Ethnobotany: Plants and People
Concepts
Plants that provide Fibers, Wood, and Chemicals
Food Plants
Plants that provide drugs
Plants that supply Proteins, Oils, and Vitamins
Plants that provide flavors: Herbs and Spices
Plants that supply Carbohydrates
Wood
Chemicals
Fibers
Fertile Crescent
Gluten
Bran
Glycemic Index
Cereal Grains
Complete Protein
Legume
Incomplete Protein
Complementary Protein
Antioxidants
Scientific study of relationships
A region that stretches from southeastern Turkey to western Afghanistan
Plants that can be ingested #
Toxic Plants that can not be ingested #
Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
Psychoactive Substance also known as marijuana
Death camus
Wolfbane
Suicide Tree
Devil's trumpet
Poison Ivy
Coffee
Tea
Plants that can be harmful to ingest
Opium
Cocaine
Tobacco
Small fruits of grasses, each with one seed
Example: Wheat, Rice, Corn, Oats, Rye, and Barley
The seed coat and fruit wall together of each caryopsis
Contains significant amounts of the elastic protein
Genetically modified organism (GMO)
Based on the body's reaction to pure glucose, which is set at 100
Beans, Peas, Lentils, peanuts, chickpeas, and many other foods
A protein source that has all 20 amino acids
A protein source that is low in one or more of 20 amino acids
One has larger amounts of the amino acids that other lacks
Protect cells from dangerous oxygen free radicals
Engineered Woods
Old Growth Forests
Artisan Woods
Drying Oils
Waxes
Resins
Rubber
Hard Fibers
Wood Fibers
Bast Fibers
Extraxylary Fibers
Xylary Fibers
Single-cell fibers that occur in Xylem hardwood trees
Single-cell fibers that occur anywhere
Occur in Phloem, Cortex, and Bark
Extracted from leaves
Derived from wood
Carbon-Carbon double bond
Forms a thin polymeric protective water-resistant film
Forest that have never been logged
Woods produced by gluing small pieces of wood together
Wood that is valued for the beauty of the wood
except in xylem hardwood trees
to make anew type of wood
between plants and people
produced by photosynthesis
Atropine
Rapid heart rate, hallucinations, seizures, and usually death
Interferes with sodium metabolism in heart
Aconitine
Zigadenus sp.
Cerbera odollum
Toxicodendron radicans
Strychnine Tree
Disrupts chloride ions in nerve cells
Strychnos nux-vomica
Strychnine
Nicotine
Nicotiana tabacum
Morphine and codeine
Papaver somniferum
Latex from young fruits
Ancient Crop
Amplifies dopamine neurotransmitters
Erythoxylum novogranatense
Dioecious
Cannabis sativa
Camellia sinensis
Phenols
Coffea arabica
Ethnobotany is part of the relationship where plants can be ingested
Ethnobotany is intertwined with drugs people use
Ethnobotany is part of all types of plants that are in relationship with humans
Wood should not be ingested