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Past, present and future of local crop evolution

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Promoting agrobiodiversity is a promising strategy for mitigating the negative effects of climate change on global food security. We highlight the central role evolutionary processes play in harnessing the potential of local crops by integrating genomics, archaeology, ethnobotany and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK).
Nataly Allasi Canales   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is Ethnobotany and Ecological Science? Steps towards a complex Ethnobotany [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
There are different links between ecology and ethnobotany. In principle, because they have some common interests, like the conservation of plant resources.
Hurrell, Julio Alberto   +1 more
core   +3 more sources

RUBIACEAE

open access: yesBothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation, 2010
FIRST RECORD OF GEOPHILA IN SOUTHERN ...
N. R. Crouch, R. Edwards
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of Various Solvent Extracts of Tetrastigma leucostaphylum (Dennst.) Alston Leaves, a Bangladeshi Traditional Medicine Used for the Treatment of Diarrhea

open access: yesMolecules, 2020
Tetrastigma leucostaphylum (TL) is an important ethnic medicine of Bangladesh used to treat diarrhea and dysentery. Hence, current study has been designed to characterize the antidiarrheal (in vivo) and cytotoxic (in vitro) effects of T.
Sajib Rudra   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Plants, people and their shared heritage: A comparative medicinal and wild food ethnobotany of Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians living in the Gjirokaster area, southern Albania

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Traditional knowledge about wild plants connects people to nature and sustains both cultural identity and biodiversity. This study explores how cultural exchange among Albanians, Greeks and Aromanians in southern Albania shapes the use and naming of medicinal and food plants.
Evanthia Dina   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resilience and adaptability of traditional healthcare systems: a case study of communities in two regions of Brazil

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2019
The traditional healthcare systems (THS) of communities in two different regions of Brazil were investigated through the lens of social-ecological resilience, assuming that the resilience of THS and of the communities influence each other.
Sofia Zank   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Validity of Integrated Islamic Ethnobotany Textbooks Based on the 3D PageFlip Application

open access: yesBiosfer: Jurnal Tadris Biologi, 2020
Based on the analysis of needs, it is known that Ethnobotany learning in the Biology Tadris study program at IAIN Palangka Raya has not used integrated Islamic teaching materials, lecturers and students need integrated Islamic Ethnobotany textbooks that ...
Isnaini Siwi Handayani   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Harnessing the nutritional potential of Cape wild edible plants: Insights, gaps and priorities

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Wild edible plants hold significant potential to strengthen food systems by enhancing nutrition, dietary diversity, climate resilience, sustainability and deeper connection of people to their food. In this study, we conducted a systematic literature review to identify knowledge gaps and assess the nutritional contributions of selected wild edible ...
Nicola Kühn   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medicinal Plants: Advances in Phytochemistry and Ethnobotany

open access: yesPlants, 2023
Prance once defined Ethnobotany as an interdisciplinary Science combining Anthropology and Botany [...]
Dâmaris Silveira, Fabio Boylan
doaj   +1 more source

Botanic and heritage gardens as living laboratories in the age of the polycrisis

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Societal Impact Statement Cities face intertwined crises of climate, biodiversity loss and social disconnection. We show how botanic and heritage gardens can help address these challenges as living laboratories to generate place‐based evidence and public engagement.
Kevin Frediani
wiley   +1 more source

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