User talk:Coralinepraz

I have changed your references. If you have to cite the same reference serveral times, you can make a named reference. With this you wil get each referenc only once in your reference-list. --Mannalem (talk) 16:37, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

"These berries are used for their medicinal, therapeutical and nutritious qualities." - It would be interesting these nutritious qualities are, respectively what beneficial effects they induce. --Mannalem (talk) 17:27, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

It would be good to make some linkages for difficult tecnical terms in the text. You only have to make double square bracket "  " around the word E.g.: dioecious With this technique you don't have to explain all difficult terms. --Mannalem (talk) 16:45, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Is it possible to make a distinct statement about the fertilization recommendations? --Mannalem (talk) 17:16, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

My suggestion to improve the "Plant protection" content: Relatively few pest and diseases are reported on Sea buckthorn. or it can be deleted, because there are many pests! --Mannalem (talk) 17:16, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

I have fond some simple misspelling, which I have corrected then. --Mannalem (talk) 17:16, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Review by User:Aguyer

Hey Coraline

'''I like the article how you extended it. I was quite surprised that before you wrote this entry, the English Wikipedia site included so few information about sea buckthorn. Even in German there was more information about sea-buckthorn. You can find just some few points that I suggest. I have written them in bold in the text below.'''

'''There are many quite long sentences. It is hard to formulate long sentences in English. In case you don’t feel comfortable with the language, it would be easier to write shorter sentences with just one verb. All in all I suggest starting a paragraph with the most important information.''' I corrected some spelling mistakes.

As my English isn't very good, it could be helpful to countercheck the text by someone whose first language is English.

Anouk

Hippophae rhamnoides, (common name : sea buckthorn) is a deciduous, epinous shrub from the genus Hippophae. This plant originates from Europe and Asia and is nowadays cultivated for his berries. These berries are used for their medicinal, therapeutical and nutritious qualities.

Taxonomy
Hippophae rhamnoides is the latin name for sea buckthorn. The genus Hippophae belongs to the family Elaeagnaceae. H. rhamnoides is the most widepread species of the genus Hippophae. This genus counts nine subspecies: carpatica, caucasia, gyantsensis, mongolica, sinensis, turkestanica, yunnanensis, rhamnoides and fluviatilis.

Description and Biology
Sea buckthorn is a fruitful shrub that can grow 2 to 4 meters high. It is a deciduous and dioecious species and normally spiny. The leaves are alternate, narrow and lanceolate. Their upper faces are silvery green. Sea buckthorn is a dioecious species. This means that the male and female flowers grow on different shrubs. The male inflorescence is built up of four to six flowers without petals. The female inflorescence consist normally of only one flower without petals and contains one ovary and one ovule. Male plants need to be planted near the female plants ones to allow the fecundation, this leads to the production of fruits. The fruits are oval and lightly roundish. They grow in compact grapes and their colour varies from pale yellow to dark orange. They weight between 0.2 and 1 g. The sea buckthorn has a very developped root system that can maintain the soil on high slopes. The roots live in symbiosis with actinomycetes. This relationship permits to fix nitrogen from the air. They also transform insoluble organic and mineral matters from the soil to more soluble states. The rhizomes grow very fast and produce sockers (I don’t know what sockers are: maybe you could link this to the corresponding wikipedia entry) and can so produce new colonies.

Origin and Distribution
Sea buckthorn is native from the temperate zones of Europe and Asia. It is spontaneous in Eurasia : China, Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Iran, Turkey, Latvia, Turkey, Romania, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, France, Netherland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Great Britain and Denmark. Sea buckthorn also grows in North America (USA and Canada) and was imported by the Russian migrants at the beginning of the 20th century.

Cultivation
The domestication of sea buckthorn occured a few decades ago and this because of its numerous qualities. The first International Symposium on sea buckthorn already took place in 1989 in Xi'an (China) and since then other European and International Symposium  occured.

Varieties and Cultivars
There is a high genetic variability in the nine subspecies of H. rhamnoides. This large genetic pool can be used in breeding programs and the desired caracters can be selected. Some countries, such as Russia, China, Latvia, Finland and Germany have breeding programms for sea buckthorn and therefore most of the cultivars are from these countries. The breeding criteria are for example the presence of thorns, the resistance to cold, the yield, the taste of the fruits, the contents of nutritious substances or the resistance to pest.

Soil
Sea buckthorn grows better on soils with a pH between 6 and 7 because it is a favorable environment for the actinomycetes that colonize the roots.

Fertilization
Sea buckthorn needs an adequate level of nutrients to produce a good yield and fruits of good quality. It responds well to phosphorous.

(Maybe you can find some more information about fertilization – if not: you maybe can integrate this part in the chapter plantation. This because it’s a quite a short paragraph)

Plantation
Sea buckthorn is normally planted (seedlings) or sowed in spring. The yield depends on the exposition to light as sea buckthorn doesn't like shadow. Therefore it is important to plant shrubs with distances between them. Plants are normally planted with 1 to 1.5 meters in rows that have 3 to 6 meters between each other. The density of the plantations varies from 500 to 3300 plants per hectare. (500-3300 is quite a large range: can you find some additional information about why it is like that?)

Plant protection
(are these the most important diseases? If so, you could introduce why you have chosen these two diseases.) Sea buckthorn has relatively few diseases, insects and reported. The disease Verticillium wilt caused by Verticillium albo-atrum and Verticillium dahliae is widespread where sea buckthorn is cultivated. The disease appears on trees 5 to 8 years after plantation. The infected fruits mature prematurely, dry up and shrivel. Infected trees should be dug out and burned'''. For 3 to 5 years ''' sea buckthorn should not be planted at the same place for 3 to 5 years. Fusarium wilt is another important disease in sea buckthorn. 'Fusarium'' spp. seem to''' only attacks rotting and dying plants. Infected branches should be cut and burned. There are also insects affecting sea buckthorn as aphids, thrips, two-spotted mites and earwigs. The gall tick, the leaf roller, the gypsy moth and the commashaped scale also cause damages to sea buckthorn.

The most damaging insect is the sea buckthorn fly. It penetrates the fruits and eats the flesh. The fruits are then unacceptable for use.

Weed control
Weed control is very important especially during the early growth stages. Sea buckthorn grows slower than weeds because it has a less vigorous root system. Weeds should be removed before planting and then controlled during the first 4 or 5 years. Mechanical and hand cultivation are both used for weed control. The cultivation should not be too deep not to damage the roots of sea buckthorn. (Does sea buckthorn have a fibrous root system? If so, you could include this information in this part)

Editing
Hi Coralinepraz, and welcome to Wikipedia! I have noticed that you and other new editors that you seem to know have been adding suggested articles to the talk pages of articles. Your work looks to be excellent, as far as content is concerned. But you're not supposed to put an article, even as a suggestion, on the article's talk page. Not me, but another editor just deleted yours, because the talk page is almost the worst place to put an article. As I have suggested to User:Beelert whom you may know, the place for this is your sandbox. A sandbox for your own personal use is in the section marked "Personal tools", which is visible somewhere on your screen if you are logged in. As a registered user, you can also create an almost infinite number of subpages to your user page.

I also suggested to Beelert that he/she post a link to the suggested article (which should be located in your sandbox) at the WikiProject Plants talk page. There it is guaranteed to draw the attention of other editors interested in plants, and they will likely comment on your article suggestions.

As is the case of most things, there are rules that everyone agrees to so everyone can work together well on Wikipedia. Please read up on those rules so your editing experience on Wikipedia will be the best it can be. Some suggested readings are:
 * Welcome
 * Five pillars
 * Subpages
 * Citing reliable sources
 * Sandboxes

There are hundreds more pages that can be helpful, but these five are a good start. Please pass this stuff on to any of the other new editors you may know who have also been using talk pages for article suggestions. If you need any help in the future, just ask me or any of the editors you find listed at WikiProject Plants (but check to see if they are still actively editing first; some of the users on the list no longer edit, and are very unlikely to respond to you). Someone will help you. Thanks, Hamamelis (talk) 23:12, 10 December 2012 (UTC)