Advances In Economic Botany

Download or read book Selected Guidelines for Ethnobotanical Research written by Miguel N. Alexiades (ed) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conducting ethnobotanical research; Protocol for conducting ethnobotanical research in the tropics; Professional ethics and ethnobotanical research; Collecting ethnobotanical data: an introduction to basic concepts and techniques; Collecting plant specimens; Standard techniques for collecting and preparing herbarium specimens; Collecting palm specimens; Recommendations for collecting mushrooms; Guidelines for collecting bryophytes; Collecting bulk specimens: methods and environmental precautions; Quantitative methods in ethnobotanical fieldwork; Some quantitative methods for analyzing ethnobotanical knowledge; Behavioral orientations toward ethnobotanical quantification; Beyond nomenclature and use: a review of ecological methods for ethnobotanists.

Download or read book Economic Botany written by G.E. Wickens and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strength of this book is that it is written by someone who has spent a lifetime devoted to the science of economic botany. The author has brought together his vast experience in the field in Africa with his studies of arid land plants at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The result is an informative and reliable text that covers a vast range of topics. It is also firmly based upon the author's research and interest in plant taxonomy and therefore fully acknowledges the importance of correct naming and classification in the field of science of economic botany. The coverage is of economic botany in its broadest sense. I was delighted to find such topics as ecophysiology, plant breeding, the environment and conservation are included in the text. This gives the book a much more comprehensive coverage than most other texts on the subject. I was also glad to see that the book covers the use of various organisms that are no longer considered part of the plant kingdom such as various species of fungi and algae. It is indeed a broad ranging book that will be of use to many people interested in the uses of plants and fungi. Economic botany is once again being given more prominence as a discipline because of its enormous relevance to both conservation and sustainable development. Those people involved in those topics shOUld find this a most useful resource.

Download or read book Advances in Economic Botany written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Popular Medicinal Plants in Portland and Kingston, Jamaica written by Ina Vandebroek and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the results from over a year of ethnobotanical research in a rural and an urban community in Jamaica, where we interviewed more than 100 people who use medicinal plants for healthcare. The goal of this research was to better understand patterns of medicinal plant knowledge, and to find out which plants are used in consensus by local people for a variety of illnesses. For this book, we selected 25 popular medicinal plant species mentioned during fieldwork. Through individual interviews, we were able to rank plants according to their frequency of mention, and categorized the medicinal uses for each species as “major” (mentioned by more than 20% of people in a community) or “minor” (mentioned by more than 5%, but less than 20% of people). Botanical identification of plant specimens collected in the wild allowed for cross-linking of common and scientific plant names. To supplement field research, we undertook a comprehensive search and review of the ethnobotanical and biomedical literature. Our book summarizes all this information in detail under specific sub-headings.

Download or read book Economic Botany written by S. L. Kochhar and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provides vivid information about the history of plant exploration, migration, domestication, distribution and crop improvement"--

Download or read book World Economic Plants written by John H. Wiersema and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 1336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the frequent movement of commercial plants outside their native location, the consistent and standard use of plant names for proper identification and communication has become increasingly important. This second edition of World Economic Plants: A Standard Reference is a key tool in the maintenance of standards for the basic science underlyin

Download or read book Textbook Of Economic Botany written by Verma V. and published by Ane Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: