Course Reading

Date
Topic
Reading
Sept 9
Quantitative ethnobotany: is it biology?, is it a science? Balick, MJ. 1996. Transforming ethnobotany for the new millenium. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 83: 58-66.

Phillips, O, AH Gentry, C Reynel, P Wilkin, & C Galvez-Durand B. 1994. Quantitative ethnobotany and Amazonian conservation. Conservation Biology 8: 225-248
Sept 16
Bioprospecting for endophytes and their natural products Strobel, GA. 2002. Microbial gifts from rain forests. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology 24: 14-20.

Strobel, GA, K Kluck, WM Hess, J Sears, D Ezra, & PN Vargas. 2007. Muscodor albus E-6, an endophyte of Guazuma ulmifolia making volatile antibiotics: isolation, characterization and experimental establishment in the host plant. Microbiology 153: 2613–2620.
Sept 23
Plant transgenic nutritional enhancement Schubert, DR. 2008. The problem with nutritionally enhanced plants. Journal of Medicinal Food 11: 601–605.

Paine, JA, CA Shipton, S Chaggar, RM Howells, MJ Kennedy, G Vernon, SY Wright, E Hinchliffe, JL Adams, AL Silverstone & R Drake. 2005. Improving the nutritional value of Golden Rice through increased pro-vitamin A content. Nature Biotechnology 23: 482 – 487.
Sept 30
Plant engineering for biopolymer production

van Beilen, JB, & Y Poirier. 2008.  Production of renewable polymers from crop plants.  The Plant Journal 54: 684-701.

Kourtz, L, K Dillon, S Daughtry, OP Peoples, & KD Snell.  2007.  Chemically inducible expression of the PHB biosynthetic pathway in Arabidopsis Transgenic Research 16:  759-769.

Oct. 7
Ozone pollution effects on plants

Ashmore MR. 2005. Assessing the future global impacts of ozone on vegetation. Plant, Cell & Environment 28: 949 – 964.

Gregg, JW , CG Jones2 & TE Dawson. 2003. Urbanization effects on tree growth in the vicinity of New York City. Nature 424: 183-187.

Oct. 14
Agroforestry and field crop integration

Malézieux, e,  Y Crozat, C Dupraz, M Laurans, D Makowski, H Ozier-Lafontaine, B Rapidel, S de Tourdonnet & M Valantin-Morison.  2009.  Mixing plant species in cropping systems: concepts, tools and models. A review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development 29: 43-62.

Reyes, T, R Quiroz, O Luukkanen, & F de Mendiburu.  2009. Spice crops agroforestry systems in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania: growth analysis.  Agroforestry Systems 76: 513–523.

Oct. 28
Biological Control in Integrated Pest Management

Bale, JS, JC van Lenteren & F Bigler. 2008. Biological control and sustainable food production. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 363: 761-776

Degenhardt, J, I Hiltpold, TG Köllner, M Frey, A Gierl, J Gershenzon, BE Hibbard, MR Ellersiecke & TCJ Turlings. 2009Restoring a maize root signal that attracts insect-killing nematodes to control a major pest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 106: 13213-13218.

Nov. 4
Modeling forest yield

Mason, EG & H Dzierzon. 2006. Applications of modeling to vegetation management. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36: 2505–2514.

Huth, A, & B Tietjen. 2007. Management strategies for tropical rain forests: Results of ecological models and requirements for ecological–economic modeling. Ecological Economics 62: 207-215.

Nov. 11
Phytoremediation

LeDuc, DL & N Terry. 2005. Phytoremediation of toxic trace elements in soil and water. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology 32: 514-520.

van Dillewijn, P, JL Couselo, E Corredoira, A Delgado, R-M Wittich, A Ballester, & JL Ramos. 2008. Bioremediation of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene by bacterial nitroreductase expressing transgenic aspen. Environmental Science & Technology, 42: 7405–7410.

Nov. 18
Horticulture and invasive plants

Reichard, SH & P White. 2001. Horticulture as a pathway of invasive plant introductions in the United States. BioScience 51: 103–113.

Marco, A, S Lavergne, T Dutoit, & V Bertaudiere-Montes. 2009. From the backyard to the backcountry: how ecological and biological traits explain the escape of garden plants into Mediterranean old fields. Biological Invasions (DOI10.1007/s10530-009-9479-3).

Dec. 2
TBA

 

Dec. 9

Research proposals, pizza, & kudzu

The Amazing Story of Kudzu: love it or hate it, it grows on you - an offering from the Univ. of Alabama Center for Public TV.

Readings from previous years: 2007, 2005