Listing of Useful Plants of the World
[formerly Listing of Potential New Crops for Australia]


NOTICE: Information on the background to this Listing is available. The analysis of numbers of papers/mentions over time was completed in 1997, using the Agricola database (1970-1996). Hard copies of the Listing (553 pages; over 4200 new crops listed with the analyses of numbers of papers over time included) are available from the publisher, Dr Rob Fletcher; see Advice on Publications Available.

The references listed below are from the Biological Abstracts database (1988-2000) and are courtesy of SilverPlatter Information. For more information re Silverplatter, go to www.silverplatter.com.


Gaultheria procumbens

 

Analysis of numbers of papers/mentions over time (Agricola database 1970-1996):

 

Source: AGRICOLA database (1970-1996)

Common Name(s): checker berry syn tea berry syn wintergreen
Crop Use(s): fruit=beverage=oil crop
Reference Source(s): sturtevant
Number of Papers/Mentions: 15

References (Biological Abstracts 1988-2000):

[These references are from the Biological Abstracts database and are courtesy of SilverPlatter Information. For more information re SilverPlatter, go to www.silverplatter.com. References are listed alphabetically by author within years, with most recent references first; addresses of author(s) have been included when available. To search within this page, we suggest using Find in Page, within the Edit menu of the Web Browser.]

Donohue, K., D. R. Foster, et al. (2000). Effects of the past and the present on species distribution: Land-use history and demography of wintergreen. Journal of Ecology. April 88(2): 303-316. {a} T. H. Morgan School of Biological Sciences, University of Kentucky, 101 Morgan Building, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA

Motzkin, G., W. A. Patterson, III, et al. (1999). A historical perspective on pitch pine-scrub oak communities in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts. Ecosystems . May June 2(3): 255-273. {a} Harvard Forest, Harvard University, Petersham, MA, 01366, USA

Whittle, C. A., L. C. Duchesne, et al. (1998). Soil seed bank of a jack pine (Pinus banksiana) ecosystem. International Journal of Wildland Fire 8(2): 67-71. {a} Canadian For. Serv., Nat. Resources Canada, Great Lakes For. Cent., P.O. Box 490, Sault Ste. Marie, ON P6A 5M7, Canada

El, G. N. E., T. S. Schubert, et al. (1997). Expanded range of Cylindrocladium colhounii in the United States. Plant Disease 81(11): 1333. {a} Florida Dep. Agriculture Consumer Services, Division Plant Industry, P.O. Box 147100, Gainesville, FL 32614-7100, USA

McGee, G. G., D. J. Leopold, et al. (1995). Understory response to springtime prescribed fire in two New York transition oak forests. Forest Ecology and Management 76(1-3): 149-168. {a} 1 Forestry Drive, State Univ. New York, Coll. Environmental Science Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA

Usui, M., Y. Kakuda, et al. (1994). Composition and energy values of wild fruits from the boreal forest of northern Ontario. Canadian Journal of Plant Science 74(3): 581-587. {a} Dep. Environ. Biol., Univ. Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada

Cipollini, M. L. and E. W. Stiles (1992). Relative risks of fungal rot for temperate ericaceous fruits: Effects of seasonal variation on selection for chemical defense. Canadian Journal of Botany 70(9): 1868-1877. {a} Smithsonian Environ. Res. Cent., P.O. Box 28, Edgewater, Md. 21037, USA

Matlack, G. R., D. J. Gibson, et al. (1992). Clonal propagation, local disturbance, and the structure of vegetation: Ericaceous shrubs in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. Biological Conservation 63(1): 1-8. {a} Harvard Forest, PO Box 68, Petersham, Mass. 01366, USA

Middleton, D. J. and C. C. Wilcock (1990). Chromosome counts in Gaultheria and related genera. Edinburgh Journal Of Botany 47(3): 303-314.

Ward, D. B. (1989). Gaultheria procumbens at Pine Hills, Indiana (USA): Its continued decline and incipient extirpation, 1951-1981. Rhodora 91(868): 282-295.

Bush, E. M. (1988). A floristic study of a wet meadow in Barbour County, West Virginia (USA). Castanea 53(2): 132-139.

Pekins, P. J. and W. W. Mautz (1988). Digestibility and nutritional value of autumn diets of deer. Journal Of Wildlife Management 52(2): 328-332.

Flinn, M. A., S. E. Fisher, et al. (1985). Seasonal variation in the nonstructural carbohydrate composition of rhizomes of forest understory species. Proceedings Of The Nova Scotian Institute Of Science 35(3-4): 91-98.

Bonfante, F. P., P. V. Gianinazzi, et al. (1984). Ultrastructural aspects of endomycorrhiza in the Ericaceae: 4. Comparison of infection by Pezizella ericae in host and non-host plants. New Phytologist 98(2): 329-334.

Wollenweber, E. and G. Kohorst (1984). Novel epicuticular leaf flavonoids from Kalmia and Gaultheria (Ericaceae). Zeitschrift Fuer Naturforschung Section C Biosciences 39(7-8): 710-713.


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