Open Educational Resources (OER)

From Growing to Biology: Plants 1e brings the latest information for understanding of traditional and modern plant growing, form, and production.

An approachable guide to the fundamentals of plant science. Created for horticulture students, gardeners, science teachers, and anyone interested in understanding plants and how they grow.

Inanimate Life is an open textbook covering a very traditional biological topic, botany, in a non-traditional way.

History and Science of Cultivated Plants narrates how humans transitioned from foragers to farmers and have arrived at present-day industrial agriculture-based civilization.

This textbook provides an introduction to plant genetics and biotechnology for the advancement of agriculture.

Permaculture Design is a method of land planning that can be applied at scales from the home garden to city block to village to farm.

This text is being developed through a collaboration between Colorado State University and the United States Department of Agriculture.

This first edition is an editable, open access learning resource with interactive web based experiences customized for horticulture students studying plant identification.

The manual highlights the multidisciplinary aspects of soil science with laboratories focused on soil formation, classification, and mapping; soil physics, soil biology; soil chemistry; and soil fertility and management.

This project aims to provide a complete guide for the CE/AREN 3143 course (Properties and Behavior of Soil) at the University of Texas Arlington. Video demonstrations of lab processes accompany each chapter.

The goals for this textbook are to create an up-to-date resource for soil and water conservation students and practitioners.

This course explores the basic structure and function of plants.

Lessons, animations, and other educational materials related to agriculture, horticulture, plant physiology, and other topics.

Virtual Soil Science Learning Resources (VSSLR) group is focused on developing innovative, OER for a variety of undergraduate and graduate natural resource courses and programs.

Graphics, videos, and short descriptions of the soil formation process. The website includes information on landscape evolution, soil formation, parent materials, soil landscapes, and more.

This online resource includes images, videos, and short articles about the forest floor.

This book was created to support teaching of an introductory unit on plant environmental physiology. It makes use of various images of cells and tissues to introduce and illustrate the range of plant organelles, cells, tissues and organs.