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Plant Chemoreceptors
Plants have various mechanisms to perceive danger in their environment. Plants are able to detect pathogens and microbes through surface level receptor kinases (PRK). Additionally, receptor-like proteins (RLP's) containing ligand binding receptor domains capture pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPS) and damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPS) which consequently initiates the plants innate immunity for a defense response.

Plant receptor kinases are also used for growth and hormone induction among other important biochemical processes. These reactions are triggered by a series of signaling pathways which are initiated by plant chemically sensitive receptors. Plant hormone receptors can either be integrated in plant cells or situate outside the cell, in order to facilitate chemical structure and composition. There are 5 major categories of hormones that are unique to plants which once bound to the receptor, will trigger a response in target cells. These include auxin, abscisic acid, gibberellin, cytokinin,, and ethylene. Once bound, hormones can induce, inhibit, or maintain function of the target response.

Article Draft
The article on chemo-reception has a lot of information on different types of receptors and provides examples of their functions by various organisms. However, it lacks any example of plant associated receptors. My purpose is to improvise this article by incorporating information extrapolated from reliable sources on plant relevant receptors.

Draft Insert
Plants have various mechanisms in which they perceive danger in their environment. They are able to detect pathogen and microbe related risk stimuli through surface level receptor kinases (PRK). Additionally, receptor-like proteins (RLP's) containing ligand binding receptor domains capture pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPS) and damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPS) which consequently renders the plants innate immunity for a defense response.

Plant receptor kinases are also used for growth and hormone induction among other important biochemical processes. These reactions are triggered by a series of signaling pathways which are initiated by plant chemical sensitive receptors. Hormone receptors can either be integrated in plant cells or situate outside the cell. There are 5 major categories of hormones that are unique to plants which once bound to the receptor, will trigger a response in target cells.

Idea Draft
Article: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/chemoreceptor

Evaluation:
 * 1) Everything in the article seems to be relevant to chemoreceptors in general. It also has various examples from different application that chemoreceptors are involved in. There didn't appear to be anything that was distracting throughout the article.
 * 2) The article appears to be written in a neutral standpoint with no sides or points being emphasized strongly.
 * 3) There does not appear to be viewpoints that are over-represented or underrepresented.
 * 4) Information does appear to have reliable references form science journals.
 * 5) The citations do seem to work after clicking on them.
 * 6) I noticed that the although there has been some information that is closer to being up to date, not as many references are provided.
 * 7) Conversations include rewriting the definition, omitting certain information that is irrelevant, and also renaming the article to something more accurate.
 * 8) The article is rated with start class and high importance by anatomy, animal anatomy, neuroscience, and molecular biology wikiprojects.
 * 9) Wikpedia goes into greater detail from what we have discussed in class but not as many examples on plants are shown.

Something that I think could improve this article is elaborating on insect chemoreception and its function in detecting food with an emphasis on plants. For example, nematodes have olfactosensory organs called amphids that essentially capture chemical molecules which can be dispersed by plant tissue and results in an action potential which influences the nematodes response mechanism by muscle contraction as well as the recruitment of other nematodes to the resource area.

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Article: wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_pollination

Evaluation:
 * 1) Everything in the article seems to be relevant to buzz pollination, however, there is very little detail and examples. There doesn't seem to be anything that is distracting.
 * 2) The article appears written in a neutral standpoint with no sides being taken strongly.
 * 3) There does not appear to be viewpoints that are over-represented or underrepresented.
 * 4) Information does appear to have reliable references from science journals.
 * 5) The citations do seem to work after clicking on them.
 * 6) The references are not all up to date, with only a few within the last decade. This article would definitely need some refresh in information and examples.
 * 7) Conversations on the talk page include rewording sentences which sound odd as well as information revamping.
 * 8) The article is rated start class with low importance. It is also part of wikiprojects on bees, plants, and insects.
 * 9) This article is not very detailed and does go into a bit more detail than discussed in class but is strongly in need of more information.

Something that I think could improve this article is to further explain the process in which bees use sonic vibrations in order to release pollen from specifically male anthers which could catalyze reproduction in plants. Additionally, it would be insightful to note that anthers in many plants including tomato plants which was discussed in the article or even blueberry plants do not release nector so honeybees usually evade them anyways.

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Article Evaluation
Article: Botany

1. Everything in this article seems to be relevant information to the article topic. Something that distracted me about this article is that it seems to include many different topics that are interconnected with botany like history and genetics. Having the subtopics titled and divided within the article did however help in making it easier to follow.

2. The article appears to be written with a neutral point of view.

3. There does not appear to be an over represented or under represented viewpoint throughout the article.

4. The citation links do work and the source do support the statements made in the article.

5. Each fact seems to be referenced with reliable sources that come from neutral standpoints.

6. The majority of the information provided in the article seems to be up to date as many of the sources are fairly new.

7. Most of the conversations going on about the article in the talk pages are regarding further modifying article links. One suggestion includes creating links on complex topics relating to botany which could include biochemistry or genetics since such a dense article can be convoluted to some readers overwhelmed with so much information to keep track of.

8. The article is rated as GA class with top importance.

9. Wikipedia seems to go into much greater detail than the way we've talked about similar topics in class.

Article: Plant Physiology

1. This information in the article is relevant as it offers insight on the subtopics that it lists. I felt that this article was easier to follow than the previous one since the information was less dense and to the point but also had related topics with links in case the reader craved additional information. However, there were not as many reference sources which seemed alarming as they also were dated many years ago.

2. The article appears to be written with a neutral point of view.

3. There does not appear to be an over represented or under represented viewpoint throughout the article.

4. The citation links do work and the sources do support the statements made in the article.

5. Each fact seems to be referenced with reliable sources that come from neutral standpoints.

6. The majority of the information provided in the article is not up to date and requires a refresh of informational update.

7. Conversations on the talk page about this article include making the article more comprehensive by replacing irrelevant topics with descriptive diagrams that outlay some of the biochemical processes that are listed.

8. The article is rated as B class on quality scale and top importance on importance scale.

9. Wikipedia seems to go into much greater detail on the topics that we discussed but does not seem to be as comprehensible when comparing to class discussions.