covers over 80 sweetpotato insect and mite pests, nematodes, diseases, nutrient and other disorders. The combination of text descriptions and over 700 images helps users in the process of diagnosing their problems. Click here to access the key. This key was developed at the The University of Queensland, in collaboration with Leyte State University ( Philippines), the International Potato Center (Indonesia), and a number of other, international collaborators, and funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). Forage selection tool Forage research over the last 50 years has identified many useful tropical grasses and legumes. Information on their adaptation and use has resided in peer-reviewed literature, research reports with limited distribution and, most importantly, in the memories of forage agronomists with decades of experience. An international project, funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research and other donor agencies has brought this information together in the form of a selection tool based on CBITs Lucid3 software. The Lucid3 database contains information sheets on the adaptation, use and management of over 200 forage species, cultivars and elite accessions; a collection of photographs and images of species to help in their identification and use; and a bibliography of more than 6,000 references and abstracts. The rules of the Lucid3 selection tool are based on the experiences of more than 50 forage specialists who have worked for many years in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Tropical USA, Central and South America, South and South-east Asia and Australia. Users of the tool can access this expertise to determine the most suitable species and cultivars for specific sites, based on 19 criteria, including such factors as rainfall, altitude, soil texture, fertility and pH, and intended use. You can access this tool at http://www.tropicalforages.info Note: You need to have installed a free version of Java Runtime Environment to run Lucid3 (Java download). More information about this project is available in pdf Keys to quarantine pests and diseases CBIT, together with Terrence Walters, the newly appointed Lucid coordinator for APHIS (See APHIS Lucid coordinator appointed), has compiled a list of Lucid keys of relevance to plant health and quarantine. These keys, which are either already available or still in development, are mostly being produced in the US, Australia and New Zealand. We hope that the lists will help facilitate further international collaboration in the development and use of Lucid keys for quarantine and plant health. Lucid keys of direct relevance to quarantine pdf Lucid keys of indirect relevance to quarantine pdf Recent release - Free upgrade to Fact Sheet Fusion Fact Sheet Fusion, a tool to facilitate the rapid generation of standardised fact sheets in HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) or XML (eXtensible Markup Language), was released earlier this year. There is now a new free upgrade of this software for those who have already purchased Fact Sheet Fusion. For more about Fact Sheet Fusion, go to http://www.lucidcentral.org/fusion/ To access the free upgrade, click here and log in. Future Lucid Workshops - Ecuador, Costa Rice, USA As part of the Moore Foundation project to provide and support Lucid software in developing countries, the Centre will be facilitating two workshops in South and Latin America during August and September this year. The first workshop will be held in Ecuador from the 30th August to the 1st September. For further details about the workshop, please contact Dr Hugo Navarrete ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The second workshop will be in Costa Rica from the 6th to the 8th September. For further details about this workshop, please contact Dr Enrique Castro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Later in the year, CBIT staff will join Dr Terrence Walters in facilitating a series of Lucid workshops across the USA, primarily for those associated with the development of keys for quarantine purposes. Please contact Terrence at [EMAIL PROTECTED] New keys available from the CBIT site Click on the titles below for more information on these products that can be purchased from the CBIT online shop. Australasian Liverworts and Hornworts the first comprehensive key to all 181 genera of liverworts and hornworts in Australia and New Zealand Blackberry - An identification tool to introduced and native Rubus in Australia Other recent products: Can be purchased from the CBIT online shop at http://shop.cbit.uq.edu.au/ Fact Sheet Fusion a software tool to facilitate the rapid generation of standardised fact sheets in HTML or XML Declared Plants of Australia over 900 weed species included, with detailed information on all the declared plants (noxious weeds) in Australia Pest Thrips of the World a key to almost 100 pest thrips, with information on molecular diagnostics (in English, German and Spanish) Coral ID a key to 794 species of hard corals world-wide Contact Us If you require further information please contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do not wish to receive this newsletter, you can update your profile and deselect the "newsletters" option. 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