Associations, Authorities, Organizations, & Publications….
UC ANR – See ANR, University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
UKPSF – “The UK Plant Sciences Federation (UKPSF) is a special interest group of the Royal Society of Biology, which aims to bring together the breadth of the UK plant science sector.” (GPC website)
UNPS – “The Utah Native Plant Society is dedicated to the appreciation, preservation, conservation and responsible use of the native plant and plant communities found in the state of Utah and the Intermountain West. Our goal is to foster public recognition of the spectacularly diverse flora of the state–a natural treasure to be valued, respected and protected.”
UpS – “United Plant Savers’ mission is to protect native medicinal plants of the United States and Canada and their native habitat while ensuring an abundant renewable supply of medicinal plants for generations to come. These Are Exciting Times for Herbalists. We are witnessing the art of herbalism rapidly regaining its rightful place in the American tradition of health and healing. However, as herbalism flourishes and winds its way into the “main stream” of America, it is eliciting a unique set of problems and concerns.”
URA – “Uruguay Round Agreements (URA) Act of 1994 — P.L. 103-465 approved and implemented the trade agreements concluded in the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations conducted under the auspices of the GATT, including the Agreement on Agriculture, the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures, and the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT). The law allowed for the reduction of tariffs and government subsidies on agricultural products and prohibits the use of Section 22 fees and quotas with respect to products imported from WTO members. The law also extended the authorization of funding for the Export Enhancement Program (EEP) and Dairy Export Incentive Program (DEIP) through 2001 and eliminated the requirement that the EEP be targeted to respond to unfair trade practices. The law eliminated the requirement that the Market Promotion Program be used to counter the adverse effects of unfair trade practices. The law also included a Sense-of-Congress resolution that the President should consult with other nations to discuss appropriate levels of food aid commitments to developing countries.” (Womach, 2005)
URHP – “The United Register of Herbal Practitioners (URHP) is a leading international register of professional herbal practitioners. We pride ourselves on being an eclectic and friendly organisation with members from several different herbal traditions: we thrive on embracing diversity in the herbal world. A URHP Herbal Practitioner may be practising in Ayurvedic, Western Traditional, Unani Tibb, Tibetan or Traditional Chinese Medicine: they each have their individual strengths and what binds them, and the URHP, together is the recognition of the energetics of herbal medicine. This understanding of energetics is based on recognition of the Vital Force within each living object, be it a person or a herb and using this knowledge to provide a completely individual herbal prescription.”
USB – United Soybean Board
USDA – The United States Department of Agriculture: “We provide leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, and related issues based on public policy, the best available science, and effective management.”
USGRSA – “Uniform Grain and Rice Storage Agreement (USGRSA) — The contractual arrangement governing transactions between the Farm Service Agency and private grain storage companies. Commercial warehouses storing grain under a non-recourse loan or owned by the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) must have a signed USGRSA.” (Womach, 2005)
USGSA – “United States Grain Standards Act (USGSA) of 1916 — P.L. 64-190, as amended (7 U.S.C. 71 et seq.), authorizes the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration to establish official marketing standards (not health and safety standards) for grains and oilseeds, and requires that exported grains and oilseeds be officially weighed and inspected. Domestically marketed grain and oilseeds may be, but are not required to be, officially inspected. Export inspections are carried out by federal inspectors or by federally supervised state inspection agencies, called delegated official inspection agencies. Official inspections of domestically traded grain is done by federally supervised state agencies and private companies, called designated official inspection agencies. Typically, marketing standards describe the physical characteristics (such as weight, damaged kernels, foreign material, shrunken and broken kernels, and defects) of the commodity and serve as contract language to facilitate marketing. Major changes to the law were adopted in the USGSA Amendments of 1968, the USGSA of 1976 (P.L. 94-582), and the Grain Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (P.L. 99-641).” (Womach, 2005)
USNVC – The United States National Vegetation Classification (See also ESA)
Description, Structure, Classification, Ecology, Cultivation,Commercial….
UA – Urban Agriculture
UDALF – soil classification – a kind of Alfisol
UDERT – soil classification – a kind of Vertisol
UDOLL – soil classification – a kind of Mollisol
USULT – soil classification – a kind of Ultisol
UMBREPT – soil classification – a kind of Inceptisol
USTALF – soil classification – a kind of Alfisol
USTERT – soil classification – a kind of Vertisol
USTOLL – soil classification – a kind of Mollisol
Kew Plant Family Abbreviations:
ULM – Ulmaceae – dicot
UMB – Umbelliferae – dicot
URT – Urticaceae – dicot
Genes, Control, Molecules, & Pathways…
UDA – Urtica dioica agglutinin, a lectin
UEA – Ulex europaeus (gorse) agglutinin, a lectin
UNIFOLIATA – gene
UV – Ultraviolet light
Herbaria…
UA – Andalas University, Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia
UB – Universidade de BrasÌlia, BrasÌlia, Distrito Federal, Brasil
UBA – Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
UBC – University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
UC/JEPS – University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley, California
UCHT – University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Herbarium, Chattanooga, Tennessee
UCMM – Herbario Rafael M. Moscoso, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic
UCS – Union College Herbarium Union College “Schenectady, New York”
UCWI – University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
UEC – Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Sâo Paulo, Brasil
UI – Uinta Herbarium Bureau of Land Management, Vernal, Utah
ULF – Herbier Louis-Marie, Université Laval, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
UME – Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
UNB – Connell Memorial Herbarium, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
UNCC – Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation Herbarium, Charlotte, North Carolina
UOS – Sewanee Herbarium Sewanee, The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
UPA – University of Patras, Patras, Greece
UPCB – Departamento de Botânica, Federal University of Paran, Curitiba, Brasil
UPRRP – University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
UPS – Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
URT – Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
US; USNC – United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution, Washington District of Columbia, USA
USCG – University of San Carlos of Guatemala, Guatemala, Guatemala
USCH – A. C. Moore Herbarium, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
USD – Rafael M. Moscoso Herbarium, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
USF – University of South Florida Herbarium,Tampa, Florida
USFS – Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station Forest Service Herbarium, Fort Collins, Colorado
USJ – Herbario Luis A. Fournier, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
USM – Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru
USZ – Herbario del Oriente Boliviano, Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz de la Sierr,a Bolivia
UTC – Intermountain Herbarium, Logan, Utah
UTM – University of Tennessee at Martin, Martin, Tennessee
UVAL – Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala, Guatemala
UVST – Toney Keeney Herbarium, Southwest Texas Junior College, Uvalde, Texas
UWSP – Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
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