The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation

Description: The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation is an independent, nonprofit institute headquartered in Ardmore, Okla. Founded in 1945, the Noble Foundation conducts direct operations, including assisting farmers and ranchers, and conducting plant science research and agricultural programs, to enhance agricultural productivity regionally, nationally and internationally.

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Noble.org has 10 URLs listed in 10 Dmoz categories.

Noble Foundation: Grasses and Grasslike Plants
Features a database with images and summary information for native grasses, indexed by common name, botanical name, and tribe.
http://www.noble.org/webapps/plantimagegallery/grasses.aspx
Top/Home/Gardening/Plants/Grasses_and_Bamboos

The Noble Foundation: Plants Image Gallery
An identification resource that covers plants, grasses, and trees. Information is sorted by common name, scientific name, and by the “family” to which it belongs.
http://www.noble.org/webapps/plantimagegallery/
Top/Kids_and_Teens/School_Time/Science/Living_Things/Plants_and_Trees

The Sumner Group
Focused primarily on functional genomics, using mass spectrometry and multiple separation technologies to profile proteins and metabolites, at the Noble Foundation, Ardmore, OK.
http://www.noble.org/plantbio/MS/
Top/Science/Biology/Biochemistry_and_Molecular_Biology/Products_and_Services/Testing_Services

Noble Foundation Plant Image Gallery
A plant identification resource that covers more than 630 species of trees, grasses, and forbs native to the southern Great Plains.
http://www.noble.org/webapps/plantimagegallery/
Top/Science/Biology/Flora_and_Fauna/Plantae

Agrostis hyemalis
Images of Winter Bentgrass.
http://www.noble.org/imagegallery/grasshtml/WinterBentgrass.html
Top/Science/Biology/Flora_and_Fauna/Plantae/Magnoliophyta/Liliopsida/Poaceae/Agrostis

Brachiaria platyphylla
Images of Broadleaf Signalgrass.
http://www.noble.org/imagegallery/grasshtml/BroadleafSignal.html
Top/Science/Biology/Flora_and_Fauna/Plantae/Magnoliophyta/Liliopsida/Poaceae/Brachiaria

Diospyros texana (The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation)
Photographs and descriptive information about the Texas persimmon.
http://www.noble.org/imagegallery/woodhtml/TexasPersimmon.html
Top/Science/Biology/Flora_and_Fauna/Plantae/Magnoliophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ebenaceae/Diospyros

Diospyros virginiana (The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation)
Photographs of and descriptive information about the American persimmon (Diospyros virginiana).
http://www.noble.org/imagegallery/woodhtml/Persimmon.html
Top/Science/Biology/Flora_and_Fauna/Plantae/Magnoliophyta/Magnoliopsida/Ebenaceae/Diospyros

Sophora affinis
Images and brief description.
http://www.noble.org/imagegallery/woodhtml/TexasSophora.html
Top/Science/Biology/Flora_and_Fauna/Plantae/Magnoliophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabaceae/Sophora

Chittamwood
Images of Sideroxylon lanuginosum, formerly known as Bumelia lanuginosa.
http://www.noble.org/imagegallery/woodhtml/Chittamwood.html
Top/Science/Biology/Flora_and_Fauna/Plantae/Magnoliophyta/Magnoliopsida/Sapotaceae/Sideroxylon