• Missouri Botanical Garden Plants in Bloom- Visiting the Missouri Botanical Garden? Check out this timely update on what plants are in bloom right now

• Brooklyn Botanic Garden - Visiting the Brooklyn Botanic Garden? Download these podcasts to get an audio tour, free of cost

• Conversations about Plant Biotechnology - an allegedly biased podcast on the virtues of plant biotechnology (haven’t listened to this yet)

Podcasts of general interest (not plant-specific)

• A Moment of Science(airs Daily) - A very quick podcast snack from Indiana University covering topics of general interest, check out transcripts of previous ‘casts and books at their site.
• Topics for the Week of 10/12: Is a tree related to me?; Transgenic plants attract their own bodyguards; and Algae biofuels.

• The Naked Scientists (airs Sundays) - Fantastic general science podcast from the BBC radio show, includes Kitchen Science experiments and call-in questions.
• Topics for the Week of 11/2: Your Questions and Answers
• Topics for the Week of 11/9: National Pathology Week: How pathologists are helping to treat diseases like MS, and discover more about pathology and pathologists with The Royal Collage of Pathologists’ National Pathology Week events.

• Nature podcast (airs Thursdays) - Podcast with headlines from the British journal Nature. Very accessible and fun. Hosted by Dr. Chris Smith, who also hosts the Naked Scientists.
• Topics for the Week of 11/2: Individual genomes and personal genomics, lemmings threatened by climate change, how to find dark matter, and a news round-up with news editor Mark Peplow

• New Scientist (SciPod) - Latest findings as published in the New Scientist magazine

• Nova Science Now (airs Wednesdays) - Very short nuggets of interest related to the PBS show NOVA
• Topics for the Week of 9/29: Smart birds - Researcher Irene Pepperberg discusses her cognitive experiments with African Grey Parrots.

• Science Friday - Making Science Radioactive (airs Fridays) - Great program from NPR with Ira Flatow, interviews and science news.
• Topics for the Week of 10/31: New Exhibit Showcases ‘Beautiful Science’ at California’s Huntington Library; Vampire Bats And Other Blood-Sucking Creatures; Fungus May Be Culprit In Deadly Bat Epidemic; Video ‘Pick Of The Week’: Dead Hearts; NASA Probe Returns Stunning Views Of Mercury; Michigan Ballot Takes On Stem Cell Research and 5,300-Year-Old Mummy Has No Human Descendants
• Topics for the Week of 11/2: Obama and Science: What’s on the Agenda?

• Science Magazine podcast (airs Fridays) - Covers recent articles in Science Magazine
• Topics for the Week of 10/12: Mapping the movement of all cells during vertebrate development; a bacterium has every genetic component necessary for a single-species ecosystem; the growing complexity, poor management and intense regulation of clinical trials; and more.

• Science Update - Don’t have time to listen to the whole Science podcast? Check out these quick updates of highlighting the latest findings published in Science magazine

• Science Talk (airs Weekly) - from Scientific American magazine, latest science news and interview
• Topics for the Week of 10/30:Cemetery Science: The Geology of Mausoleums.
• Topics for the Week of 11/2: What is in store for environmental policy in the new Obama administration?; The Day After: Science in the Obama administration
  

• Science Times (airs Tuesdays) - interviews and stories from the New York Times
• Topics for the Week of 11/2: Going inside the mind of voters, the Army joins the race for a vaccine and too many chickens, too few breeds.

Free Journals/Magazines

• PLoS Biology this is an open access peer-reviewed journal
• Seed Magazine covers science and culture
• Wired Magazine is more of a technology magazine, but does cover life science from time to time, well written
• Discover Magazine covers general science
• Scientific American covers general science, more technical than Discover

Plant Specific Journals
(require individual or institution subscriptions)

• Plant Journal
• Plant Cell
• Plant Molecular Biology
• Plant Physiology
• Trends in Plant Science
• Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Older Plant Books

• Diet for a dead planet: how the food industry is killing us by Christopher Cook (2006)
• Food, Inc: Mendel to Monsanto–The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest by Peter Pringle (2005)

• Seeds of Change: Five Plants that Transformed Mankind by Henry Hobhouse (2005)
  

• Outgrowing the earth: the food security challenge in the age of falling water tables and rising temperatures by Lester R. Brown (2005)
• The Secrets of Wildflowers: A Delightful Feast of Little-Known Facts, Folklore, and History by Jack Sanders (2003)
• Cultivating delight: a natural history of my garden by Diane Ackerman (2002)
• Forest Giants of the Pacific Coast by Robert Van Pelt (2001)
• The Botany of Desire: A plant’s-eye view of the world by Michael Pollan, Random House (2001)

The Wild Trees: A story of passion and daring by Richard Preston, Random House (2008)

The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession by Adam Leith Gollner, Scribner (2008)

The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants by Peter D’Amato, Berkley Trade (2008)

The Omnivore’s Dilemma:A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan, Penguin (2007)

The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge, Three Rivers Press (2007)

Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens by Douglas Tallamy Timber Press (2007)