The rational of the plant biology advice site is to offer useful advice for all people with an interest in plants, ranging from the enthusiastic amateur, through to plant biology students and post-doctoral research scientists.
Some of our most popular pages
The top 100 American Colleges and Universities are available on our first PBA Best 100 college list.
Our guide on how to grow sunflowers
How does Georgia University Rank
in the USA
Growing Pearl Grass
The plant biology advice web site is split into four main sections.
Plant biology guide
The Plants Guide aims to give in depth advice and articles about all aspects of botany taught at university. It is aimed at a high level, typical to that which you may encounter in your studies at university. The plant biology guide presently features articles on Leaf Senescence; Flowering time; Phytochromes; Cytokinins; Stomatal development; Vitamin biosynthesis and Microarrays. It is planned to add new articles at regular intervals to cover a broad range of topics.
Gardening and Flowers
The second section Garden Flowers is aimed at people who have an interest in gardening. It includes pictures of well loved flowers such as African lilies and sunflowers, and information on how to grow over 500 species of common garden plants such as Freesia.
A feature of the gardening and flower section is that it gives detailed information of the best time to sow out seeds, ensuring that your garden will reach its full potential. It is hoped that by reading the plant biology gardening guide that you will be able to produce beautiful flowers.
If you have grown a fantastic looking specimen and would like it displayed on this site, then please send me an email, via the contacts page, and I'll get it online in the relevant species page as soon as I can. Information on growing plants such as the peruvian lily can be found by using the garden plants index or by use of the list of scientific name of plants. If you have an interest in either the coffee or tea plants then you should check out the time for coffee site.
The 'how to grow garden flowers' section is now finished and can be accessed alphabetically from the table below.
Plant biology university rankings
The third section University Rankings is aimed at furthering your career in plant science. It includes the ranking of the top 500 universities in the world, Great britain, and the American College Rankings top American universities. In the future rankings of the top institutions will be added. We now have available the first PBA Best 100 college list.
The aim is to adjust the university rankings so that they are based on the number of plant biologists working at the university. Not only is this a listing of the best institutions it also gives the university address of the establishment. When you click on a university address name you are taken to a page with details on the institute and a list of all the people who work in the botany field there.
Plant molecular biology lab methods
The final section Molecular biology Laboratory Methods gives information about techniques typically employed in biological labs today. The methods that are described range from basic techniques like pouring agarose gels, to advanced techniques such as EMS Mutagenesis, real-time PCR, Northern Blotting, and microarray analyses. It is hoped to expand this section to include molecular biology protocols in the near future.
Plant biology aims
The eventual aim of the plant biology advice site is to be a one-stop point of call for all people with a love of botany, whether scientific or for pleasure. We feel that the university rankings and gardening advice offered will be of great general use and hope that you enjoy your visit to the site; whether you need to know how to grow a kiwi fruit or chinese gooseberry or choose the best European university from the rankings we hope to be of service. Please feel free to contact me with ideas for the plant biology site. Unfortunately I can not deal with personal queries at the moment due to a heavy work load.