Given the importance of studying the knowledge, beliefs, and practices of migrant communities to understand the dynamics of plant resource use, we reviewed the scientific literature concerning the use of medicinal plants by migrant populations engaged in international or long-distance migrations. We considered the importance of two processes: (1) adaptation to the new flora of the host country ...

Mycelial characteristics of dikaryotic collections of 6 medicinal polypore mushrooms (Fomes fomentarius, Fomitopsis pinicola, Ganoderma adspersum, G. applanatum, G. lucidum, and G. resinaceum) with different geographical origins (Armenia, China, France, Iran, Italy, and Russia) were screened. A total of 42 polypore collections were molecularly identified by sequencing the internal transcribed s...

Using data sourced from the SANBI MedList database, the most comprehensive inventory of ethnomedicinal plants for the Flora of southern Africa region, taxa were grouped by order. A least squares regression analysis was used to test the null hypothesis that the use of these plants by traditional healers is strictly random. The above approach, following a North American study by Moerman (1979), s...

Medicinal plants are globally valuable sources of herbal products, and they are disappearing at a high speed. This article reviews global trends, developments and prospects for the strategies and methodologies concerning the conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plant resources to provide a reliable reference for the conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants. We emphasized th...

PREMISE OF THE STUDY Begonia fimbristipula (Begoniaceae) is a medicinal herb distributed in the Chinese provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang, and it is on the verge of extinction due to habitat destruction and deterioration of its ecosystem. Here we developed a set of highly polymorphic microsatellite markers for population genetic and conservation studi...

The Bigoudine watershed (Western High Atlas) enjoys a floristic originality and large number of plant species therapeutic aromatic interest widely used by the local population in traditional medicine. This region is subject to very difficult geographical conditions occupied poor with fairly high rate illiteracy. Ethnobotanical surveys phytoecological carried out two periods, first 2003–2004 sec...

Newberiy's I860 Catalogue of 1,377 species was the first annotated checklist of Ohio's vascular plants. Five similar works were published during the next 72 years. The last, Schaffner's 1932 Catalog, listed 2,309 species. Since 1950, studies for the Ohio Flora Project and related projects have produced further additions to the known flora. In 1961,1 estimated that Ohio's vascular plant flora wo...