During the peak of interest in botany and plant collecting in Britain from 1760 and 1820, a garden, in Clare Hickman's telling, could be many different things at once: farm, ornament, research center, social space, and menagerie. Productivity provide... Read More
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The Doctor's Garden: Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain
- Agricultural History
- VOL. 97
on Feb 1, 2023
- Histories Of Science
- New Forms Of Labor
- Garden History
- Interest In Botany
- Class-based Discrimination
- Garden Gate
- More +
Curating with Communities for Well-being: Exploring an Amgueddfa Cymru–National Museum Wales Biocultural Collection through Community Workshops
- Museum and Society
- VOL. 20
on Nov 1, 2022
- Economic Botany
- Well-being Of Future Generations
- Amgueddfa Cymru
- Community Workshops
- Conservation Of Biological Diversity
- Animal Origin
- More +
Biocultural collections include specimens of plant and animal origin, artefacts and documentation. They are important resources for the conservation of biological and cultural diversity, as well as for education and research. Curation of biocultural ... Read More
Consider the Coconut: Scientific Agriculture and the Racialization of Risk in the American Colonial Philippines
- Journal of Transnational American Studies
- VOL. 13
on Aug 24, 2022
- Economic Botany
- North American Consumers
- Discourses Of Risk
- Acres Of Land
- Plantation Labor
- Coconut Plantation
- More +
This article invokes the “molecular intimacies of empire” to illuminate the links between the superfood status of coconut oil and plantation labor in the American colonial Philippines. Prior to the American occupation in 1898, coconuts were a local c... Read More
Sacred weeds: common ritual plants from the urban botánicas of Miami-Dade County, Florida
- Ethnobotany Research and Applications
- VOL. 22
on Aug 11, 2021
- Economic Botany
- Ritual Plants
- Miami-Dade County
- Syncretic Religions
- Sacred Rituals
- African Taxa
- More +
Background: Practitioners of syncretic religions often incorporate plants into their sacred rituals, a unique practice that helps keep them connected to their cultural history. An important example of ritual plant use is found in the botánicas (relig... Read More
Compounds Isolated from the Ethyl Acetate Fraction of Canna edulis Ker Gawl Rhizomes
- VNU Journal of Science: Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- VOL. 37
on Jun 27, 2021
- Economic Botany
- Caffeic Acid
- Methyl Caffeate
- Food Science Technology
- Nitric Oxide Production In RAW264
- Lipopolysaccharide-induced Nitric Oxide Production
- More +
Three compounds were isolated from the rhizome part of Canna edulis for the first time including liquiritigenin, methyl caffeate and uracil. Their structures were elucidated by spectroscopic methods as MS and NMR.
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 Canna edulis Ke... Read More
A global database of plant services for humankind
- PLOS ONE
- VOL. 16
on Jun 15, 2021
- Wellbeing Of Future Generations
- Complete Compilation
- Authoritative Websites
- Animal Nutrition
- Providers Of Resources
- Database Of Services
- More +
Humanity faces the challenge of conserving the attributes of biodiversity that may be essential to secure human wellbeing. Among all the organisms that are beneficial to humans, plants stand out as the most important providers of natural resources. T... Read More
Detecting seminal research contributions to the development of ethnobotany by reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS)
- Nordic Journal of Botany
- VOL. 39
on May 1, 2021
- Economic Botany
- RPYS
- Reference Publication Year
- Materia Medica
- Carolus Linnaeus
- Publication Year
- More +
This study aims to assess the growth in overall publication output in ethnobotany as well as provide a systematic examination of the history of ethnobotanical publications using reference publication year spectroscopy (RPYS). The study is based on 52... Read More
From ‘pure botany’ to ‘economic botany’ – changing ideas by exchanging plants: Spain and Italy in the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century
- History of European Ideas
- VOL. 48
on Apr 28, 2021
- Economic Botany
- Changing Ideas
- Early Nineteenth Century
- Plant Specimens
- Late Eighteenth
- Case Studies
- More +
ABSTRACT At the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the 19th, Spain and the Italian States contributed to the development of European agricultural science and the improvement of manufacturing. They collaborated with each other and reworked... Read More
Antimicrobial Activity of Necklace Orchids is Phylogenetically Clustered and can be Predicted With a Biological Response Method
- Frontiers in Pharmacology
- VOL. 11
on Mar 12, 2021
- Hot Nodes
- Antimicrobial Activity
- Biological Response
- Coelogyne Cristata
- Nuclear Ribosomal ITS
- Antimicrobial Properties
- More +
Necklace orchids (Coelogyninae, Epidendroideae) have been used in traditional medicine practices for centuries. Previous studies on a subset of unrelated orchid species utilized in these traditional practices revealed they possessed antimicrobial, an... Read More
Identification, Mapping and Ethnobotany of Plant Species in the Peruvian High Andean Wetlands: Stimulating Biodiversity Conservation Efforts towards Sustainability
- Journal of Sustainable Development
- VOL. 14
on Feb 19, 2021
- Economic Botany
- High Andean Wetlands
- Population Growth
- Flood Mitigation
- Rich Flora
- Purification Of Water
- More +
The high Andean wetlands of Peru provide not only the well-known ecosystem services such as water storage, flood mitigation, erosion control, and purification of water, but are also a source of income for local economies (as fodder), have medicinal p... Read More
Review: Just the Tonic: A Natural History of Tonic Water, by Kim Walker and Mark Nesbitt
- Gastronomica
- VOL. 21
on Feb 1, 2021
- Tonic Beverages
- Tonic Water
- Causation Of Malaria
- Magnificent Tree
- Sort Of Way
- Royal Botanic Gardens
- More +
The next time you sip your gin and tonic, spare a thought for Doña Francisca Henríques de Ribera, countess of Chinchón and wife of the viceroy of Peru. When the beautiful countess lay languishing and feverish on her deathbed sometime around 1630, she... Read More
Sixty Years with the Chrysobalanaceae
- The Botanical Review
- VOL. 87
on Dec 14, 2020
- Economic Botany
- Pantropical Family
- Generic Boundaries
- Large Genera
- Molecular Evidence
- Molecular Studies
- More +
A review is given of the studies of Ghillean Prance and associates on the Chrysobalanaceae over the past sixty years. This has focussed on defining the generic boundaries in the family and on monographic work with a worldwide approach to this pantrop... Read More
Ethnobotany of Elaeis guineensis Jacq. and its importance in the household economy of the Ikale and Ilaje of Ondo State, Nigeria
- Ethnobotany Research and Applications
- VOL. 20
on Nov 25, 2020
- Economic Botany
- Indigenous Methods
- Oil Palm
- African Oil Palm
- Crops In Nigeria
- Oil Palm Tree
- More +
Background: African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.), a perennial crop that originated from Tropical rainforest of West Africa, is one of the most important economic oil crops in Nigeria providing income for rural and semi-urban folks. This study d... Read More
Mudurnu’da Sürdürülebilir Turizm Gelişiminde Etnobotanik
- Black Sea Journal of Engineering and Science
- VOL. 3
on Oct 1, 2020
- Sustainable Tourism
- Gastronomic Culture
- Local Gastronomy
- Local People
- Sustainable Tourism Development
- Traditional Food Resources
- More +
Ethnobotany is the study of plants used, conserved and managed by the local people. It deals with local people knowledge of a particular use of plants in gastronomical, medical, religious, and other purposes. Ethnobotany is a rapidly growing scientif... Read More
A Review on Taxonomy, Phytochemistry, Pharmacology, Threats and Conservation of Elaeocarpus L. (Elaeocarpaceae)
- The Botanical Review
- VOL. 86
on Aug 31, 2020
- Economic Botany
- trnF Sequences
- Plastid trnL
- IUCN Red List
- Micropropagation Techniques
- Nuclear ITS
- More +
The genus Elaeocarpus is considered as largest among the family Elaeocarpaceae recorded by ca. 360 species with significant distribution throughout the world except from Africa and America. This review provides elaborate and comprehensive details on ... Read More
Using ICPC-2 Standard to Identify Thai Zingiberaceae of Pharmacological Interest
- Plants
- VOL. 9
on Jul 17, 2020
- ICPC
- Number Of Useful Species
- CI
- ICF
- Local Peoples
- Pharmacological Potential
- More +
The Economic Botany Data Collection Standard (EBDCS) is a widely used standard among ethnobotanists. However, this standard classifies ethnomedicinal uses into categories based on local peoples’ perception. It is difficult to apply in pharmacological... Read More
Between Metropole and Province: circulating botany in British museums, 1870–1940
- Archives of Natural History
- VOL. 47
on Apr 1, 2020
- Economic Botany
- Botanical Objects
- Glasgow Museums
- Manchester Museum
- Botanical Museum
- Regional Museums
- More +
Exchange of duplicate specimens was an important element of the relationship between metropolitan and regional museums in the period 1870–1940. Evidence of transfers of botanical museum objects such as economic botany specimens is explored for the R... Read More
Historical chemical annotations of Cinchona bark collections are comparable to results from current day high-pressure liquid chromatography technologies
- Journal of Ethnopharmacology
- VOL. 249
on Mar 1, 2020
- Current Day
- HPLC Analysis
- Alkaloid Content
- Major Alkaloids
- HPLC
- Total Alkaloid Content
- More +
Species of the genus Cinchona (Rubiaceae) have been used in traditional medicine, and as a source for quinine since its discovery as an effective medicine against malaria in the 17th century. Despite being the sole cure of malaria for almost 350 year... Read More
Ferdinand von Mueller’s phytochemical laboratory
- Historical Records of Australian Science
- VOL. 31
on Jan 1, 2020
- Economic Botany
- Wood Distillation
- Government Botanist
- Tanning Materials
- Technology Community
- Laboratory Chemists
- More +
Victoria’s government botanist and, at the time, Director of the Botanic Garden, Ferdinand von Mueller had a strong interest in the possible industrial and medicinal uses of plant products (economic botany), for which he established a phytochemical l... Read More
KEW GARDENS AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE SCHOOL MUSEUM IN BRITAIN, 1880–1930
- The Historical Journal
- VOL. 63
on Dec 2, 2019
- Economic Botany
- Botanical Specimens
- Museum Objects
- Distribution Of Artefacts
- Programmes Of Reform
- Resource For Learning
- More +
AbstractThe idea of the school museum as an active resource for object-based learning played an important but now neglected part in programmes of educational reform during the closing decades of the nineteenth century and the opening decades of the t... Read More