Economic Botanist Research Articles

Dr. S. K. Jain, F. N. A. Awarded Distinguished Economic Botanist (1999)

Dr. S. K. Jain, F. N. A. Awarded Distinguished Economic Botanist (1999)

The Egyptians' Use of Spices from “Attarin Market” In Folk Medicine, a Survey Study

ABSTRACT: Economic botanists investigate the relationship between humans and plants to understand how plants are used in culture, where some foods come from, and how to use plant resources sustainably. A large proportion of the general population in developing countries still uses traditional folk medicines derived from plant sources. Bioactive compounds in medicinal plants have always attracted great interest from scientists in this field. Egypt is famous of the folkloric medicine plants. This is considered the main source for new medicines discoveries. The methods of cure and herbal prescriptions are generally not written down. These skills are passed from one generation to the other through apprenticeship and once forgotten may not be revived again. This research aims to focus on the traditional uses of some herbs and spices which have medicinal property and be used as a functional food for humans in Greater Cairo area, Egypt for thousands of years. Ethno-botanical field trips were done in different Attarin Markets of Cairo province. The various data concerning 30 species (local name, locations, medical uses, parts of plant used… etc), were recorded. The information was gathered using a questionnaire distributed through the ethno-botanical interviews. The results were discussed and different recommendations were suggested.

Quality Evaluation of Grains, Flour and Dough of Some Varieties of Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) for Chapati and Bread Making

Ten varieties of wheat were obtained from Economic Botanist (Rabi Cereals) Section, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur for their chapati and bread making quality. The range of variability was exhibited in grain characters like test weight (37.78–44.35 g), grain hardness (10.17 to 11.30 kg/grain) and phenol colour reaction (excellent to unsuitable). The flour characteristics like contents of protein (10.30 to 13.45%), dry gluten (4.52–7.10%) and sedimentation value (7.64–21.56 ml) as well as that of dough characteristics like water absorption (60–70%) and ball dough colour and appearance (light white to creamy white) varied significantly.

Study on heterosis and combining ability through diallel mating analysis in F1 generation of Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Estimation of combining ability by half diallel analysis and magnitude of heterosis was conducted at Section of Rabi Cereals, C. S. A. University of Agriculture Science and Technology, Kanpur, UP, in a set of 10 parents received from Economic Botanist Region, Section of Rabi Cereals, Kanpur by making 45 cross combinations evaluated during winter and Rabi 2012-13 in RBD with three replications. The data on nine characters viz. days to 50 % flowering, Plant height, No. of tillers/plant, Spike length/plant, No. of grains/main spike, Days to maturity, 1000-grain weight and Grain yield/plant were utilized for present study. On the basis of GCA effects across eight charactersK9423 and K9533 (-0.76) are good and desirable for days to 75% flowering for crop improvement, grain yield per plant observed for PBW502 and PBW343. The most promising crosses showing significantly positive SCA effects for yield per plant K9423xHD2285and PBW502xPBW343, days to maturity is showing significantly negative SCA effect for NW2036xHD2285 (-9.68). Heterosis is estimated highest over better parent for yield per plant was HD2285xK9533 (16.15). These crosses should be exploited for further advancement in breeding programme for HYVs and early maturity, simultaneously.

Distinguised Economic Botanist Award

The Society for Economic Botany has increasingly defined itself as a context for fostering expertise in ethnobotany and its various applications. However, given that my own work as an ethnobotanist has been much influenced by my training as an anthropologist, there may be merit in re-examining the 'economic' in economic botany from the standpoint of anthropology. In this address I suggest that economic anthropology provides a useful framework through which to interrogate the notions of 'use' and 'value' attributed to plant resources, and to understand how plants move - by exchange and dissemination - through socio-economic systems, how plant knowledge informs decision-making, and how ethnobotanical knowledge is socially embedded. Each of these processes rests on the foundational idea that all plants with which humans interact are necessarily and simultaneously biological and cultural. Such perspectives may even help us rethink the still sometimes unresolved issues as to what 'theory' in ethnobotany actually entails

Distinguished Economic Botanist Award

Distinguished Economic Botanist Award

The Secret of Shangri-La: Agricultural Travels and the Rise of Organic Farming Discourse

The Secret of Shangri-La: Agricultural Travels and the Rise of Organic Farming Discourse

Distinguished Economic Botanist Award

Distinguished Economic Botanist Award

Professor Norman Farnsworth Dies at 81

Prof. Norman R. Farnsworth, a renowned medicinal plant researcher and a giant in the field of pharmacognosy, died September 12, 2011 in Chicago. Dr Farnsworth graduated with a degree in pharmacy from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in 1953. He subsequently undertook postgraduate studies in pharmacognosy at the University of Pittsburgh, receiving his PhD in 1959. He was instrumental in instituting a pharmacognosy PhD program at the University of Pittsburgh and was its inaugural chair. In 1970, Prof. Farnsworth accepted a post in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Illinois, Chicago, serving as Departmental Head from 1970-1982. In this role he mentored more than 100 PhD students, 30 MS students and 30 postdoctoral fellows.Prof Farnsworth was a leading researcher in pharmacognosy, publishing hundreds of research papers in peer reviewed international journals. Furthermore, he co-founded the journals Phytomedicine and the International Journal of Phytotherapy and Phytopharmacology. His many other achievements include:• founding member of the American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP) (1959).• founding member of the American Society of Economic Botany (1959).• creation of the Natural Products Alert (NAPralert) database at the University of Illinois.• Principal Investigator and Director of the Botanical Dietary Supplements for Women’s Health Centre, the University of Illinois.• co-founder of the American Botanical Council (ABC) and a long serving member of its board of trustees.• recipient of numerous international awards including the SEB’s Distinguished Economic Botanist Award in 1983.• member on the Commission on Dietary Supplements Labels, a commission established to develop recommendations for the review of quality, safety, benefits and labelling of dietary supplements.Prof Farnsworth has been an inspiration to many of us in the field of pharmacognosy and will be especially missed by his family and the numerous colleagues who have been fortunate in knowing this giant of pharmacognosy.

Medical memorials in the Linnean binomial taxonomy

Dr Conacher’s fascinating account of Dr John Dickinson in this issue of the Journal, 1 and particularly his picture of Dickinson’s kestrel (Falco dickinsoni), put me in mind of other species of fauna and flora that have been named after medical practitioners in the Linnean binomial taxonomy. For example, considering other medically qualified explorers, there were present on David Livingstone’s Zambesi expedition of 1858–1864 several individuals who would have known John Dickinson, specifically Dr John Kirk (1832–1922), Dr Charles James Meller (c. 1833–1869) and Dr David Livingstone (1813–1873) himself, 2 each of whom has species named after him. As ‘economic botanist’ as well as medical officer to the expedition, John Kirk identified many plant species and sent communications during his time in Africa to journals, including the Transactions of the Botanical Society and the Journal and Transactions of the Linnean Society. Plant species bearing his name are Psychotria kirkii and Uapaca kirkiana. Following the Zambesi Expedition, Kirk worked in the Consulate in Zanzibar during which time he identified the Zanzibar red colobus (Piliocolobus kirkii), a small leaf-eating monkey also known as Kirk’s red colobus and found only in Zanzibar and now classified as an endangered species. Charles James Meller, who succeeded Kirk as medical officer on the Zambesi expedition, afterwards went to Madagascar as Vice-Consul where he identified a species of dabbling duck known as Meller’s duck (Ansa melleri) and now listed as an endangered species. Livingstone’s fruit bat or flying fox (Pteropus livingstonii) is a bat found only on two islands in the Comoros group located off the eastern coast of Africa between northern Madagascar and north-eastern Mozambique, whence a number of ‘Johanna men’ accompanied the Zambesi expedition. The rarest and largest of all Comorian bat species, these animals defend themselves by spraying urine at potential predators. Again, this is a threatened species due to destruction of its preferred forest habitat. (Both Meller’s duck and Livingstone’s fruit bat may be seen at the Durrell Wildlife

A Dilemma: Economic/Ethnobotanical Research in the Twenty-first Century

W. Hardy Eshbaugh: 2007 Distinguished Economic Botanist It is indeed an honor to introduce this year’s Society for Economic Botany’s Distinguished Economic Botanist, Dr. W. Hardy Eshbaugh. His life has already spanned four careers, any one of which would have distinguished any ordinary mortal. He has not only been an outstanding researcher, but he has been a superlative teacher, organizer, administrator, and conservation leader as well. I will touch briefly on some of the highlights of each of these professional directions. Hardy’s research career has focused on investigations of the origin and evolution of Capsicum (chili peppers) and the flora and biogeography of the Bahamas. His published works include two books, over 100 research articles, and more than 20 book reviews. His chili pepper research has taken him to many parts of Central America, the Amazon, and Andean South America. In addition to his New World field studies, he has conducted research in East Africa and South Africa and has participated in several international meetings on the botany of sub-Saharan Africa.

Bavarian plant collectors in Greece — 1. Franz Xaver Berger, Franz Zuccarini and Carl Nikolaus Fraas

Abstract Kalheber, H.: Bavarian plant collectors in Greece — 1. Franz Xaver Berger, Franz Zuccarini and Carl Nikolaus Fraas. — Willdenowia 36 (Special Issue): 565–578. — ISSN 0511-9618: © 2006 BGBM Berlin-Dahlem. doi:10.3372/wi.36.36153 (available via http://dx.doi.org/) Short biographies are presented of three Bavarian plant collectors in Greece. Franz Xaver Berger (1806–1834), a catholic priest, and Franz Zuccarini (1799?–1833), the brother of the Munich Professor Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, came to Greece with King Otho in 1833. Both died in Nauplia. The third, Carl Nikolaus Fraas (1810–1875), came to Athens in 1835, evolved in Greece from a pure plant systematist to an economic botanist, and returned to Munich in 1841, where he became later Director of the Royal Central School of Veterinary Medicine and Professor at the University.

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S. K. Jain, 1999 Distinguished economic botanist

S. K. Jain, 1999 Distinguished economic botanist

EthnobotanyPrinciples and Applications By C. M. Cotton. Roehampton Institute, London. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY. 1996. ix + 424 pp. 15 × 22.5 cm. $49.95. ISBN 0-471-95537-X.

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVBook ReviewNEXTEthnobotanyPrinciples and Applications By C. M. Cotton. Roehampton Institute, London. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY. 1996. ix + 424 pp. 15 × 22.5 cm. $49.95. ISBN 0-471-95537-X.James A. DukeView Author Information Economic Botanist (ret.) USDA, Beltsville, MarylandCite this: J. Nat. Prod. 1997, 60, 8, 865–866Publication Date (Web):August 22, 1997Publication History Published online22 August 1997Published inissue 1 August 1997https://doi.org/10.1021/np970081lCopyright © 1997 American Chemical Society and American Society of PharmacognosyRIGHTS & PERMISSIONSArticle Views80Altmetric-Citations-LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit Read OnlinePDF (45 KB) Get e-AlertsSUBJECTS:Food,Organic reactions,Plant biology,Plants,Steroids Get e-Alerts

The Society for economic botany 1995 Distinguished economic botanist

The Society for economic botany 1995 Distinguished economic botanist

Mildred Esther Mathias Hassler September 19, 1906-February 16, 1995 1993 Distinguished Economic Botanist

Mildred Esther Mathias Hassler September 19, 1906-February 16, 1995 1993 Distinguished Economic Botanist

Linnaeus as an Economic Botanist

Summary The interest of Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) in the uses of plants as manifested in his travel books and dissertations was much influenced by the urge of his country, war-impoverished Sweden, for national recovery and self-sufficiency. His official Swedish journeys of 1741–1749 were primarily economic surveys, giving much attention to locally used dye-plants. The dissertation Pan Suecicus (1749) details experimental feeding of cattle, pigs, sheep and goats with native Swedish plants: it also represents an important stage in the development of the Linnaean binomial method for naming species.

TWO CENTURIES OF ECONOMIC BOTANISTS AT KEW: Part 1

Curtis's Botanical MagazineVolume 10, Issue 2 p. 84-94 TWO CENTURIES OF ECONOMIC BOTANISTS AT KEW: Part 1 G. E. Wickens, G. E. WickensSearch for more papers by this author G. E. Wickens, G. E. WickensSearch for more papers by this author First published: May 1993 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8748.1993.tb00023.xAboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume10, Issue2May 1993Pages 84-94 RelatedInformation

Norman W. Simmonds, Sc.D. 1991 Distinguished Economic Botanist

Norman W. Simmonds, Sc.D. 1991 Distinguished Economic Botanist