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Bibliography

Listed below is a bibliography of reference works, databases, thesauri and Internet sites that were used in the preparation of the thesaurus and glossary. This bibliography does not include all texts. Descriptors are chosen for their literary warrant in the U.S. agricultural literature. Authoritative works, e.g., Enzyme Nomenclature, were consulted as needed, however the recommendations of ARS scientists are the definitive source of accepted terminology

Adams, Raymond D., Maurice Victor, and Allan H. Roper. Principles of neurology, 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.

Alberts, Bruce et al. Molecular biology of the cell, 3rd ed. New York: Garland, 1994.

Allaby, Michael, ed The concise Oxford dictionary of botany. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Allaby, Michael, ed. The concise Oxford dictionary of ecology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

American heritage dictionary of the English language, 4th ed. Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

Ammer, Christine and Dean S. Ammer. Dictionary of business and economics, rev. and ex. ed. New York: Macmillan, Free Press, 1984.

Bartleby.com [database online]. http://bartleby.com/

Beckman, David, Marc J. Cohen, and Eileen Kennedy. "World hunger: position of American Dietetic Association" J Am Diet Assoc. 95 (1995):1160-1162. http://www.mindfully.org/Food/World-Hunger-ADA.htm

Bender, Malcolm. Environmental and scientific glossary. photocopy. 1997. 537 pp.

Biomass Research & Development Initiative. Definitions of terms. [database online] Washington: Biomass Research & Development Initiative. http://www.bioproducts-bioenergy.gov/definition.html

BioTech life science dictionary [database online]. BioTech Resources Web Project. Indiana Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology. http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html

Brady, Nyle C. The nature and properties of soils, 10th ed. New York: Macmillan, 1990.

Braum, U., E. Schicker, and B. Hornlimann. "Diagnostic reliability of clinical signs in cows with suspected bovine spongiform encephalopathy." Veterinary Record 143 (4) (July 1998): 101-105.

Breeds of Livestock [database online]. Stillwater: Dept. of Animal Science, Oklahoma State University. http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/

Budavari, Susan, ed. The Merck index: an encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals, 11th ed. Rahway, NJ: Merck, 1989.

Buffer strips: Common sense conservation [database online]. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. http://www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/CCS/Buffers.html

Burns, George W. and Paul J. Bottino. The science of genetics, 6th ed. Prentice-Hall, 1989.

Cambridge dictionaries online [database online]. Cambridge University Press. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. The food defect action levels, rev. [webpage]. Washington: U.S. Food and Drug Administration. http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dalbook.html

Cohen, David H. et al. A new taxonomy of wood products. FRDA Working Paper #96.05. Victoria, BC: Can. Forest Ser., 1996.

Committee on Common Names of Insects. Common Names of Insects and Related Organisms. Entomological Society of America. Online database: http://www.entsoc.org/Common/common.htm

Copping, L. G. and J. J. Menn. Biopesticides: a review of their action, applications and efficacy. Pest Management Science. West Sussex, UK: Wiley, 2000. v. 56 (8) p. 651-676.

"Celiac disease." In Allergy glossary [database online]. Health on the Net Foundation. http://www.hon.ch/Library/Theme/Allergy/Glossary/
celiac_disease.html

"Chronic wasting disease." In Hunting [website]. Colorado Division of Wildlife. http://wildlife.state.co.us/hunt/HunterEducation/chronic.asp

Dairy herd fertility. London: H.M.S.O., 1984.

Dark, Graham. On-line medical dictionary. [database online] n.p.: Academic Medical Publishing, distributed by CancerWEB. http://www.graylab.ac.uk/omd/index.html

Dent, David R. and Rosy Allcott, eds. Pest management glossary [database online]. Pest Management Resource Centre. http://www.pestmanagement.co.uk/library/glossary.html

Devlin, Thomas M., ed. Textbook of biochemistry with clinical correlations, 3rd ed. New York: Wiley-Liss, 1992.

Dictionary.com [database online] Lexico LLC. http://www.dictionary.com

Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary, 26th ed. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1981.

Environmental Protection Agency. Terms of Environment: Glossary, Abbreviations and Acronyms. EPA# 175-B-97-001. Internet Resource.

Farr, David F. et al. Fungi on plants and plant products in the United States. St. Paul, MN: American Phytopathological Society, 1989.

Fehr, Walter R. Principles of cultivar development. New York: Macmillan, 1987.

Forage and Grazing Terminology Committee. Terminology for grazing and grazing animals. Blacksburg, VA: Pocahontas Press, 1991.

GardenWeb glossary of botanical terms [database online]. Virtual Mirror. http://glossary.gardenweb.com/glossary/

General environmental multilingual thesaurus (GEMET) [database online]. European Topic Center on Catalogue of Data Sources. http://www2.mu.niedersachsen.de/cds/GEMET/GemAlph.pdf

Global change electronic edition glossary [database online]. Oakland, CA: Pacific Institute. http://www.globalchange.org/glossall/gloindex.htm

Glossary of food-related terms [database on-line]. International Food Information Council Foundation. http://ific.org/glossary/

Glossary of futures and options terminology [database online]. Extracted from the Commodity Trading Manual. Chicago: Market Development Department, Chicago Board of Trade. http://www.cbot.com/cbot/www/page/0,1398,14+54,00.html

Glossary of genetic terms [database online]. Bethesda, MD: National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health. http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/DIR/VIP/Glossary/pub_glossary.cgi

Glossary of thoroughbred terms [database online]. National Thoroughbred Racing Association. http://www.ntra.com/press/glossary/glossary.html

Glossary of water-related terms [database online]. Tucson, Water Resources Research Center, University of Arizona. http://ag.arizona.edu/AZWATER/reference/glossary
/noframe.html

Goff, H. D. Dairy science and technology: Education series [database online]. University of Guelph. http://www.foodsci.uoguelph.ca/dairyedu/home.html

GRIN taxonomy [database online]. Beltsville, MD: Germplasm Resources Information Network. http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/tax/index.html

Harborne, Jeffrey B. and Herbert Baxter, eds. Phytochemical dictionary: A handbook of bioactive compounds from plants. London: Taylor & Francis, 1993.

Hawksworth, D. L et al. Ainsworth & Bisby's dictionary of the fungi, 8th ed. Wallingford: CAB International, 1995.

Heeter, Robert F., ed. Conventional fusion FAQ glossary [database online]. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/fusion-faq/glossary/

Helms, John A., ed. Dictionary of forest science, technology, practice and products, rev. ed. Bethesda, MD: Society of American Foresters, 1998.

HungerWeb [database online]. Providence, RI: World Hunger Program. http://www.brown.edu/Departments/World_Hunger_Program/

International dictionary of medicine and biology. New York: Wiley & Sons, 1986.

International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Nomenclature Committee. Enzyme nomenclature 1992. San Diego: Academic Press, 1992.

ITIS data access [database online]. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.usda.gov/itis_query.html

Johnson, R.T and C.J. Gibbs, Jr. "Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and related transmissible spongiform encephalopathies." N Engl J Med. (1998): 339(27), 1994-2004.

King, Robert C., and William D. Stansfield. A dictionary of genetics, 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Lackie, J.M. and J.A.T. Dow, eds. The dictionary of cell biology, 2nd ed. London, Academic Press, 1995.

Lawrence, Eleanor. Henderson's dictionary of biological terms, 10th ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1989.

Lehninger, Albert L. Principles of biochemistry. New York: Worth Publishers, 1982.

MaizeDB: Maize cooperation in genomics and genetics [database online]. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. htp://www.agron.missouri.edu/index.html

Managing manure nutrients at concentrated animal feeding operations, draft guidance. EPA-821- R-01-017. Washington: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water Programs. http://www.epa.gov/region08/water/wastewater/
cafohome/cafodownload/cafodocs/PNPGuide_bookmarked.PDF

Materials science and engineering for the 1990s: Maintaining competitiveness in the age of materials. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1989.

McCarthy, Justin. A+ materials science and engineering : Glossary of terms [database online]. http://www13.brinkster.com/justinmc/glossary/

Medical subject headings (MeSH). [database online] Bethesda, Md.: National Library of Medicine.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html

Merck veterinary manual: a handbook of diagnosis, therapy, and disease prevention and control for the veterinarian, 6th ed. Rahway, NJ: Merck, 1986.

Merryweather, Linda, compiler. Food science and technology abstracts (FSTA) thesaurus. Reading, UK: International Food Information Service, 1996.

Morris, Christopher, ed. Academic press dictionary of science and technology. Sandiego: Academic Press, 1992.

NCBI taxonomy homepage [database online]. Bethesda, MD: National Center for Biotechnology Information. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html/index.cgi

Nebel, Bernard J. and Richard T. Wright. Environmental science: the way the world works, 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1996.

Parker, Sybil P., ed. McGraw-Hill dictionary of scientific and technical terms, 4th ed. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1989.

Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, Héctor Espinosa-Pérez, Lloyd T. Findley, Carter R. Gilbert, Robert N. Lea, and James D. Williams. Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada. 6th Edition. Bethesda, MD: American Fisheries Society, 2004.

Penn state agromedicine [database online] Penn State Hershey Medical Center. http://www.hmc.psu.edu/agromedicine/

PLANTS Database, Version 3.1 [database online]. Baton Rouge, LA: National Plant Data Center. http://plants.usda.gov

Potentially hazardous foods: Minnesota Food Code fact sheet [Webpage]. St. Paul: Minnesota Dept. of Agriculture, Dairy and Food Div.
http://www.mda.state.mn.us/DairyFood/factsheets/hazrds.html

Quinion, Michael. World wide words [database online].
http://www.quinion.com/words/weirdwords/ww-uma1.htm

Radostits, O.M. et al. Veterinary medicine: A textbook of the diseases of cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, and horses, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Bailliere Tindall, 1994.

The Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. New York: Random House Information Group,1997.

Rieger, Rigomar, Arnd Michaels, and Melvin M. Green. Glossary of genetics: Classical and molecular, 5th ed. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1991.

Rosen, Fred S., Lisa A. Steiner, and Emil R. Unanue. Dictionary of immunology. New York: Elsevier, 1989.

Sikorowski, P.P. and A. M. Lawrence. Major diseases of Heliothis virescens and Helicoverpa zea in Mississippi fields and insectaries. Techincal Bulletin 218, Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, Mississippi State University Extension Service.

Singleton, Paul and Diana Sainsbury. A dictionary of microbiology and molecular biology, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, 1993.

"Some basics on BLAD." In Holstein-Friesian Association of Australia. [webpage online] Flemington, AU: Holstein-Friesian Association of Australia, 2001.
http://holsteinaust.une.edu.au/genetic%20awareness/Blad.html

Soule, James. Glossary for horticultural crops. New York: John Wiley, 1985.

Stedman, Thomas Lathrop. Stedman's medical dictionary, illustrated. 25th ed. Edited by William R. Hensyl. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1990.

Stoskopf, Neal C. with Dwight T. Tomes and B. R. Christie. Plant breeding: Theory and practice. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993.

Stufflebeam, Charles E. Genetics of domestic animals. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989.

Swiader, John M., George W.Ware, and J.P. McCollum. Producing vegetable crops, 4th ed. Danville,IL: Interstate Publishers, 1992. Terms of environment, rev. ed. [database online]. Washington:US EPA Office of Communications, Education and Public Affairs.
http://www.epa.gov/OCEPAterms

Thesaurus of pulp and paper terminology. Atlanta, GA: Institute of Paper Science and Technology, 1991.

Torre-Bueno, J. R. de la. The Torre-Bueno glossary of entomology, rev. ed. Compiled by Stephen W. Nichols; including Supplement A by George S. Tulloch. New York: New York Entomological Society in cooperation with the American Museum of Natural History, 1989.

U.S. Department of Education. Thesaurus of ERIC descriptors, October 2000. Lanham, MD: Computer Sciences Corp. for U.S. Dept. of Education, 2000.

U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environment, Safety and Health. Dictionary and thesaurus of environment, safety and health. Boca Raton, FL: C.K. Smoley, 1992.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Underground Storage Tanks. How to evaluate alternative cleanup technologies for underground storage tank sites; A guide for corrective action plan reviewers (EPA 510-B-95-007) Washington: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1995. http://www.epa.gov/swerust1/pubs/tums.htm

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. Foodborne pathogenic microorganisms and natural toxins handbook: The bad bug book. http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html

USP dictionary of USAN and international drug names: The authorized list of established names for drugs in the United States of America, 2001 ed. Rockville, MD:U.S. Pharmacopeia, 2001.

van Regenmortel, M. H. V. et al, eds. Virus taxonomy: Classification and nomenclature of viruses, seventh report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. San Diego: Academic Press, 2000.

Weeden, Cathy R. et al, eds. Biological control: A guide to natural enemies in North America [database online]. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University.
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol/glossary.html

Welch, Tom. Money words: empowerment venue [database online]. Tom Welch's MoneyWords.Com http://www.moneywords.com/

West, Geoffrey P. Black's veterinary dictionary, 15th ed. London: A & C Black, 1985.

Wheat facts: The internet source for small grains growers [database online]. Red Lake Falls, MN: Minnesota Assn. of Wheat Growers. http://www.smallgrains.org/
Toolshed/Wheat_Facts/wheat_facts.htm

Willis, Malcolm B. Dalton's introduction to practical animal breeding, 3rd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Pub., 1991.

Winburne, John N., ed. Dictionary of agricultural and allied terminology. Michigan State University Press, 1962.

Worthing, Charles R. and Raymaon J. Hance, eds. The pesticide manual: A world compendium, 9th ed. Farnham, Surrey: British Crop Protection Council, 1991.

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