To him, traditional knowledge still has great value in honing our search for tomorrow’s drugs. He made his point by creating a family tree (a phylogeny) of over 20,000 plant species from New ...

Honoring traditional knowledge of plant foods and medicines held by Indigenous Peoples in the Americas Special issue on “Ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology in the Americas” illustrates ...

That was the extent of Morales' medicinal plant knowledge before she attended a National Science Foundation presentation in 2009 on medicinal plants that grow in the Dakotas. She found that many ...

But traditional knowledge could be a rich resource for drug discovery, ... 17,810: The number of plant species that have a medicinal use, ...

We’ve learned a lot about plants throughout this series, but there’s much more to discover. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll peek into the future of botany.

Knowledge of Caribbean ethnobotany has so far been limited and little comprehensive island- or region-wide inventories of Caribbean traditional plant knowledge have been developed.

Meders-Knight shared her deep traditional knowledge of Mechoopda heritage, describing the tribe’s kinship with the healing properties of the plants and the earth.

Regina G. Barber talks with Dr. Rosalyn LaPier about ethnobotany--what it is and how traditional plant knowledge is frequently misunderstood in the era of COVID and psychedelics. And, how it's ...

Worldwide, some 80,000 different species of flowering plant are used medicinally by an array of human cultures, and aligning this traditional knowledge with Western science is likely to yield ...

Host Regina G. Barber talks with Rosalyn LaPier about ethnobotany--what it is and how traditional plant knowledge is frequently misunderstood in the era of COVID and psychedelics. And, how it's ...

Crops: Plant species cultivated and domesticated to satisfy the needs of humans. Cultigens: ... Brush, S. B. Farmers' Rights and Protection of Traditional Agricultural Knowledge.

So by connecting to traditional knowledge, future botanical research may help bring under-used plants onto the menu. Plants may also play a supporting role as we tackle humanity’s biggest ...