| Notes |
The National Plant
Data Center focuses resources on the acquisition, development, integration, quality
control, dissemination and access of plant information; the NPDC works with partners to
incorporate new plant technology into the agency's automated tools The NPDC is
responsible for the PLANTS database, which focuses on the vascular and nonvascular plants
of the United States and its territories. The PLANTS database includes checklists, species
abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plants symbols, plant growth data,
references and other plant information. PLANTS reduces costs by reducing the duplication
of efforts and by making information exchange possible across agencies and disciplines. |
