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World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
Plants are essential to human wellbeing, supporting important ecosystem services that are critical components of Natural Capital. They supply food, medicine, fibre, fuel and building materials, and provide a broad spectrum of benefits to society, offering vital solutions to some of the world’s major challenges, including bioenergy, human and animal...Diazgranados, Mauricio ; Allkin, Bob ; Black, Nicholas ; Cámara-Leret, Rodrigo ; Canteiro, Cátia …
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A maloca entre artefatos e plantas : guia da coleção Rio Negro de Richard Spruce em Londres.
A publicação é resultado das atividades desenvolvidas no âmbito do projeto de repatriação digital de coleções bioculturais, isto é, coleções de objetos feitos com matérias-primas provenientes de plantas e animais, que foram coletados na Amazônia brasileira, no passado, e que hoje se encontram guardados em instituições na Europa. O guia... -
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Festive flora.
Festive Flora is a celebration of the plants integral to religious, cultural and national festivities around the world, used as decoration in wreaths, garlands and shrines, for their scent, and in festive recipes. 40 botanical paintings of this merry group are gorgeously reproduced from Kew’s Library and Archives, one of...Nesbitt, Mark ; White, Lydia
Cultural heritage, Decoration, Recipes, Plants in religion, Botanical art, and Festivals
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Repurposing Economic Botany for the Twenty-first Century.
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Journal article
Enviados directo a Londres: objetos colombianos en la Colección de Botánica Económica del Real Jardín Botánico de Kew.
Este artículo es el resultado de una valoración de los objetos colombianos en la Colección de Botánica Económica del Real Jardín Botánico de Kew. Hace parte del proyecto ColPlantA, encargado de documentar la colección colombiana y de producir un portal de búsqueda sobre la flora colombiana. Para este artículo se... -
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Genome sequencing of up to 6,000-yr-old Citrullus seeds reveals use of a bitter-fleshed species prior to watermelon domestication.
Iconographic evidence from Egypt suggests that watermelon pulp was consumed there as a dessert by 4,360 BP. Earlier archaeobotanical evidence comes from seeds from Neolithic settlements in Libya, but whether these were watermelons with sweet pulp or other forms is unknown. We generated genome sequences from 6,000- and 3,300-yr-old seeds... -
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Genome Sequencing of up to 6,000-Year-Old Citrullus Seeds Reveals Use of a Bitter-Fleshed Species Prior to Watermelon Domestication.
Iconographic evidence from Egypt suggests that watermelon pulp was consumed there as a dessert by 4,360 BP. Earlier archaeobotanical evidence comes from seeds from Neolithic settlements in Libya, but whether these were watermelons with sweet pulp or other forms is unknown. We generated genome sequences from 6,000- and 3,300-year-old seeds...
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