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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Welcome to iPlants</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link href="resources/iplants.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript"> <!-- function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0 var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array(); var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++) if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}} } function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0 var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc; } function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01 var p,i,x; if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) { d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);} if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n]; for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document); if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x; } function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0 var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3) if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];} } //--> function MM_goToURL() { //v3.0 var i, args=MM_goToURL.arguments; document.MM_returnValue = false; for (i=0; i<(args.length-1); i+=2) eval(args[i]+".location='"+args[i+1]+"'"); } </script> </head> <body onLoad="MM_preloadImages('resources/buttons/go_button_over.gif','resources/buttons/taxonomy_button_over.gif','resources/buttons/name_button_over.gif')"> <table width="752" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td height="26" colspan="2"> <table border="0"> <tr valign="bottom" align="left" height="26"> <td><a href="index.htm"><img src="resources/images/partnersLogo2.jpg" alt="iPlants intranet - home page" border="0"></a></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr> <td width="139"><a href="index.htm"><img src="resources/template/globe_top.jpg" width="139" height="68" border="0"></a></td> <td><a href="index.htm"><img src="resources/template/iPlants_header.jpg" width="613" height="68" border="0"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="139" rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top" class="navcell"> <a href="index.htm"><img src="resources/template/globe_bot.jpg" width="139" height="54" border="0"></a> <p class="navlevel1"><a href="index.htm" class="linknavlevel2">iPlants Home</a></p> <hr> <div align="center"><a href="http://www.kew.org/wcsp/iplants"><img src="search.gif" border="0"></a></div> <hr> <p class="navlevel1">About iPlants</p> <p class="navlevel2"><a href="Summary_PilotProject.htm" class="linknavlevel2">Pilot</a></p> <p class="navlevel2"><a href="ExtensionGrant.htm" class="linknavlevel2">Extension Grant</a></p> <p class="navlevel2"><a href="Summary_InstitutionalPartners.htm" class="linknavlevel2">Partners</a></p> <p class="navlevel2"><a href="Contributors.htm" class="linknavlevel2">Contributors</a></p> <p class="navlevel2"><a href="ProjectDocuments.htm" class="linknavlevel2">Project Documents</a></p> <p class="navlevel2"><a href="HowtoCiteUs.htm" class="linknavlevel2">How to cite us</a></p> <p class="navlevel2"><a href="HowtoContactUs.htm" class="linknavlevel2">How to contact us</a></p> <p class="navlevel1">Other Information</p> <p class="navlevel2"><a href="http://www.nybg.org" class="linknavlevel2"><font size="-7">The New York Botanical Garden</font></a></p> <p class="navlevel2"><a href="http://www.mobot.org" class="linknavlevel2"><font size="-7">Missouri Botanical Garden</font></a></p> <p class="navlevel2"><a href="http://www.kew.org" class="linknavlevel2"><font size="-7">Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew</font></a></p> <p class="navlevel2"> </p> <p class="navlevel2"> </p> <p class="navlevel2"> </p></td> <td align="left" valign="top"><img src="resources/template/header_corner.gif" width="18" height="20"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" class="bodycell"><span class="titleCell"> <table> <tr> <td width="589" colspan="2"class="homeTitle">Welcome to <em>i</em>Plants</td> </tr> <tr> </table> </span> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <P><B><I>i</I>Plants</B> aims to produce an index of all the world抯 plant species together with, where possible, an image and a preliminary conservation assessment. This index will be made available online. Achieving such a goal requires a collaborative effort among major botanical institutions and the botanical community at large. Currently, three <a href="Summary_InstitutionalPartners.htm">institutional partners</A> are collaborating to develop <B><I>i</I>Plants</B>. A <A href="Summary_PilotProject.htm">pilot project</A> has been completed and project reports are available below. Further development of <B><I>i</I>Plants</B> is continuing and additional funding sources are being pursued..</P> <P><B><I>i</I>Plants</B> will address <A href="Summary_KeyChallenges.htm">key challenges</A> facing the successful management and use of plant biodiversity information. </P> <P>Primarily, <B><I>i</I>Plants</B> is addressing the pressing need for a widely available, consistent and comprehensive working list of all scientific names for plants. It will provide a single stable, authoritative list of "accepted names" each linked to its alternative synonyms. Such a list will enable those that are not trained botanists to access the highly fragmented and significant body of information that exists about plants. </P> <P><B><I>i</I>Plants</B> will thereby also resolve the confusion caused by the existence of alternative, partially conflicting, published taxonomies. Those that use plants in a myriad of economically and environmentally important ways require a single, stable and authoritative reference. There are roughly 422,000 known species of plant and as many as 1,500,000 to 1,700,000 different scientific names are used to refer to them. </P> <P>In addition, <B><I>i</I>Plants</B> is developing a means to automate the preliminary assessment of the conservation status of a particular species based upon specimen information gathered from major collections. </P> <p>To search the <B><I>i</I>Plants</B> pilot checklist data click <a href="http://www.kew.org/wcsp/iplants">here</a>.</p> <p> </p></td> </tr> <tr> </table> </body> </html>