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USEFUL LINKS AND RESOURCES 

Native plant resources general:

  1. Plant distributions, photos, may include some detailed characteristics of common native plants: https://plants.usda.gov/java/

  2. From the Native Plant Society of Saskatchewan, general collection, processing and growing of prairie plants: https://www.npss.sk.ca/docs/2_pdf/NPSS_NativeSeedHarvestingandMarketing.pdf

  3. Nursery manual for native plants: A guide for tribal nurseries www2.gov.bc.ca/.../farming.../agriculture.../nursery-plant-production-guide.pdf

  4. Contains links to many sources related to native plant propagation and collection: https://www.nsl.fs.fed.us/nsl_wpsm.html

  5. Plant guide for Alberta species restoration, includes collection, processing, storage and propagation information for individual species: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/gm80hv565#.WPjV12nyvIU

  6. The Woody Plant Seed Manual https://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/32626

  7. Seed collecting manual : https://www.kew.org/sites/default/files/ENSCONET_Collecting_protocol_English.pdf

  8. Grow me instead guides, for native plant gardening: http://www.ontarioinvasiveplants.ca/resources/grow-me-instead

  9. Links for seed collection protocols, seed banking, and a full manual for seed collectors http://www.kew.org/science/collections/seed-collection/millennium-seed-bank-resources

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Books:

  1. Young, J. A., and C. G. Young. 1992. Seeds of Woody Plants in North America. TimberPress, Portland, OR.

  2. Young, J. A., and C. G. Young. 1986. Collecting processing and germinating seed of wildland plants. Timber Press, Portland, OR.

  3. Phillips, H. 1985. Growing and propagating wild flowers. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London.

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 Seed development:

  1. From forestry department of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the UN : http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/ad232e/AD232E02.htm

  2. http://rubisco.ugr.es/fisiofar/pagwebinmalcb/contenidos/Tema27/seeds.pdf (advanced)

 

Books:

  1. Baskin, J., and C. Baskin. 1998. Seeds: Ecology, Biogeography, and Evolution of Dormancy and Germination. Page Crop Science. Academic Press, San Diego.

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Seed processing equipment:

  1. Seed processing equipment for sale and descriptions: http://reveg-catalog.tamu.edu/12- Seed%20Processing.htm

  2. Make your own solar kiln. http://www.popularwoodworking.com/projects/solar-kiln

 

Seed quality standards

  1. Native seed quality bulletin, seed purity, viability testing https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/aosa/pages/33/attachments/original/1422394702/Nati ve_Seed_Quality_Bulletin_Sept_2012r.pdf?1422394702

  2. Association of Official seed analysts, link to seed quality standards and testing procedures: http://www.aosaseed.com/

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Seed storage:

  1. Seed storage behaviour database: http://data.kew.org/sid/

  2. Resources for long term seed storage: http://www.kew.org/science/collections/seed- collection/millennium-seed-bank-resources

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How to determine seed moisture content:

  1. https://www.seedtest.org/upload/cms/user/GRINDINGINISTAMOISTURETESTING2008- 09-14Annex.pdf

  2. http://www.bioversityinternational.org/fileadmin/bioversity/publications/Web_version/188/c h05.htm

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Seed propagation and nursery establishment:

  1. Native plant network, plant propagation protocol database: https://npn.rngr.net/propagation/protocols

  2. Database containing some germination protocols: http://data.kew.org/sid/

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Revegetation manuals

  1. http://yukonrevegetationmanual.ca/

  2. http://anpc.ab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2001- NativePlantRevegetationGuidelinesForAlberta-Feb-2001.pdf

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Native seed marketing

  1. https://www.npss.sk.ca/docs/2_pdf/NPSS_NativeSeedHarvestingandMarketing.pdf

  2. https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/aosa/pages/33/attachments/original/1422394702/Nati ve_Seed_Quality_Bulletin_Sept_2012r.pdf?1422394702

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