Scott Russell has a mailing list for plant sciences links -- sign
up on his webpage if you're interested. I happen to think this
link page has some interesting things:
February 24, 1999
Medical Botany - A Mini-Course
http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/syllabus/
This mini-course on a USDA server covers the botanical aspects of
ethnobotany and the search for medicinally active phytochemicals.
Pages include an introduction to botany, phytochemicals, formulations,
aromathematic, an Herbalists' Desk Reference, and dangerous herbs.
There are also ethnobotanical pages on American and Amerindian,
Amazonian, African, Arabic, Ayurvedic, Biblical, Chinese, Hawaiian and
European plants. Essentially unillustrated, but there is useful
information here. Site by James A. Duke, The Herbal Village, Fulton,
Maryland. (***1/2) -SR
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From: "Scott D. Russell"
To: BOTLINX@LISTS.OU.EDU
Subject: Scott's Botanical Link of the Day
Date: Fri, Jun 30, 2000, 6:25 AM
June 29, 2000
Plant Ideas, Your Total Plant Information Source
http://plantideas.com/
Plant Ideas is a well laid out gardening/discussion site. For each of
numerous topics, a few links are given on the main page, followed by
detailed links by a curator. The featured topics are numerous
including specialty gardens (Alpine, Annual, Bog, Dry, Herb,
Perennial, Pumpkins, Rose, Vegetable, Water), growing plants indoors
(Bulbs, Cacti, House Plants, Potting Soils, Propagation, Plant
Finder, Succlents, Books/Mags, Garden Store, Garden Links) and the
yeard (The Perfect Lawn, Popular Plants, Soil Prep, Greenhouse Plans
& Info, Compost This!, I Love Insects, Trees Trees Trees, Fence
Designs) and garden catalogs, message boards, and classified ads.
There is a lot of information here for the gardener. (***1/2) -SR
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From: "Scott D. Russell"
To: BOTLINX@LISTS.OU.EDU
Subject: Scott's Botanical Link of the Day
Date: Fri, Jun 30, 2000, 9:32 AM
June 30, 2000
UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Project
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is, according to the site, "an
ecosystem-based strategy that focuses on long-term prevention of pests
or their damage through a combination of techniques such as biological
control, habitat manipulation, modification of cultural practices, and
use of resistant varieties." This requires extensive knowledge of the
pests and the vulnerabilities in their biology. The site has extensive
knowledge banks for common crops, pests and weeds. Means of
controling pests are chosen to minimize risks to human health,
beneficial and nontarget organisms, and the environment. The site has
an encyclopedica amount of information, with links to national
programs. Site by Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources,
University of California. (****) -SR
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From: "Scott D. Russell"
To: BOTLINX@LISTS.OU.EDU
Subject: Scott's Botanical Link of the Day
Date: Thu, Aug 3, 2000, 5:14 PM
August 3, 2000
CERT=AE Coordination Center
http://www.cert.org/
CERT/CC coordinates worldwide responses to computer security threats
caused by viruses and hackers, so if you are a system administrator
for a system, you should bookmark this site now! On site are
advisories addressing all known security flaws, usually with
recommended fixes. CERT was originally an acronym for the computer
emergency response team, but is now a trademark of Carnegie Mellon
University for a wide range of computer security issues. This is an
authoritative site is a critical resource for understanding attack
threats on computers on the Internet, especially servers. (****) -SR
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This is slightly off-topic, but not really. I did my graduate work in
conventional type plant breeding and I keep sending items related to Genetic
Engineering because I'd like to see more people become educated about what
it really is. For one thing, there are too many cases of eco-terrorists who
have destroyed plant breeding projects that had nothing to do with genetic
engineering because they were too uneducated (to put it politely) to know
the difference. I'm hoping that sending material like this to the lists will
get it to some of those people, and also help the rest of the list readers
understand it better at the same time. I am NOT in favor of many of the
uses genetic engineer has been put to, but it CAN be useful in some ways.
And it's better to understand it than to fear it.
-Lon J. Rombough
Grapes, unusual fruits, writing, more, at http://www.hevanet.com/lonrom
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From: "Scott D. Russell"
To: BOTLINX@LISTS.OU.EDU
Subject: Scott's Botanical Link of the Day
Date: Tue, Sep 12, 2000, 8:31 AM
September 11, 2000
Protocols for Recombinant DNA Isolation, Cloning and Sequencing
http://www.genome.ou.edu/protocol_book/protocol_index.html
The book "DNA Isolation and Sequencing" is part of the Essential
Techniques Series, which is now available free online. This
collection of methods, edited by Bruce A. Roe, Judy S. Crabtree and
Akbar S. Khan, combines the best experiences of a major sequencing
lab. In fact, they are part of the team that completed the first human
chromosome. Hosted on Bruce Roe's computer, Dept. of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma. (****) -SR
absolutely right. Ignorance is a very real hazard.
Almost everything that came up suddenly as a Great Savior, turned out to be very
bad in some way.
Remember how wild with delight people were when DDT came out. 'Oh, yes, never
again get moths in your clothes. No more fly problem. Life is easy at last", etc
etc.
There is just nothing manmade/man contrived on this earth that people have not
found in some way able to cause trouble, whether the fault of the people or not.
Satan is still the ruler of this world system, as He said, and every day there is
evidence of the truth of that assertion.
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Tony & Moira Ryan wrote:
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Bargyla Rateaver, PhD
http://home.earthlink.net/~brateaver/bbio.htm
"Lon J. Rombough" wrote:
Lon
I entirely agree. I think it is very important for proper information to
be made available so that people can distinguish between conventional
breeding, which can be safely undertaken with no harm to the ecosystem
and true genetic engineering whose outcomes are still in considerable
doubt and as far as our experience goes at present more likely to damage
nature than improve on it.
One of the major hazards I see with GE is that it has been let loose on
the world at a very early stage in its development while the techniques
are still extremely crude and the results distinctly unpredictable and
often including harmful but unenvisaged side effects.. The most serious
crime it seems to me is in using the world at large as the guineapig,
while experimentation is still at the stage where it should not be let
out of the laboratory (particularly as this has been done quite
blatantly for no motive but profit).
There are of course some pretty sophisticated techniques already
available to the
conventional breeder, but even such manipulations, as for instance
doubling chromosomes to allow seed to form in otherwise sterile crosses,
are only using a technique which can already on occasion occur naturally
and is apparently perfectly safe for the environment. With the warnings
they hear about genetic engineering many people lacking the basic
knowledge of genetics are beginning to look on this and similar
manipulations as examples of GE, which they are emphatically not and
that is where information of the kind you are giving the list is so
important if we are not going to hamper or destroy legitimate and most
useful research by ill-informed action.
Keep up the good work
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan
Wainuiomata (near Wellington, capital city of New Zealand)
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From: "Scott D. Russell"
To: BOTLINX@LISTS.OU.EDU
Subject: Scott's Botanical Link of the Day
Date: Mon, Nov 27, 2000, 7:03 PM
November 27, 2000
Global Warming
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/global_warming.html
This site is a two-page long, informative web collection of facts on
global warming that presents the science, not the politics of global
warming. The site considers the current and past status of
temperatures on earth, what is changing them, what man's role is, fun
facts about CO2, and provides reports and references. Afterward, a web
quiz is presented that examines the major concepts presented. This
site is part of the "Plant Fossils of West Virginia" site (featured
earlier) by Monte Hieb and Harrison Hieb. (****) -SR
Here's something every gardener should know about.
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From: "Scott D. Russell"
To: BOTLINX@LISTS.OU.EDU
Subject: Scott's Botanical Link of the Day
Date: Sun, Dec 10, 2000, 10:47 PM
December 11, 2000
Global Invasive Species Database
http://www.issg.org/database/welcome/
The Global Invasive Species Database allows searches by species,
location and/or plant & animal categories or habitats. Detailled
information is then available by species. The database was developed
by IUCN=92s Invasive Species Specialist Group as a contribution to
Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP). Sponsors include Landcare
Research=97Manaaki Whenua, New Zealand; University of Auckland, New
Zealand; United States=92 Geological Survey and the World Conservation
Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK. (***1/2) -SR
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Invasiveness is where you find it, too. I know of a patch of kudzu that is
more than 15 years old and has not spread and has only increased in size a
few feet. Why? No summer rainfall here, so the soil is too dry for it to
layer the way it does in the South, and spring is too cool for it to get
started until fairly late, so it never sets seed or even blooms. But this
is a specialized case. But don't assume a plant won't be invasive just
because you've never seen a volunteer of it - they can suprise you.
Multiflora roses seemed safe here and for many years I never saw a single
volunteer. Then we had a spring that was just to their liking and years of
seed accumulated in the soil began to grow. Now the plants can be found
coming up. One saving grace - the type planted here was thornless, so just
about all the seedlings have no or only few thorns.
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Thanks, Lon. I've bookmarked it. Was surprised to learn that Lantana is
among the world's 100 worst invasives. Also surprised that my nemesis,
Japanese honeysuckle, isn't on that list. Judging from what it's done to
Fluvanna County, where I live, it's about poised to take over the world.
Pat
Behalf Of Lon J. Rombough
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 10:03 AM
To: OGL@LSV.UKY.EDU
Subject: FW: Scott's Botanical Link of the Day
Here's something every gardener should know about.
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From: "Scott D. Russell"
To: BOTLINX@LISTS.OU.EDU
Subject: Scott's Botanical Link of the Day
Date: Sun, Dec 10, 2000, 10:47 PM
December 11, 2000
Global Invasive Species Database
http://www.issg.org/database/welcome/
The Global Invasive Species Database allows searches by species,
location and/or plant & animal categories or habitats. Detailled
information is then available by species. The database was developed
by IUCN=92s Invasive Species Specialist Group as a contribution to
Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP). Sponsors include Landcare
Research=97Manaaki Whenua, New Zealand; University of Auckland, New
Zealand; United States=92 Geological Survey and the World Conservation
Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK. (***1/2) -SR
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Lantana has taken over much of Australia
Patricia Ruggiero wrote:
> Thanks, Lon. I've bookmarked it. Was surprised to learn that Lantana =
is
> among the world's 100 worst invasives. Also surprised that my nemesis,
> Japanese honeysuckle, isn't on that list. Judging from what it's done =
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Bargyla Rateaver, PhD
http://home.earthlink.net/~brateaver/bbio.htm
should read bromfield on multiflora rose
"Lon J. Rombough" wrote:
> Invasiveness is where you find it, too. I know of a patch of kudzu tha=
t is
> more than 15 years old and has not spread and has only increased in si=
ze a
> few feet. Why? No summer rainfall here, so the soil is too dry for it=
to
> layer the way it does in the South, and spring is too cool for it to ge=
t
> started until fairly late, so it never sets seed or even blooms. But t=
his
> is a specialized case. But don't assume a plant won't be invasive just
> because you've never seen a volunteer of it - they can suprise you.
> Multiflora roses seemed safe here and for many years I never saw a sing=
le
> volunteer. Then we had a spring that was just to their liking and year=
s of
> seed accumulated in the soil began to grow. Now the plants can be foun=
d
> coming up. One saving grace - the type planted here was thornless, so =
just
is
> among the world's 100 worst invasives. Also surprised that my nemesis=
,
> Japanese honeysuckle, isn't on that list. Judging from what it's done=
to
> Fluvanna County, where I live, it's about poised to take over the worl=
d.
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Bargyla Rateaver, PhD
http://home.earthlink.net/~brateaver/bbio.htm
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From: "Scott D. Russell"
To: BOTLINX@LISTS.OU.EDU
Subject: Scott's Botanical Link of the Day
Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2001, 4:04 PM
April 17, 2001
Invasive Plant Council of New York State
http://www.ipcnys.org/
This site provides information about non-native plants that threaten
to change native ecosystems in New York. Featured topics include the
"Top 20" threats, a newsletter, information about membership, research
projects on intervention and restoration, federal policy (a summary of
laws on noxious weeds), a meeting calendar and web links to similar
sites. The plant descriptions in the "Top 20" describe the plants, the
threat that they presents and means to aid in their elimination. Site
by IPCNY. (***) -SR
Thanks for the link, Lon. Being in Ohio, next door, we have many of the same
problems. I'm nearly rid of the honeysuckle and autumn olive that I so
carefully planted 20 years ago because they were supposed to be good for the
birds! I'm afraid I still have a Norway maple, which is harder to disposed
of.
Kris
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From: "Scott D. Russell"
To: BOTLINX@LISTS.OU.EDU
Subject: Scott's Botanical Link of the Day
Date: Wed, Jun 6, 2001, 6:16 PM
June 6, 2000
Cornell Composting
http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/compost/Composting_Homepage.html
Cornell Composting makes the unfathomable mountain of New York State's
food scraps more interesting than you'd think. For chemical and
biological processes of the compost pile are an arena for the study of
microbes, invertebrates, and biodegradation. The Science and
Engineering section of the website opens with a Note to the Casual
Composter then jumps right into hard core biology and engineering
principles. Detailed illustrated text includes Ideas for Student
Projects. Other sections of the site offer information on
self-composting and other weird forms of composting, Cornell's compost
work, information for schools, and a Teacher's Page. Site by Tom
Richard, Nancy Trautmann, Marianne Krasny, Sue Fredenburg and Chris
Stuart, Cornell Waste Management Institute, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY.(****)LF
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From: "Scott D. Russell"
To: BOTLINX@LISTS.OU.EDU
Subject: Scott's Botanical Link of the Day
Date: Thu, Jun 7, 2001, 5:04 PM
June 7, 2000
Phytoestrogens
http://www.som.tulane.edu/ecme/eehome/basics/phytoestrogens/
This page, part of a larger site on environmental estrogens and
hormones discusses the occurrence of phytoestrogens in our food and
whether they may be beneficial or a health risk, either or neither.
Consumers may want to think twice before pouring soy milk on their
wheat or rice cereal, and clearly we are all probably eating a lot
more soy than we realize these days. As the question of whether this
is a good thing or bad thing stimulates more controversy, botanists
will want to know what's being reported by the Center for
Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities, New
Orleans, LA.(****)LF
