Sunday, April 20, 2008

Possible sources of Information for Year 11 Germination Unit


Online Journals

1. KCC Library databases. These are found on the Library Home page KCC Library Home page
The most useful sites could includethe following:
(Please note that these may only conect while you are at school. To connect from home through your own internet you may need to see a librarian for user names and passwords.)

a. Expanded Academic
b. Ebsco Aust/NZ Reference Centre
c. UQL Cyberschool
d. Gold Coast City Council Library (You will need to have your user name and password. Open "online resources" and use one of the Science databases including ProQuest science journals)

For more advanced research try these online resources- only some will be full text.

http://www.amjbot.org/searchall/ A huge list of scientific, medical and informational journals with search facilities and some full text articles available

http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/search?fulltext=germination Search this site some full text articles available


Internet sites

Salinity

http://www.ndsp.gov.au/ Dryland national salinity program

http://www.dnr.nsw.gov.au/salinity/solutions/solutions_book04.htm#pastures Establishing trees and shrubs in saline areas

http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/56/419/2365 Article - Salt tolerance in wild Hordeum species is associated with restricted entry of Na+ and Cl– into the shoots (Australian)

http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/96/3/399 Article - Strategies for Adaptation of Suaeda physophora, Haloxylon ammodendron and Haloxylon persicum to a Saline Environment During Seed-Germination Stage

http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/abstract/84/1/104 Article - Relationships Between Seed Germinability of Spergularia marina (Caryophyllaceae) and the Formation of Zonal Communities in an Inland Salt Marsh

http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/abstract/84/1/104 Article - The effect of extended exposure to hypersaline conditions on the germination of five inland halophyte species

http://www.ndsp.gov.au/library/scripts/objectifyMedia.aspx?file=pdf/37/18.pdf&siteID=5&str_title=PN020370_p10_13.pdf
Article - Challenge of rehabilitating a saline site ultimately rewards.

Heat, Fire, Smoke

http://www.biology.iastate.edu/intop/1Australia/Australia%20papers/FireEcologyEucalypts.htm
Article - Fire ecology of Australian Eucalypts

http://www.rirdc.gov.au/pub/shortreps/sr48.htm Article - Smoke is key to germinating native flora seeds

http://asgap.org.au/APOL24/dec01-4.html Article - Promotive effects of smoke on seed dormancy (Australian)

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/enviro/EnviroRepublish_1147171.htm
Article - Smoke reveals mystery of how seeds sprout

http://www.amjbot.org/ Article - Role of warm stratification in promoting germination of seeds of Empetrum hermaphroditum (Empetraceae)

http://www.csu.edu.au/special/bushfire99/papers/downey/
Article - Fire can stimulate the germination of some weed seeds with hard seed coats

Cold

http://www.aff.org.au/Johnson_Solanum_final.pdf Article - Factors affecting seed germination are. discussed together with ... grassy woodland and forest species: effects of smoke, heat, darkness and cold.

http://www.pssc.ttu.edu/plantprop/lecnotes/section2/topic7.htm Article - Seed germination and dormancy.

Seed size

http://www.amjbot.org/ Article - Only seed size matters for germination in different populations of the dimorphic Tragopogon pratensis

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