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    Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times. Plants synthesize...
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    Plants that produce toxins and/or cause irritation on contact are referred to as poisonous plants. The toxins in poisonous plants affect herbivores, and...
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    various aspects of horticulture such as fruits, vegetable, ornamental, medicinal and aromatic plants and mushrooms in India. The institute has its headquarters...
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  • Materia Medica Medicinal mushrooms Medicinal plants of the American West Medicinal plants traditionally used by the indigenous peoples of North America...
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    Botany (redirect from Study of plants)
    called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist...
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    the Institute of Biology and Medicinal Plants; the Sun Institute was merged with the Institute of Physics and Mathematics to become the Institute of Solar...
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    velcro plant and sticky plants . Galium is Dioscorides’ name for the plant. It is derived from the Greek word for ‘milk’, because the flowers of Galium...
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    metabolites found in plants, the functions of these compounds in human and plant biology, and the biosynthesis of these compounds. Plants synthesize phytochemicals...
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    from other plants or fungi. Historically, as in Aristotle's biology, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included...
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    Pharmacognosy is the study of crude drugs obtained from medicinal plants, animals, fungi, and other natural sources. The American Society of Pharmacognosy defines...
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  • In biology, taxonomy (from Ancient Greek τάξις (taxis) 'arrangement', and -νομία (-nomia) 'method') is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing)...
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    into much larger and more heterogeneous genera. Likewise, plants which shared common medicinal properties, such as the many species of Euphorbia, were...
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    preoccupation with the medicinal properties of plants that lasted more than 1000 years. During this time, the medicinal works of classical antiquity were...
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  • Djaja Soejarto (category University of Illinois Chicago faculty)
    Ethnobotany of Tuberculosis in Laos and Medicinal Plants of Laos. He is the recipient of the 2022 Tyler Prize Award from the American Society of Pharmacognosy...
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    has increased and the use of traditional medicinal plants is being encouraged in some countries. The medical diagnoses and chosen methods of treatment in...
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    The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose...
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    Ameenah Gurib-Fakim (category Grand Commanders of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean)
    Adsersen, A. (1998). "Antibacterial and Antifungal Activity of Medicinal Plants of Mauritius". Pharmaceutical Biology. 36 (3): 153–161. doi:10.1076/phbi...
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    for atropine. "Poisonous Vascular Plants". cals.ncsu.edu. North Carolina State University Department of Plant Biology. 2000. Archived from the original...
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  • Work on plant adaptation studies and high altitude medicinal plants are further strengthened by the field lab ”Centre for High Altitude Biology (CeHAB)...
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    Biology of Plants (8th ed.). New York: W. H. Freeman and Company. pp. 213–17. ISBN 978-1-4292-1961-7. Evert RF, Eichhorn SE (2013). Raven Biology of Plants...
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    Ziziphus oenopolia (category Medicinal plants of Asia)
    of Basic and Applied Sciences. 6 (1): 1–9. Retrieved 2024-03-06. Kuvar, Sachin D. & Bapat, U.C. (2010). "Medicinal plants used by Kokani tribals of Nasik...
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    Plant Blindness'. Scientists[according to whom?] have suggested that the reason some people don't notice plants is because plants are stationary and similarly...
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    Tagetes erecta (category Medicinal plants)
    of between 20 and 90 cm (7.9 and 35.4 in). The Aztecs gathered the wild plant as well as cultivating it for medicinal, ceremonial and decorative purposes...
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    Jabuticaba (category Plants described in 1956)
    Fruits, Herbs and Flowers. Tuttle Publishing. p. 59. ISBN 9781462916221. Lim, T.K. (February 9, 2012). Edible Medicinal And Non Medicinal Plants: Volume 3...
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    Chandra Prakash Kala (category Year of birth missing (living people))
    ecologist and professor. His research interests include alpine ecology, conservation biology, indigenous knowledge systems, ethnobotany and medicinal aromatic...
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    theories and methods that have been traditionally used in the physical sciences Botany – study of plants Cell biology (cytology) – study of the cell as...
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    Lycoris radiata (category Garden plants)
    spider lilies are appreciated as ornamental and medicinal plants in various countries all across Asia, Europe and in the United States. Before being placed...
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    determined and remains fixed throughout the life of a plant. Non-drug plants produce relatively low levels of THC and high levels of CBD, while drug plants produce...
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    Australasia, and the Andes. Some Viola species are perennial plants, some are annual plants, and a few are small shrubs. Many species, varieties and cultivars...
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    population density, and conservation of threatened medicinal plants in protected areas of the Indian Himalayas. Conservation Biology, 19 (2): 368–378. Kala...
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