8.3 Plants

Science and Plants for Schools - from University of Cambridge
http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/

Fast plants teaching resources - from CSIRO
http://www.csiro.au/csiro/content/standard/ps1gj.html

Laboratory Review Lessons (Botany 130) - from University of Wisconsin, pdf files covering plant cells, photosynthesis, plant structure and genetics
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/courses/botany_130/Laboratory.html

Education Programs - from Plant Energy Biology, ARC Centre of Excellence
http://www.plantenergy.uwa.edu.au/education/index.html

Flora of Australia: GLOSSARY - from Australian National Botanic Gardens
http://www.anbg.gov.au/glossary/webpubl/splitgls.htm

Soil, Earth's Living Skin - from CSIRO Land and Water, Student pages
http://www.clw.csiro.au/education/soils/

Factors Affecting the trace mineral composition of feedstuffs - from Salt Institute, best viewed with Print Preview
http://www.saltinstitute.org/STM-6.html

WHAT IS PLANT NUTRITION? - from The Orchid House
http://retirees.uwaterloo.ca/~jerry/orchids/nutri.html

Grouping Plants by Form and Function - from Brooklyn Botanic Garden
http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/botany/parts_grouping.html

Flower, Leaf and Plant Forms: Illustrations 1 - from Florida Gardener web site
http://www.floridagardener.com/pom/plantforms.htm

Flower, Leaf and Plant Forms: Illustrations 2 - from Florida Gardener web site
http://www.floridagardener.com/pom/plantforms2.htm

Shedding Light on Photosynthesis - from Chemical and Engineering News
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/83/i14/8314notw1.html

Environmental Biology - Ecosystems - click on BioGeoChemical Cycles, (Water, Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorous cycles from Marietta College USA
http://www.marietta.edu/%7Ebiol/102/ecosystem.html

Interpreting Soil & Plant Tissue Tests - includes Soil Micronutrients, Soil Moisture and Fertility Logging and Special Soil Problems from Northwest Agricultural Consultants. This publication is a non-technical attempt at discussion of those controllable factors which are most commonly considered when evaluating a soil or plant tissue test report
http://www.nwag.com/interpre.shtml

Soil Fertility Presentations

Effect of biomass removal on Soil fertility
http://www.nordgen.org/nsfp/doc/temadagar/Antti_Wall.ppt

Basic Concepts in Soil Fertility - from University of Hawaii
Basic Conceps in Soil Fertility

The Fertilizer Institute - commercial site
http://www.tfi.org/factsandstats/fertilizer.cfm

Fertilizers and Their Efficient Use - introduction to a 600 page manual, produced in Europe by The International Fertilizer Industry Association
http://www.fertilizer.org/ifa/publicat/pdf/introd.pdf

Simple Spectroscope - a description of a basic hand-held spectroscope made from a diffraction grating and a paper tube, from NASA
http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/edu_act/simple_spec.html

Line Spectra of Elements - an sample emission experiment using diffraction gratings from the Astronomy Department of Washington University
http://www.astro.washington.edu/covey/teaching/spectralab.html

Flame Tests - excellent images of spectra of elements, from Mineral Database
http://www.webmineral.com/help/FlameTest.shtml

What you need to make a spectroscope - a Freshman Scholars Seminar at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://www.uwm.edu/~awschwab/specweb.htm

CD Spectroscope - Little Shop of Physics!, Colorado University
http://littleshop.physics.colostate.edu/onlineexperiments/CD_Spectroscope.html

A Case Study of Academic Misconduct, Peer Review Failures and Journal Coverups of Published Errors* - two Views on Helmont's Willow Experiment, by David R. Hershey, Ph.D.
http://helmont1.tripod.com/

Willows and Photosynthesis: Analyzing van Helmont's Classic Experiment - from St John's University
http://employees.csbsju.edu/ssaupe/biol115/van_helmont.htm

Van Helmont's Experiment - image, from Lewis and Clark College
http://www.lclark.edu/~bkbaxter/200lecture/lecture_images/2_23_biomass.jpg

Sulphur deficiency in subterranean clover - a Farmnote from Agriculture Western Australia, with illustrations
Search for Farmnote 64/1985
http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/pls/portal30/docs/FOLDER/IKMP/PAST/PL/CLO/FN1985_064.HTM

How much fertility are you removing when you export hay and stubble from your farm? - a Farmnote from Agriculture Western Australia
http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/pls/portal30/docs/FOLDER/IKMP/LWE/LAND/FERT/F09701.PDF

The importance of soil pH - a Farmnote from Agriculture Western Australia
http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/content/pw/gard/ph.pdf

Minerals for Plants, Animals and Man - from Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, also available in pdf
http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex789

Plant Nutrients - a summary table from a Plant Nursery site in UK
http://www.passionflow.co.uk/mineral.htm

Hydroponic Nutrients - from TPS, an Australian equipment supplier
http://www.tps.com.au/hydroponics/nutrient.htm

Chapter 5: Mineral Nutrition - from Plant Physiology Online
http://4e.plantphys.net/chapter.php?ch=5

Color Pictures of Mineral Deficiencies in Plants - from University of Bristol Agricultural and Horticulture Research Station
http://www.luminet.net/~wenonah/min-def/list.htm

Smoke reveals mystery of how seeds sprout - an article from News in Science, ABC Online
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/enviro/EnviroRepublish_1147171.htm

Shuttle/Mir Seed Germination Activity - Measure and record in a data sheet the germination and growth rates of wheat seeds, from NASA
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/smore/teachers/act1.html

Raphanus sativus, Germination, and Inquiry: A Learning Cycle Approach for Novice Experimenters - from Electronic Journal of Science Education
http://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/crowther/ejse/rillero.html

Salinization Lab: Student template - determine how the concentration of salt in water affects the germination rate of seeds, from The College Board
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/pdf/materials/706.pdf

Salinization Lab: Teacher template - determine how the concentration of salt in water affects the germination rate of seeds, from The College Board
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/pdf/materials/705.pdf

Notes on Factors Affecting Germination & Seedling Emergence - from a not-for-profit site in the UK
http://www.qpais.co.uk/binoseed/bionotes.htm

From Seed to Community Pot - from The Orchid House - describes how orchids are grown commercially from seed
http://retirees.uwaterloo.ca/~jerry/orchids/compot.html

Techniques to inhibit germination

Seeds and Germination Q and A page from SAPS - from Science and Plants for Schools, UK
http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/qanda_seeds.htm

Improving on basic native seed storage - an article by Warren Mortlock, from The Florabank web site
Guideline 3

ANBG Seed Bank - from Austalian National Botanic Gardens
http://www.anbg.gov.au/anbg/seed-bank/

Cold storage

Seed Collecting (19/01/01) - from Gardening Australia, ABC
http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s241173.htm

Vacuum packing

Hand Operated Vacuum Packing System for Seed Storage - from Appropriate Technology for Small and Subsistence Farms
http://agronomy.ucdavis.edu/LTRAS/itech/#pack

What is Vacuum Packing? - a commercial site, Professional Marketing Group
http://www.profmarket.com/what.htm

Desiccation and dehydration

GLOBAL VOICES OF SCIENCE: Protector of the Seeds: Seminal Reflections from Southern Africa - an article in Science magazine about scientist who researched seed storage in Africa
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/307/5706/47

Techniques to promote germination

How to propagate Australian native plants - from Australian National Botanic Gardens
http://www.anbg.gov.au/PROPGATE/plant01.htm

A propagator for small plants or seedlings - from SAPS Supermarket Science
http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/worksheets/worksheets/supsci7.htm

Propagation from Seed - from the Society for Growing Australian Plants
http://asgap.org.au/seed.html

Getting Started 3: Growing from Seed - from the Society for Growing Australian Plants
http://asgap.org.au/APOL12/dec98-9.html

Propagation from Seed - from Australian National Botanic Gardens
http://www.anbg.gov.au/PROPGATE/germinat.htm

Successful Seed Germination - from Horticulture and Home Pest News, Department of Horticulture, Iowa State University
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/1996/2-9-1996/seed.html

Seed germination - from J.L. Hudson, a seedsman in California
http://www.jlhudsonseeds.net/Germination.htm

Seed Germination Database - data is provided by Thompson & Morgan Successful Seed Raising Guide, from The Backyard Gardener
http://www.backyardgardener.com/tm.html

Start Seed and Transplants in Sterilized Soil - from Colorado State University
http://coopext.colostate.edu/4DMG/Soil/sterile.htm

Inoculation

Growing Legumes with 'Fertilizer Factory' Nodules - an experiment to investigate the effect of rhizobia inoculum on seed germination, from The Bean Files
http://www.clima.uwa.edu.au/schools/beanfiles/episodes/episode5/growlegumes

INTRODUCTION TO MYCORRHIZAS - from Mark Brundrett
http://mycorrhizas.info/index.html

Inoculating and pelleting pasture legume seed - Fact Sheet, from NSW Department of Primary Industries
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/field/pastures/establishment/inoculating-legume-seed

Table of legumes - from NSW Department of Primary Industries
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/field/pastures-_and_-rangelands/establishment/inoculating-legume-seed/table-2

Inoculation and Lime Pelleting pasture legumes - from Department of Agriculture, WA
Farm Note

Heat beds

Plant Propagation Equipment - from Nutriflo Hydroponics Systems Suppliers of Quality Hydroponics
http://users.bigpond.net.au/nutriflo/prop.htm

Heat Mats Flyer - from Phytronics Inc - providers of horticultural equipment
http://www.phytotronics.com/Redi-HeatMats.pdf

Lime pelleting

Inoculating and pelleting pasture legume seed - from Agfact - a website of NSW Department of Agriculture
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/field/pastures/establishment/inoculating-legume-seed

Seradella - Information page from department of Agriculture NSW
Seradella

Fertilisers for sowing pastures - from Dairylink - NSW Department of Primary Industries
Establishing Pastures

Misting

Greenhouse sprinkler and misting systems - from a Greenhouse equipment supplier
http://www.littlegreenhouse.com/accessory/mist.shtml

Propagation - tricks of the trade - from Societies for the Growing of Australian Plants
http://asgap.org.au/tricks.html

Palm Tree Seed Germination, Growing Palm Trees from Seed A Nurseryman's Viewpoint - from a Nurseryman
http://www.junglemusic.net/palmadvice/palms-seed-germination.htm

Pretreatments

Plant Propagation from Seed - from the Society for the Growing of Australian Plants
http://asgap.org.au/seed.html

Seed processing and Storage - pdf from Saving our seed, see page 20 + for Germination Enhancement Techniques
http://www.savingourseed.org/pdf/SeedProcessingandStorageVer_1pt3.pdf

7. TREATMENTS TO PROMOTE SEED GERMINATION - from Food and Agrictural Organization of the United Nations
http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/006/Q2190E/Q2190E07.htm

SEXUAL PROPAGATION OF PLANTS - from Ohio State University Extension
http://hcs.osu.edu/mg/manual/prop.htm

Seed Pre-treatment - from Nindethana Seeds, includes information about smoke treatment
http://members.iinet.net.au/~nindseed/pretreatment.htm

Abrasion

Growing from Seed - from the Society for Growing Australian Plants - scroll down to 'Sowing the Seed'
http://asgap.org.au/APOL12/dec98-9.html

Raising Dune Plants in the Nursery - pdf file from Queensland Government Environment Protection Agency, abrasion mentioned on page 2., find many other Dune related links on this page
http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/publications?id=311

Scarification

Methods of Breaking Dormancy - from University of Arizona, scroll down to see information
http://ag.arizona.edu/gardening/plantprop.html

Overcoming Seed Dormancy: Trees and Shrubs - from North Carolina University
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-8704.html

Heat

Germination of Epacris Seeds using Plant-derived Smoke, Darkness and Heat - from the Society for Growing Australian Plants
http://asgap.org.au/APOL12/dec98-9.html

The Soil Seedbank of Cumberland Plain Woodland - from the University of Western Sydney, a poster presentation
http://www.uow.edu.au/science/biol/esa/posters/morris_w.pdf

Leaching

Propagation from Seed - from the Society for growing Australian Plants - scroll down to 'Leaching'
http://asgap.org.au/seed.html

Germination of Seed of Rutaceae - Boronia, from ASGAP
http://asgap.org.au/boronia1.html

Smoke

Regen 2000 Smoke Water Products - a commercial site for this chemical which is used to improve the germination rate of Australian native species
http://www.tecnica.com.au/Regen-Overview.html

Propagation from Seed - from ASGAP, Scroll down or search (Ctrl + F) for 'Smoke'
http://asgap.org.au/seed.html

Smoke-induced seed germination in California chaparral - an article from Ecological Society of America
http://www.findarticles.com/m2120/n7_v79/21231379/p1/article.jhtml

Chemical pre-treatment of seed to increase synchronicity, rate and speed of germination - research results from the Australian National Botanic Gardens
http://www.anbg.gov.au/hort.research/grass-project/nht6.html

The latest research - use of smoke in stimulating germination of seed - Australian National Botanic Garden
http://www.anbg.gov.au/PROPGATE/latest.htm

Smoke Germination - from EarthBeat, ABC
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/earth/stories/s1701.htm

Horticulture Links - from Georgia Agriculture Education
http://aged.ces.uga.edu/Horticulture%20Resources/index.htm

Budding Scholars - Horticulture Science Fair Projects, from Texas A&M University
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/scienceprojects/

Early growth responses of blue gums on the basaltic plains to ripping, mounding and fertiliser application - from the CSIRO Plant Industry Division
http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/72/paper/EA99113.htm

Plant Growth and Compost experiment design - from Cornell University
http://www.css.cornell.edu/compost/plantgrowth.html

The effects of different levels of minerals on plant growth - teacher and student guides from Science and Plants for Schools, uses radish seeds
http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/worksheets/scotland/radish.htm

Photosynthesis Simulation an interactive simulation that explores the effect of light intensity and wavelength on phosotsynthesis from First Year Biology at The University of Sydney. Requires Shockwave plug-in and QuickTime
http://fybio.bio.usyd.edu.au/VLE/L1/ResourceCentre/CAL/PSexpt/PSexpt.shtml

Gibberagong Field Studies at Bobbin Head - take a virtual field trip to study dry sclerophyll forest, mangroves and rainforests
http://www.gibberagon-e.schools.nsw.edu.au/page20.html

Epiphytes - from the Australian National Botanic Gardens Glasshouse
http://www.anbg.gov.au/anbg/glasshouse/

Rainforest and vine thickets - from the National Land and Water Resources Audit
Fact Sheet

Epiphytes - adaptations to an aerial habitat - from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/ksheets/epiphytes.html

Australia's Native Orchids - from Australian Society for Growing Australian Plants
http://asgap.org.au/APOL19/sep00-1.html

Towra Point Mangrove Excursion - virtual field trip, from The University of Sydney
http://bugs.bio.usyd.edu.au/Mangroves/title.html

A virtual field trip of a mangrove swamp - from Jane West, updated to 2003 Syllabus
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~janewest000/Mangrove/

Xerophytes - from Education Faculty, Sydney University
http://alex.edfac.usyd.edu.au/Methods/HSIE/Ayca/untitled/xerophyt.htm

Xerophytes Glasshouse (Cactus and Succulents) - images from St Andrews Botanic Garden, Scotland. Click on The Garden, then Glasshouses, then Succulents
http://www.st-andrews-botanic.org/

Queensland Bottle Tree - Brachychiton rupestris, page from commercial Site
http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/plant/Brachychiton-Rupestris-Queensland-Bottle-Tree.htm

Queensland Bottle Tree - Brachychiton rupestris, bark is photosynthetic
http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botanytextbooks/generalbotany/barkfeatures/b0351tx.html

Bottle Tree Plantations - Commercial growers
http://www.bottletrees.info/

Flowering Plant Diversity - includes images of xerophytes, from University of West Indies
http://scitec.uwichill.edu.bb/bcs/bl14apl/flow2.htm

Plants of the Mallee Scrublands - from Australian National Botanic Gardens - 23 page pdf document - see page 11 - Adaptations of Mallee Plants
http://www.anbg.gov.au/education/pdfs/mallee-2002.pdf

Making Every Drop Count - from NOVA
http://www.science.org.au/nova/095/095key.htm

Feeding the Future - from NOVA
http://www.science.org.au/nova/071/071key.htm

Farming for the Future - from NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/science/biofarming.html

Watering Home Gardens and Landscape Plants - Presented by Washington State University Cooperative Extension
http://gardening.wsu.edu/library/lanb002/lanb002.htm

Irrigation Scheduling - from Agriculture, WA
Irrigation scheduling - how and why

HISTORY of Hydroponics - prepared by a horticultural student and Washington State University
http://classes.hortla.wsu.edu/hort425/1999/paper2/hshydroponics/allhist.html

Growing hydroponic vegetables - from Malcom Campbell
Page Link

Hydroponics How-tos - from Australian Hydroponics Website
http://www.australianhydroponics.com.au/category/how-tos/

Practical Hydroponics and Greenhouses - back issues of this journal which publishes one article per issue on line including topics such as http://www.hydroponics.com.au/back_issues/issue39.html
http://hydroponics.com.au/php/viewforum.php?f=4

Asexual Reproduction - from The Biology Pages, John Kimball
http://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages/A/AsexualReproduction.html

Plant Propagation: An Overview of Asexual Reproduction - includes grafting, layering and tissue culture, from Texas A&M University
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/propagation/propagation.html

STOLON - from the Botanic Gardens, University of California, Los Angeles
http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botanytextbooks/generalbotany/typesofshoots/stolon/

Propagation from Cuttings - from Australian Society for Growing Australian Plants
http://asgap.org.au/cuttings.html

Eucalypts - an Australian Museum Fact Sheet
http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/eucalypts.htm

Lignotuber formation in Banksias - from Australian Flora Foundation
http://www.aff.org.au/AFF2_Sedgley_Banksia_lignotuber_form.htm

The lignotuber of Eucalyptus moorei Maiden & Cambage - from Australian National Botanic Gardens
http://www.anbg.gov.au/projects/eucalypts/images/eucalyptus-moorei-lignotuber.html

The lignotuber of Eucalyptus nortonii (Blakely) L.A.S. Johnson - from Australian National Botanic Gardens
http://www.anbg.gov.au/projects/eucalypts/images/eucalyptus-nortonii-lignotuber.html

Lignotuber on Eucalyptus rossii - from Australian Society for Growing Plants
http://asgap.org.au/APOL18/jun00-8c.html

MYRTACEAE Eucalyptus pulchella - lignotuber and epicormic shoots, University of Tasmania
http://www.utas.edu.au/docs/plant_science/field_botany/species/dicots/myrtasp/eucapulc.html

Epicormic Shoots - from Society for the Growing of Australian Plants
http://asgap.org.au/APOL20/dec00-8e.html

Plant Response to Bush Fire (3/12/99) - from ABC TV Gardening Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s73587.htm

Fire Resistant Native Plants - from ASGAP- scroll down to Eucalypts and Bushfires
http://asgap.org.au/APOL3/sep96-1.html

Kapalga fact sheet series: fire and vegetation dynamics - from CSIRO
Vegetation dynamics

Eucalypts of Australia - from CSIRO
Euclid

Australia's Native Vegetation - from Environment Australia
http://www.erin.gov.au/land/vegetation/

Australian Native Violets - from Growing Lifestyle, violets spread by stolons which root at the nodes
http://www.burkesbackyard.com.au/2000/archives/2000/in_the_garden/flowering_plants_and_shrubs/australian_native_violets

Plant Propagation by Division - from the Australian Society for Growing Australian Plants, includes Kangaroo Paw rhizomes
http://asgap.org.au/division.html

Starting Out with Native Orchids - from the Australian Society for Growing Australian Plants, see propagation
http://asgap.org.au/APOL23/sep01-2.html

Brief Description of Ferns and Bryophytes in Mt Field National Park - many with rhizomes, from University of Tasmania
http://www.utas.edu.au/docs/plant_science/field_botany/species/fern/famfern.html

Send in the Clones - from HowStuffWorks
http://www.howstuffworks.com/cloning1.htm

Growmore Bio-tech Products - links to pictures of their FACILITIES and examples such as bananas, sugarcane and asparagus
http://www.growmorebiotech.com/product.htm

Plant Tissue Culture for Home Gardeners - from Horticultural Science & Plant Technology Group, The University of New England
http://www.une.edu.au/agss/hort/horticultural-science.php

Tissue Culture of Woody Plants - from Texas A & M University - including impact of the tissue culture industry
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/tisscult/microprop/woodypl.html

Designing a Plant Micropropagation Laboratory - from Departments of Plant Science and Agricultural Engineering, University of Connecticut
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/tisscult/microprop/facilities/microlab.html

Transgenic Plants - by John W. Kimball, formerly of Harvard University
http://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages/T/TransgenicPlants.html

Trio of New Seedless Grapes on the Way to Consumers - propagation of new varieties of seedless grapes from tiny, developing seeds, US Department of Agriculture
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/1999/990618.htm

Plant gene cloning may lead to better timing of flowering - from US Department of Agriculture
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/nri/highlights/2001_no2.pdf

Cloning of metal-eating plants could clean up contamination - an article from Purdue News
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever/010813.Salt.gene.html

Plant Cloning is Really Cleaning Up - from Thomas.net. Scientists are looking into cloning metal-absorbing plants as a more efficient and cheaper alternative for contaminant elimination.
http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/archives/2001/09/plant_cloning_i.html?t=archive

Designing Trees - article from Scientific American on the genetic engineering of pest-resistant trees
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0000BA96-AE60-1CDA-B4A8809EC588EEDF

Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research
http://www.cpbr.gov.au/cpbr/

About Threatened Species - from the Threatened Species Network including Why save threatened species? What is biodiversity? and What makes a species become endangered?
http://wwf.org.au/ourwork/species/tsn/

FAQ Sheets - from Threatened Species Network
http://wwf.org.au/ourwork/species/tsnfaqs/

Protecting threatened Plants - from ASGAP
http://asgap.org.au/APOL31/sep03-4.html

Biological Diversity - from Environment NSW
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/biodiversity/nswbiostrategy.htm

Recovery planning in NSW - from the National Parks and Wildlife Servicee
http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/npws.nsf/Content/Recovery+planning

Genetic diversity - from Connexions
http://cnx.org/content/m12158/latest/

Genetic diversity: Big Differences Over Small Distances - from Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
http://jrbp.stanford.edu/views/genetic.php

Direct link between global warming, genetic diversity - from ScienceBlog
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/node/3967

Diversity Fieldwork Gallery - from Australian Museum terrestrial Ecology Page, Slideshow
http://www.austmus.gov.au/terrestrial_ecology/gallery/diversity/index.htm

Special: Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture - from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV/EPdirect/EPre0039.htm

ANBG Seed bank - from Australian National Botanic Gardens
http://www.anbg.gov.au/anbg/seed-bank/index.html

Seed banks - from Biotechnology Australia
http://www.biotechnologyonline.gov.au/enviro/seedbanks.cfm

Seedsavers network, Byron Bay - from Gardening Australia, ABC
http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s1251536.htm

Seed Banks: A Resource for the Future - from Canadian Botanical Conservation Network
http://www.rbg.ca/cbcn/en/information/seedbanks/index.html

Saving Seeds in a Small Way - from Garden Guides
http://www.gardenguides.com/articles/savingseeds.htm

Learning to Save Seeds
Page Link

The Millenium Seed Bank Project - an international collaborative plant conservation initiative, from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/msbp/

The SeedSaver's Network - from Seedsavers Organisation Home Page
http://www.seedsavers.net/

Seed saving kit - from Seeds of Change, retailers
http://www.seedsofchange.com/garden_center/product_details.asp?item_no=S14521

Basic seed saving - from International Seed Saving Institute
http://www.seedsave.org/issi/issi_904.html

Plant Biodiversity in Crops and Gardens - a brief description of an episode about The National Seed Storage Laboratory from Science Friday or listen to the program with RealAudio
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1999/Mar/hour2_031999.html

About Seed Savers - from NZ SeedSavers
http://www.seedsavers.org.nz/about/about.html

Fact Sheet: SAVING AUSTRALIA'S RARE PLANTS - from Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research
http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/rare/rare.html

Australia's Disappearing Plants - from Australian National Botanic Garden
http://www.anbg.gov.au/anpc/threats.html

Australia Plants at Risk - from Society for Growing Native Plants
http://asgap.org.au/atrisk.html

Button Wrinklewort Daisy

The Button Wrinklewort Daisy - from Australian Heritage Council
Link

Button Wrinklewort - profile - from NSW Threatened Species
http://www.threatenedspecies.environment.nsw.gov.au/tsprofile/profile.aspx?id=10739

The Button Wrinklewort Daisy - Fact Sheet, from Environment ACT
http://www.tams.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/58653/Button_Wrinklewort.pdf

A few daisies short of the chain - download this article from the archives of Ecos, CSIRO
http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/EC88p3.htm

Red Cedar Tree

Toona ciliata - or Red Cedar, an image from Australian National Botanic Gardens
http://www.anbg.gov.au/images/photo_cd/809931012633/084.html

Rainforest Plants of the Brisbane Area Toona ciliata (Red Cedar) - description from Brisbane Rainforest Action & Information Network
http://www.brisrain.webcentral.com.au/old_site/database/Toona_ciliata.htm

Red Cedar (Toona ciliata) Replanting Trial. - from Milton Rural Landcare Group
http://www.presoz.com.au/landcare/pages/current.html

Moth may tip balance in forest survival - from CSIRO
http://www.csiro.au/files/mediaRelease/mr2000/CedarTipMoth.htm

Wollemi Pine

The Wollemi Pine - from Wollemi Pine International
http://www.wollemipine.com/

Wollemi Pine - a very rare discovery - from Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/information_about_plants/wollemi_pine

Wollemi Pine - from Catalyst, ABC
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1371627.htm

Wollemi Pine - from Biotechnology Australia
http://www.biotechnologyonline.gov.au/enviro/wollemi.cfm

Wollemia nobilis Wollemi Pine - from Department of the Environment and Heritage
http://www.deh.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=64545

Australian Conifers: Wollemi Pine - from Industrial Technology and Design Teachers Association
http://www.intad.asn.au/materials/wd_woll.asp

Wollemi pine infected by fungus - from News in Science, ABC
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1497961.htm

King's lomatia

King's lomatia - the Oldest Plant Clone in the World? - from Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania
http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/veg/lomatia/lomatia.html

Lomatia tasmanica - from Primary Industries, Water and Environment
http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/threatened/holly.html

Kings lomatia - from Primary Industries, Water and Environment
http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/WebPages/BHAN-54R7ZZ?open

An Enigmatic Lomatia - from Australian Plants Society, Tasmania
http://www.apstas.com/lomatiatas.htm

Lomatia tasmanica King's Lomatia - from Department of the Environment and Heritage
http://www.deh.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=3745

Specific Examples

TOWRA POINT NATURE RESERVE - take a virtual trip to Towra Point and study the conservation being undertaken by Sutherland Shire Environment Centre
http://www.ssec.org.au/our_environment/our_bioregion/towra/

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