User:Biology Brooke/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Plant communication

Article Evaluation

 * start class, mid importance.
 * too much emphasis on primary sources

To Do:

 * I think the intro paragraph could be broadened in scope and talk less about VOCs since that is a sub-section of the article and only a piece of plant communication
 * The intro mentions that plant communication is between plants and other organisms but I would like to expand on that and maybe even end up with a sub section for inter and intra specific plant communication
 * The VOC section reviews an experiment with tomatoes and dodder but does not do a good job of giving an overview of what VOCs do in plant communication in a broader sense, outside of this specific example/experiment
 * The VOC section also only includes terpenoids in terms of secondary metabolites involved (and doesnt use the term secondary metabolite, which i think could be linked here). It should be expanded to add other VOCs used in plant communication like those that are listed in the into paragraph. Actually, much of the intro paragraph could be moved into the VOC section itself
 * There is discussion in the Talk pages on whether electrical signaling belongs here or in it's own page. I think I agree since it's involved in within plant cell-cell communication rather than plant-plant or plant-other organism
 * For belowground, they could use some more secondary sources to get a bigger picture
 * For mycorrhizal communication, all or almost all of the citations are Susan Simards which presents only a limited view (and a "controversial" to some) view of what plant-mycorrhizal communication includes. There should be more diverse sources here to present what is now being learned about this outside of Simard's research.
 * This article (this came up some in the talk pages somewhat) could be spilt into chemical and behavioral/physical be able to include morphological cues which could be considered communication. Those cues aren't within the scope of this class though so I'll probably leave it how it is. Also because the idea of "plant behavior" can be controversial

Option 2

 * Allelopathy

Article Evaluation

 * C class, high importance in ecology and plants wikiprojects
 * missing information about experimental measurement

Option 3

 * Secondary metabolite

Option 4

 * VOCs