Hi In the new "South African Journal of Botany" of March 2014, there are two articles related to smoke treatment. The following links should go to the abstracts of the articles. Unfortunately I do not have access to the complete articles: Smoke--water stimulates secondary metabolites during /in vitro/ seedling development in /Tulbaghia/ species http://sciencedirect.com/science/article/… and Synthesis, X-ray structure determination and germination studies on some smoke-derived karrikins http://sciencedirect.com/science/article/… Enjoy Christiaan van Schalkwyk Upington, South Africa On Jan 2, 2014, at 4:28 PM, William Hoffmann wrote: >> I have seen multiple posts on this list about using smoke water to >> stimulate germination of certain species. Does anyone use it to >> enhance growth after germination? I recently came across an >> interesting article in which commercial onion seedlings were watered >> regularly with smoke water. It had an impressive effect on growth, >> compared to plants that did not receive smoke water. After 175 days, >> the plants receiving smoke water had more than twice the bulb mass of >> the controls. If this response is common among geophytes, it would be >> quite a benefit. Have any of you tried this? >> >> The article citation is Kulkarni et al, Effect of smoke-water and a >> smoke-isolated butenolide on the growth and genotoxicity of commercial >> onion, Scientia Horticulturae, Volume 124, Issue 4, 1 May 2010, Pages >> 434-439. >> >> BTW, I am a new member of PBS. So far I don't grow any bulbs that are >> particularly interesting or difficult - mostly just easily purchased >> things. >> >> Bill >> >> -- >> William A. Hoffmann >> Associate Professor >> Department of Plant Biology >> North Carolina State University >> Raleigh, NC, 27695-7612 >> Phone: (919) 513-7668 >> http://www4.ncsu.edu/~wahoffma/labhome/… >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com/ > Version: 2014.0.4259 / Virus Database: 3658/6970 - Release Date: 01/02/14 > >