Wikipedia:Edit-a-thon/ASPB edit-a-thon 2016

This is the worklist page for the American Society of Plant Biologists edit-a-thon on July 11, 2016.

Articles to create

• Peggy Lemaux [1][2][3][4][5][6]
• Judith K. Brown [7][8]
• Sherri Brown [9][10]
• Deborah Delmer [11]
• Mary Clutter [12]
• Libo Shan [13][14][15]

Articles identified as needing help

During the Education Committee Workshop on Sunday, 7/10, ASPB conference attendees identified the following articles, with notes copied when applicable.

• cis-regulatory element
  • The information provided in the Promoters section needs to consider the variation and ambiguity in promoter region size. Also, a link to the separate Promoter (genetics) Wiki page would be helpful. Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190954/
• Genetically modified crops
  • Lacked decent background on Golden Rice, the science, genes and the false controversy generated by Greenpeace. It mentioned golden rice, but lacked depth. You have to go to a separate article on controversies.
• Cassava
  • Cassava article could use other 'see also' articles on other GE crops in development. Yellow cassava article needs thorough editing for quotes and citation issues, grammar and logic and also seems like a one sided article (from one of the inventors?)
• Alpha-synuclein
  • The transition of information was extremely well put together. All the information was orderly and detailed. Near the end of the article the names of genes that are associated with the protein are listed. My only suggestion would be to not only list these genes its associated with, but the diseases this protein is involved with as well (Parkinson's, LBD, etc).
• Late embryogenesis abundant proteins
  • the article is very thin, though there are refs.
• Sorghum bicolor
  • The cultivation/history section could have a lot more information about the sorghum conversion program and research currently being done to improve yields. Also some statements don't have citations within the article.
• Lignin
  • The statement about lignin being covalently linked to hemicellulose is still under debate in the community. A section on lignin and its impact on agriculture and animal feed could be useful.
• G protein
  • Decent start but largely oversimplified. Omits receptorless G proteins. Does not discuss plant G proteins re: being largely GTP-bound. Largely omits Gb and Gg subunits and their functions, including structure, membrane association, and effector interactions. Bias toward animal models. For a topic that is so widely studied, this article was surprisingly brief.
• Mediator (coactivator)
  • Overall this article is good. Several things need to be modified include: 1) Mediator also exists in plants, purified in 2007. 2) Med2,3,5 are also conserved. 3) Med5 belongs to the tail module.
• Inositol-3-phosphate synthase
  • Article has basic overview, but could be strengthened by discussion of genetic components and relevance to agriculture (phytate accumulation affecting bioavailability of phosphorous and phosphate accumulation in animal waste)
• Non-photochemical quenching
  • Needs a lot more detail, at least it already references to decent papers, but there are even better review articles out there. Kris Niyogi, Barbara Demmig-Adams and others have done a lot of research on it and characterized parts of the mechanism. Mechanism isn't explained well. Not all of the components are mentioned (state transition is missing) NPQ is different in different species.
• Sorghum bicolor
  • The research section could use clarification and additional citations, especially near the end, and could go more in depth into the current research. Overall, the article needs more content and citations.
• Cytochrome P450
  • This article is comprehensive with respect to the role of the enzymes in drug metabolism and animal biology, but it is extremely deficient with respect to plants. Plants have far more CYP genes per genome than animals and these enzymes have contributed to many of the evolutionary advances that have made land plants successful. This article should also link to the role of CYPs in plant secondary metabolism. The "Plant secondary metabolism" article could also be improved with links to the roles of the CYP enzymes in various pathways.
• Phyllotaxis
  • This article provides good basic definitions about different forms of phyllotaxis. However, the connection of phyllotaxis to plant function and its evolutionary importance is missing. The influence of environmental and genetic factors on phyllotaxis should be discussed.
• Systems Biology
  • Tin's inartistic discriminates the philosophical underpinnings of systems biology fairly well, but the only real-world application examples are of human health (most) and animal models; there is no mention of plant biology, ecology, agriculture, etc. This is a perennial problem in systems biology resources and information on the internet.
• C-Repeat Binding Factor
  • here are no details about the pathway, the functions of CBF beyond cold, what plants have CBF
• Genetically modified crops
  • Enormous overview of the topic but there are a few details that are technically incorrect, like the image of "transformation" is really an image of tissue culture, and "micro injection" doesn't inject anything into the DNA (precisely speaking)

Other things to do

• Plant cell
  • It suffers from the classic problem of having too much information about specifics and not enough general information. It lacks a proper lead section, it lacks any real information about function - including the sort of general information you'd expect about water uptake, and yet it mentions phloem loading.
• Plasmolysis
  • It could use expansion and additional referencing is pretty sad and lacks any references.
• Turgor pressure
  • The article is short and under-referenced. It could use expansion, especially in terms of its role and importance.
• Water potential
  • This article could use some help translating it into plain English. It's sorely in need of additional references.
• Soil plant atmosphere continuum
  • Very short article that would use expansion
• Osmotic pressure
  • Like the water potential one, could benefit from more text to complement the equations and needs references
• Transpiration
  • The article is too focussed on leaves; it doesn't give a whole-plant sense of the thing. It doesn't have any connection to xylem transport, water uptake
• Stomatal conductance
  • Very short, overly mathematical (which makes it inaccessible to the average reader) and short on sources. It could do with a better lead ("by definition" isn't a good way to start an encyclopedia article) and some sense of its importance (e.g., in an ecophysiology or plant production context).
• Xylem
  • The article tries to do too much, and ends up unbalanced. (It should be split into several articles.) The Cohesion-tension theory section, for example, could use work.
• Sap
  • The article is very thin apart from a section on Types of sap. It could badly use a lead section.
• Abiotic stress
  • Article could say a lot more about plants
• C3 carbon fixation
  • Short article that could use a lot of expansion
• History of C3 : C4 photosynthesis research
  • This short article has some interesting potential.
• Photosynthate partitioning
  • Very short article on a topic about which a lot could be said.
• Carbon fixation
  • Overview of a lot of different reactions, but there's room for expansion in a lot of the subsections.