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Publisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
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Total Pages: 500
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henri Noël Le Houérou
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 512
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Published: 1980
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Abena Dove Osseo-Asare
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-01-13
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 022608616X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to unfulfilled promises of laboratory equipment and usurped personal patents. In Bitter Roots, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare draws on publicly available records and extensive interviews with scientists and healers in Ghana, Madagascar, and South Africa to interpret how African scientists and healers, rural communities, and drug companies—including Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Unilever—have sought since the 1880s to develop drugs from Africa’s medicinal plants. Osseo-Asare recalls the efforts to transform six plants into pharmaceuticals: rosy periwinkle, Asiatic pennywort, grains of paradise, Strophanthus, Cryptolepis, and Hoodia. Through the stories of each plant, she shows that herbal medicine and pharmaceutical chemistry have simultaneous and overlapping histories that cross geographic boundaries. At the same time, Osseo-Asare sheds new light on how various interests have tried to manage the rights to these healing plants and probes the challenges associated with assigning ownership to plants and their biochemical components. A fascinating examination of the history of medicine in colonial and postcolonial Africa, Bitter Roots will be indispensable for scholars of Africa; historians interested in medicine, biochemistry, and society; and policy makers concerned with drug access and patent rights.
Author: Cyrus McKell
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2012-12-02
Total Pages: 677
ISBN-13: 032314361X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Biology and Utilization of Shrubs brings together the wide range of information about shrubs from many disciplines and world locations. The book is organized into seven parts. Part I describes the major shrublands found on each of the vegetated continents. It provides an overview of the dominant shrubland types as well as the associated features of soil and climate that influence the geographic distribution of major shrub species. Part II discusses environmental influences and plant responses. Part III considers the range of genetic diversity for important traits and how these may vary in different habitats. Part IV discusses the effects of stress on physiological processes of shrubs, and the kinds of strategies shrubs employ to meet physiological stress. Part V offers evidence to support the claim that the many virtues of shrubs provide a basis for sustaining shrub use for livestock fodder, wildlife habitat, reclamation and erosion control, fuel, and naturalized landscaping. Part VI outlines methods for collecting and processing seeds from natural stands or from superior genotypes planted in seed production orchards. Part VII describes cultural adaptation to shrub use in a livestock-dominated primitive culture, followed by a detailed economic analysis of establishing shrub plantations to improve livestock production.
Author: Michel Arbonnier
Publisher: Editions Quae
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9782876145795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vinay Sharma
Publisher: Rastogi Publications
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9788171339174
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1. Introduction to Bioinformatics 2. Introduction to Computers 3. Introduction to Internet 4. Search Engines: Tools for Web Search 5. Programming Languages 6. Genomics and Proteomics 7. Biological Databases 8. Sequence Analysis 9. Phylogenetic Analysis 10. Microarray Technology: A Boon to Biological Sciences 11. Bioinformatic..s in Drug Discovery: A Brief Overview 12. Genome Sequencing Projects 13. BTIS Network In India Index
Author: Iain J. Gordon
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-09-14
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 3540724222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume investigates how large herbivores not only influence the structure and distribution of the vegetation, but also affect nutrient flows and the responses of associated fauna. The mechanisms and processes underlying the herbivores' behavior, distribution, movement and direct impact on the vegetation are discussed in detail. It is shown that an understanding of plant/animal interactions can inform the management of large herbivores to integrate production and conservation in terrestrial systems.
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Publisher: Agroamerica
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9789290392064
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