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genomic ethnobotay
08 August 2015 2,559 3 View
except Dr. Duke's site? (http://www.ars-grin.gov/duke/)
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What is your experience or offer(s)?
07 July 2015 2,826 17 View
By your own decision, by searching whole literature in the world, or what else?
07 July 2015 2,739 8 View
I have some useful data from a previous work on agrobiodiversity and ethnobotany from 2006-2007. Despite of their goodness and usefulness, unfortunately I could not publish them. Does anyone know...
06 June 2015 5,501 0 View
I encountered them during my ethnobotanical survey in Ghana and Burkina Faso. Scientific name =?, Red beans(scientific name: Phaseolus vulgaris L.?), White beans (scientific beans:Phaseolus...
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I am almost certain of the first photo to be Sorghum bicolor L. What is the species of second photo? Sorghum ........... The local people gave different vernacular names and I guess these are also...
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What to do if after years of research one finds that the PhD topic he/she has been working coincides exactly with someone else? Please provide your valuable suggestion. Thank you.
04 April 2015 355 4 View
No doubt vernacular names are useful in identifying the plant scientifically but it is not always possible since a single vernacular name may refer to different plants in different area. Moreover...
03 March 2015 5,796 28 View
It is usually found that the reducing power assay is concentration dependent and increases with increase in concentration. However in my experiment taking different parts of the same plants (in...
02 February 2015 7,858 8 View
This categorization may be based on socioeconomic, agronomic, phytochemical, genetic... works. We are working on “lanta”, productive “dkar”, unproductive “dkar” and sterile categories from the...
02 February 2015 5,652 0 View
There might be some probable reasons for what and who inspired you to choose your field of research. Please share your experience.
01 January 2015 7,614 15 View
Datura metel is a poisonous plant, but some people plant it around their compounds. Why?
01 January 2015 6,211 6 View
Today earning a doctorate may not be as difficult as it was years ago. Before a researcher used to work for years and study day and night to obtain the prestigious prefix 'Dr.' but now a days...
01 January 2015 4,650 10 View
Today the terminology "Rich in antioxidants" has been easily equated in the public mind with "beneficial". Are all plants rich in such antioxidants or here also exception do exists? If the...
12 December 2014 8,334 21 View
I need its exact meaning
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Oliver, B. (1959). Medicinal Plants in Nigeria. Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, Ibadan.Thanks in advance! Regards.
12 December 2014 755 1 View
I have some funds to study traditional knowledge of immigrant groups in urban settings. The references are scarce.
11 November 2014 3,404 22 View
Could they be Native American in origin? Mima mounds dot areas of the Western USA, and nobody has come up with a good geologic reason for their existence. However, I am proposing that they were...
11 November 2014 4,086 12 View
The flower is white and the dispersion is by wind when it matures. It has a woody stem at maturity and it I also perennial. The smell of the leaves is stronger than the sunflower. I have an idea...
10 October 2014 4,429 16 View
Because of deforestation, forest degradation and climate change; range, phenophase and morphology and even biochemicals of indigenous medicinal plants have been changed. And this alteration could...
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