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Liebi Martina,

eine sehr schöne Übersicht von Batis maritima. Super auch, dass du einen vollständige neuen Artikel geschrieben hast über eine Pflanze, die noch keinen Eintrag hat in Wikipedia.

Ich habe nur wenige Punkte gefunden, die du eventuell beachten könntest:

1. Wo (wenn überhaupt) wird die Pflanze kommerziell angebaut? Und wie genau wird sie angebaut (Standort -, Bodenbedingungen etc.)und geerntet? Hier könntest du noch einen Schwerpunkt legen.

2. Bezüglich Referenzen würde ich diese jeweils als Fussnote angeben und im Text mit einer Nummer kennzeichnen (Bsp. [1]).

3. Ich würde im Text nicht schreiben (Beispiel): „Lewis et al. 2005 zeigten, dass die Pflanze salztolerant ist...“, sondern nur „Die Pflanze ist salztolerant“ und dann auf die Referenz verweisen.

4. Wenn du den Pflanzennamen ausschreibst, würde ich ihn jeweils kursiv schreiben (B.maritima)

5. Achte darauf, dass der Schlusspunkt eines Satzes vor dem Zitat stehen sollte.

Nachstehend habe ich einige sprachliche Korrekturen im Text angemerkt. Diese sind jeweils Fett gedruckt und stehen in einer Klammer.

Morphology

Seed

They are 1.1 mm long and o.8 mm (0.8 mm) wide and have an extreme low weight (0.5 mg/seed)(.) [1]. Seeds are smooth, very dark and hard walled coating. They have an elongated lenticular shape. They have germinated (They germinate??) after floating in seawater for several months.

Seedling

Each of the pair of cotyledons is fleshy, whereas young leaves are thick, glaucous, and succulent and are similar to mature leaves (.) [2]. The primary root branches early in development and is unbranched until the shoot is 10 cm or more in height (.) [3].

Adult Plant and flowers

Plants are dioecious, perennial subshrubs 0.1–1.5 m tall which (and) form dense colonies. Stems are glabrous, ribbed, pale green to greenish yellow, and strong scented; bark is peeling at maturity. Carlquist (1978) noted that (löschen und . Growth rings...) growth rings are absent in woody stem tissues, and xylem vessels are solitary or grouped. Branching is alternate, and adventitious roots form (roots are formed?)at the nodes. Leaves are opposite and sessile, and the stipules are vestigial; blades are succulent, linear, linear-clavate, or linear-oblanceolate, gla- brous (glabrous), 3–4 angled, and 1–2 cm long; margins are entire, apices acute or mucronate, and the bases are tapered to a translucent membrane that overlaps the node, (.) The flowers of Batis maritima (Kursiv und bei allen Folgenden ebenfalls). They are self-incompatible and the morphology of the pollen indicate(s) that the plant is wind pollinated. [2]

Origin and regions of cultivation

The geographic distribution of B. maritima extends from 33uN latitude at Cape Island, South Carolina, to about 3uS latitude in northern Brazil. The northern distribution appears to be influenced by the severity, duration, and frequency of freezing temperatures. Many sites where maritime saltwort occurs are subject to severe tropical storms (.) [2]. Batis maritima occurs on tropical and subtropical coastlines of North America, Central America, northern South America, and the Caribbean Islands(.) [2]. Salt marshes are characterized by a broad spectrum of environmental gradients.[2] Mangrove swamps, about 0.5 m above mean sea level and subject to frequent tidal inundation and water-logged conditions, often support a ground layer of dense colonies of B. maritima on tropical coastlines (Lewis, 2005; Long and Lakela, 1971). (Referenz wegstreichen und bei allen anderern auch.)

Ability to produce adequate levels of biomass over a wide environmental range have been well documented(.) (Noaman & El-Haddad, 2000). It typically occurs at elevations less than 1.0 m above mean sea level and at sites where salinity ranges from 18 to 50 ppt (muddy tidalbanks, mangrove swamps, salt-marshes, mud and saltflats)(.) [2] Batis maritima occurs in sites normally subject to minimal sand coverage [2]. Wrack deposits stimulate growth [2] .

Maritime saltwort has been reported as an invasive species in Hawaii, where it displaces native species (Rauzon and Drigot, 2002; Wagner, Herbst, and Sohmer, 1990)

Saltwort is intolerant of shade (Würde ich in einen Abschnitt integrieren, z.B nach Wrack deposits stimulate growth.)

Product use

Seeds

The yellow to golden hued meal is used for food [1]. (Eventuell kannst du in einem Satz ausführen, in welcher Form die Samen verwendet/Weiterverarbeitet werden.)

Oil

Suitable as a drying oil for use in the paint and coatings industry (White) similar to safflower oil in fatty acid composition. It is considered to be very healthy.

Leaves

Leaves occasionally are added to salads in Puerto Rico (Logier, 1990).

Roots

Roots are used as a sweetener for coffee by Comia'ac Indians (Wilder, Felger,and Romero-Morales, 2008).

Medicinal Use

Batis maritima has been used in folk herbal medicine in Puerto Rico to treat gout, eczema, psoriasis, rheumatism, blood disorders, and thyroid disorders (Logier, 1990). Standley (1930) indicated that it is used to treat cutaneous infections in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico.

Additional value

Batis maritima is proposed to have a major role in reducing ozone levels in the stratosphere (Bill et al., 2002; Manley et al. 2006; Rhew, et al., 2002). Maritime saltwort produces methyl halides, which are the chief carriers of bromide and chloride ions from the marine and terrestrial environments to the stratosphere (Manley et al., 2006; Ni and Hager, 1998; Rhew et al., 2002). Halide emission by B. maritima is temperature influenced, and a small area of salt marsh dominated by maritime saltwort can make an appreciable contribution to total methyl halides emitted from a salt marsh (Manley et al., 2006).

Physiology

High leaf sap osmotic pressures, high tensions in the water columns of xylem, (kein Koma) and high sodium and chloride ion levels indicate that B. maritima is a xeromorphic, salt-accumulating halophyte (Carlquist, 1978). Lu¨ ttge et al. (1989) noted that succulence and sulfate concentrations doubled in maritime saltwort in the dry season. (Referenz streichen und The succulence and sulfate concentrations double in maritime saltword during the dry season). Seasonal variation in the halophytic succulent zone is great because of temporary flooding in the wet season followed by extended drought during the dry season (Medina et al., 1989). Leaf succulence increases significantly in the dry season and leaves are shed, thereby reducing salt-induced stress [2] . (Dies ist eine Wiederholung von vorher, das würde ich weglassen). Water balance is influenced further by nighttime transpiration rates that significantly reduce predawn xylem pressure potential (Donovan, Linton, and Richards, 2001). saltwort has year-round photosynthetic activity, but the winter rate of carbon dioxide fixation is reduced. They tolerate frequent to infrequent flooding by high tides. [2] (Den letzten Satz verstehe ich nicht ganz, meinst du einfach They tolerate frequent to infrequent flooding?)

Symbionts

Koske (1988) found that obligate-symbiotic vesicular-arbus cular mycorrhizae (VAM) colonize B. maritima roots. VAM improve phosphate nutrition and indirectly reduce water stress in host plants.

Genetics

Maritime saltwort has a chromosome number of 2n 5 22 (Goldblatt, 1976)

Hey dear Martina

It's me, Patrizia :)! First of all, your wikipedia entry is very well structured! That gives a good overview and it is easy to find specific topics. You made every thing new and i saw, that you could take the picture from the entry of "Batis (plant"). That's cool! I do not copy the text again... Daniela already made some notes in bold; there are some little mistakes to correct.

Here some inputs:

1. I think, the most important thing is to fix that with the references. There is no reference list showing up at the bottom of your page...As Daniela wrote, you can have a look at youtube or in other wiki entries. When you use a reference twice, you can give a short name to it....I just learnd that! :) There should only be numbers in the text and all the rest is in the reference list.

2. Daniela already made some comments and corrections in bold...Except of an other 'coma' in the section of physiology (i made in bold/italic) I could not find others. And I could not understand the last sentence in this section either.

3. Although it is well structured, the chapter under product use look a little bit lost with only one sentence.... is it possible to find some more information about those?

4. and yes I would say: They germinate (first section)

5. the table in the section "Special compounds and nutritive value" is not so nice placed...or is it possible also to write two or three sentences about this topic?

If you have any questions, pleas ask! would like to stay friends :-)

Have a nice evening and see you soon Schwepat (talk) 13:31, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a

template or a tag; see the help page. (Da stimmt noch was nicht, auf Youtube hat es ein gutes Video, wie man Referenzen angibt. Dies findest du unter dem Stichwort Create external links and references on a wiki.)

Falls du noch Fragen und Anregungen hast, bitte zu mir kommen! Dani

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