of a large amount of date palms cultivated and harvested in iran, only about 11 – 12 annual percent is used in food processing and packaging industries. due to the poorq uality of produced dates, it is regarded as waste and is mainly used as feed stocks. thus, through producing syrup and liquid sugar from date palm of low quality could be regarded as a new opportunity to convert waste dates to ...

The aim of this work is to present aspects related to the ecology of Rhodnius nasutus Stål, 1859 in palms from Chapada do Araripe in Ceará, Brazil. The following five species of palms were investigated: babaçu (Attalea speciosa), buriti (Mauritia flexuosa), carnaúba (Copernicia prunifera), catolé (Syagrus oleracea) and macaúba-barriguda (Acrocomia intumescens). Fifth palms were dissected (10 sp...

Palms (Arecaceae) are prominent elements in African traditional medicines. It is, however, a challenge to find detailed information on the ritual use of palms, which are an inextricable part of African medicinal and spiritual systems. This work reviews ritual uses of palms within African ethnomedicine. We studied over 200 publications on uses of African palms and found information about ritual ...