BACKGROUND This research was carried out in a scarcely populated area of the Middle Agri Valley (Basilicata region, southern Italy). The aim of the study was to record local knowledge on the traditional uses of wild food plants, as well as to collect information regarding the practices (gathering, processing and cooking) and the medicinal uses related to these plants. METHODS Fifty-eight peop...

the purpose of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of implementation quality management system (iso 9001:2000) in gas processing plants of national iranian gas company using balanced scorecard approach. more specifically, we chose the balanced scorecard framework to examine five well-known gas processing plants in national iranian gas company from four different perspectives in order...

!y the year 2000 the worldwide market for biotechnology-derived food and agricultural products could be valued at tens to hundreds of billions of dollars. The results of the rapid pace of biological research since 1970 indicate that we are only scratching the surface of the potential. We define biotechnology broadly, as the use of biological systems, including micro-organisms or components prod...

BACKGROUND The paper presents the first ethnobotanical application of Ellenberg indicator values, which are widely used in European plant ecology. The aim of the study was to find out if Ellenberg values (indicating habitat preferences) differ for wild food and medicinal plants used in north-eastern Istria (Croatia). We used Ellenberg-Pignatti values (the version of Ellenberg values used in thi...

Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz.) is the major source of calories for subsistence farmers in subSaharan Africa. Cassava, however, contains potentially toxic levels of the cyanogenic glucoside, linamarin. The cyanogen content of cassava foods can be reduced to safe levels by maceration, soaking, rinsing and baking; however, short-cut processing techniques can yield toxic food products. Our obj...