Edition 2001-2002
WELCOME to Ethnobotanical Leaflets . Our Policy Corner has a new editorial that everyone interested in research funding should read, it's entitled, "NSF Extends Invitation for Ethnobotanical Workshop Proposal". In Ethno News you'll find a story about biowarfare being used for the elimination of drug plants and another on new herbal research at the University of Chicago. Also in this section is a story on the balsameros of Acachapa, El Salvador and the efforts that are underway to assist them in recovering their watershed from the devistation of Hurricane Mitch. The section on Worldwide Economic Botany Resources has an interesting link to "HerbalGrams," a publication of the American Botanical Council. There are also new links to various ethnobotanical projects and organizations around the world. This issue of Ethnobotanical Leaflets also features artist Karen Nisbett in the section entitled, Galleria Botanica . Enjoy. As always, contributions from our readers are welcome.
Web Journal
--Your source of information on Economic Plants--
Barley; The Versatile Crop, by Brian Young
The Brazil Nut (Bertholletia excelsa ), by Tim Hennessey
Ephedra (Ma Huang ), by Erica McBroom
Ephedra: Asking for Trouble, by Scot Peterson
Ginkgo biloba , by Kelly Westall
Cyperus papyrus : From the Nile to Modern Times, by Matt Burmeister
The Miraculous Reishii: Mushroom or Medicine, by Dylan Kosmar
St. John's Wort...A Peculiar Name for an Interesting Plant, by Jennifer Lynn Craig
Back Issues of Ethnobotanical leaflets and Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fall 1997
Winter 1998
Summer 1998
Fall 1998
Spring 1999
Summer 1999
Fall 1999
Winter 2000
Spring/Summer 2000
Book Review Corner
The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
The Shaman's Apprentice by Lynne Cherry and Mark J. Plotkin
Medicinal Plants of the Heartland by Connie Kaye and Neil Billington
Potions, Poisons, and Panaceas by David Brussell
Origin and Early Diversification of Land Plants by P. Kenrick & P.R. Crane
Research Notes
Ethnobotanical Leaflets Starch Research Page
Agriboard, Use of Non-timber Cellulose for Construction
The Inclusive Herbarium by Edgar Anderson
How to Define a Species
Rain Forest Medicines, an interview with Mark Plotkin
Archaeological Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes in Peru, by D. Ugent & L.W. Peterson
Ethno News and Happenings
US Uses Biowarfare to Combat Drugs, by Scott Herron
New Herbal Research Center at Univ. Chicago, by M. K. Van Zant
Post-Hurricane Watershed Restoration in Acachapa, El Salvador
Editorship of Economic Botany changes hands
Galleria Botanica
Botanical images by Karen Nisbett
Three botanical images by Lynette Rene Cook
Hibiscus telescope by Lynette Rene Cook
Swedish Museum, Fungal Art
Swedish Museum, Cryptagamic Art
Wayne Renshaw, How to Model a Plant
Meetings
Society for Economic Botany: Home Page & News of Annual Meeting
Society for Ecological Restoration, Liverpool
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, Lisbon
Careers in Ethnobotany
New Ethnoecology Position at University of Hawaii
Job Listings from the Chronicle of Higher Education
An Introduction to Ethnobotany by C. Veilleux and S.R. King
Graduate Programs in Ethnobotany
Undergraduate Studies in Ethnobotany
Policy Corner
NSF Extends Invitation for Ethnobotanical Workshop by MKVZant
Call for Economic Botany/Ethnobotany Cluster at NSF by MKVZant
Editorial Policy
Worldwide Economic Botany Resources
Society for Economic Botany Home Page
American Botanical Council HerbalGram
The Amazon Conservation Team
The Ethnobotany Project
Medicinal Plants of the Peruvian Amazon
Useful Plants
Ethnobotany in the Forests of Belize
Kinabalu Ethnobotany Project (PEK)
Secwepemc Ethnobotany
Native American Food Plants, U.S. National Agricultural Library
Medicinal Plants of Native Americans, U.S. National Agricultural Library
Amazon Rain Forest Includes Ethno-herpatology
The Gatherer: Plant Use Multiple Database Search Engine
Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL)
Ethnobotany Database, U.S. National Agricultural Library
WWW Ethnobotany Resource Directory
People and Plants Online
Seed Savers Exchange
Cyberbotanica: Plants and Cancer Treatments
Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops
New Crop Resource Online Program
Internet Directory for Botanical Illustrations
Kew's list of over 200 Web sites of interest to economic botanists
Economic Botany Web Pages, from the Internet Directory for Botany
Phytochemicals, U.S. National Agricultural Library
Books Needing Reviewers for Journal of Economic Botany
Related Web Pages
Plants and Society (Plb 117)
Don Ugent's Home Page
Southern Illinois University Herbarium
Protocells: The Origin of Life
Tropical Dinoflagellates
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