Crown Jewel of the Aggie Horticulture Network; the largest information server containing files related to teaching, research, extension and public service. Operational since October, 1994, this server has grown from serving 10,000 hits/month to its current average of over 6,000,000 hits/month (high monthly total, 7.5 million). Home of the popular gardening information site PLANTanswers.
Extension Horticulture
A server designed to support the information serving needs of off-campus extension personnel, state-level as well as county-level. An integrated FTP server permits remote home page management.
Master Gardener Server
Mastergardener.tamu.edu is a Web site devoted to the International Master Gardener Conference and the Texas Master Gardener Program; it contains information and links of interest to gardeners everywhere.
Junior Master Gardener
The newest server in the Network, juniormastergardener.tamu.edu serves the newly developed Junior Master Gardener Program, a site devoted to the needs of children and those with whom they work.
Horticulture Server
Operated on a Macintosh operating system, this server runs the forms utility that allows fill-in publishing of newsletters. The Phantom search robot on this server provides full text search capabilities for all servers in the network. This server also supports the Cyberconference activity conducted in cooperation with Branch Smith Publishing and the Nursery/Floral Crops Extension Program.
The Horticulture Database Server is a FileMaker 5.0 Unlimited database/web server running on a 400 mhz Macintosh G4. Over 30 databases are being served, including the Texas Native Trees, Ornamental PicturePages, hortIPM, and Aggies for Hire databases.
hortIPM
hortIPM provides comprehensive information exclusively about Integrated Pest Management. hortIPM includes information pages, and a searchable database of IPM control options.
Vegetable Improvement Center
The information server of the Vegetable Improvement Center, the VIC web site describes the releases of Dr. Leonard Pike's onion, carrot, and cucumber breeding programs. The site is managed by Connie Sebesta.
AggieSpuds
The information server of the Texas A&M Potato Breeding program; this server also hosts the Web site of the Potato Association of America. The Webmaster of this server is Anna Johnson.
Webtutor
Webtutor hosts the Web-based course and supports the TTVN course, Horticulture 605, Internet Technology for Horticulture. Includes integrated FTP service to support remote Web site creation and management by students in the class.
Phytochemicals
Information server maintained in support of the distance education-delivered course organized by Dr. Bhimu Patil, Texas A&M University-Kingsville Citrus Center, that covers the relationship between human health and the foods we eat.
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