Wilks, Marion (2012) Economic botany & its applications. The English Press, Delhi, India. ISBN 9788132339885
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Abstract
Economic botany can be very broadly defined as a study of relationships between plants and people. Economic botany contributes significantly to anthropology, biology. conservation, botany, and other fields of science. This link between botany and anthropology explores the ways humans use plants for food, shelter, medicines, textiles, and much more History of economic botany Botany itself came about through medicine and the development of herbal remedies Thus at its advent, botany was economic as well as systematic. As plants became useful for herbals and curatives, their economic value increased. An early set of instructions drawn up by a cosmographer of Charles the fifth instructed explorers to "determine what are the items of sustenance of the land and which onse are generally used, whether fruits or seeds, and all manner of spices, drugs, or whatever." other scents, and find out the time in which one can reproduce the trees, plants, herbs, and fruits that these parts offer, and if the natives use them for medicines, as we do. Teosintes and rice are two examples of plant modified that their economic values would increase. The teosintes are grasses of the gemas Zea. Native Americans bred and selected teosinte for the traits we see in com today (large cars, multiple rows of kernels). The first cars of maize were very short, with only 8 rows of kernels Modern com is the result of several hundred generations of selective breeding. Modern corn is incapable of reproducing without human help, the kernels will stay firmly attached to the cob and rot. This doesn 't represent a useful adaptation for the species, but is excellent for harvesting and transporting corn.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QK Botany |
| Divisions: | Electronic Books |
| Depositing User: | Esam @ Hisham Muhammad |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Feb 2023 06:48 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Feb 2023 06:48 |
| URI: | http://odlsystem2.utm.my/id/eprint/3985 |
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