Reite Plants is a documentation and discussion of the uses of plants by speakers of the Nekgini language, a people who reside in the hinterland of the Rai Coast in northern Papua New Guinea. High quality images and detailed information about traditional customary practices using plants provide a unique entry into understanding Nekgini social and cultural life. The book contains a discussion of …
How do we understand the boundaries of individual creatures? What are the systems of interdependency that bind all living creatures together? Plants were among the the first to colonize the planet. They created the soil and the atmosphere that made life possible for animals. They are some of the largest and oldest life forms on Earth. In spite of their primacy, Western cultures have traditional…
This book presents the results from the palynological and paleoecological studies conducted with my participation in Southwestern Bulgaria during the period 1985-2020. The study area has always played a key role in the investigation of the Late Quaternary vegetation history in Bulgaria since the middle of the past century. With the development of the research methods (pollen analysis, determina…
Flora Malesiana. Series I - Seed Plants, Volume 14. Myristicaceae
The purpose of this second edition of The Code Decoded is to serve as a user’s guide to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (“Code”), specifically the Shenzhen Code (Turland & al., 2018). My objective, as for the first edition (Turland, 2013), has been to create a text that is reasonably clear and simple, which inevitably means it will fail to cover every r…
“It is a milestone in subaltern studies, a biographical journey penned by a living relic of the indentured experience and a scholar whose thoroughly interdisciplinary approach is a good example for the anthropologist, the sociologist or the economist who wish to see the proper integration of their disciplines in a major historical work.” Brinsley Samaroo, University of the West Indies, St A…
Plant cell culture provides a renewable and an easily scalable source of plant metabolites. Several strategies such as manipulating the nutrient, optimizing the culture conditions, feeding of precursor and elicitation can be applied in order to substantially increase the yields of Secondary Metabolites in plant cell cultures. Hence in present scenario, In Vitro process is a promising Eco friend…
edicinal and Aromatic plants participating remarkable role in primary health care of the peoples over the world. Forest is a main source for collection of the traditional medicinal plants. Presence of plant species in certain ecological areas is related to several ecological factors like water, temperature, light, pH etc. and also by various biotic factors. Uses of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants…
Medicinal and Aromatic plants participating remarkable role in primary health care of the peoples over the world. Forest is a main source for collection of the traditional medicinal plants. Presence of plant species in certain ecological areas is related to several ecological factors like water, temperature, light, pH etc. and also by various biotic factors. Uses of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant…
The traditional knowledge and use of medicinal plant species from the plant family Asteraceae was reviewed for the treatment of several types of cancers in Aizawl District, Mizoram, Northeast India. Traditional healers and patients suffering from various cancers in the study area were interviewed with the help of local translators to congregate the information for the use of medicinal plant…