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Selection of medicinal plants for traditional medicines in Nepal
Background There are handful hypothesis-driven ethnobotanical studies in Nepal. In this study, we tested the non-random medicinal plant selection hypothesis using national- and community-level datasets through three different types of regression: linear model with raw data, linear model with log-transformed data and negative binomial model. Methods For each of these model, we identified over ...
Medicinal plants meet modern biodiversity science
Medicinal plants can be used to highlight the need for conserving larger ecosystems in which these species occur. ... The latter — how these interactions arose — is the least understood and most challenging component of our hypothesis. One avenue for exploration is to characterize 'medicinal' use of plants by other animals. Ecologists, ...
Medicinal Plants: A Public Resource for Metabolomics and Hypothesis
Acknowledgments. Medicinal Plant Consortium (MPC) is a NIH supported project (GM092521) that consists of 13 collaborating research units from 7 institutions focused on providing transcriptomic and metabolomic resources for 14 key medicinal plants to the worldwide research community.
Availability, diversification and versatility explain human selection
Introduction. Understanding how people select plants for medicinal use has been a central question in ethnobotany [].Early ethnobotanical studies showed that people use a large proportion of available plant species [].The number of medicinal plants used by a community or region generally increases with the species richness of the local flora [], and is neither random nor temporally static.
Medicinal Plant Analysis: A Historical and Regional Discussion of
Introduction . Medicinal plants have been a resource for healing in local communities around the world for thousands of years. Still it remains of contemporary importance as a primary healthcare mode for approximately 85% of the world's population (Pešić, 2015), and as a resource for drug discovery, with 80% of all synthetic drugs deriving from them (Bauer and Brönstrup, 2014).
Testing the non-random hypothesis of medicinal plant selection using
Medicinal plants have been used by local communities to treat all sorts of diseases, and this unique indigenous knowledge has been documented in various studies. However, using this vast knowledge to formulate and test hypothesis in ethnobotany is not yet a common practice in the discipline despite recent calls for more hypothesis-driven ethnobotanical researches. Here, we collected ...
A phylogenetic evaluation of non‐random medicinal plants selection
The hypothesis of non-random medicinal plants selection predicts that certain plant families are rich in secondary chemistry, and as a result, are overutilised for medicine purpose (Moerman, 1979). Here 'overutilised' does not necessarily mean over-harvested. Overutilised plant families are those that are used more frequently than expected ...
The Inclusion and Selection of Medicinal Plants in Traditional
The diversification hypothesis suggests that traditional communities incorporate exotic medicinal plants into their medical repertoire in order to diversify the local medicinal stock. According to this hypothesis, we would expect that exotic plants contain large amounts of secondary compounds or types of secondary compounds that are distinct ...
Genomics and Evolution in Traditional Medicinal Plants: Road to a
A few principles should be considered when selecting medicinal plants for whole-genome sequencing projects: first, source plants of well-known and expensive CMMs or important chemical drugs that are in heavy demand, eg, Panax ginseng 5,6 and Artemisia annua 7; second, representative plants whose pharmaceutical components are relatively unambiguous and that have typical secondary metabolism ...
Ecological Theories and Major Hypotheses in Ethnobotany ...
The cross-cultural exchange of plant resources between societies across the globe added to the diversification of medicinal floras and pharmacopeias. Understanding how and why people select plants for medicine is still a common focus and topic addressed by the interdisciplinary research fields of ethnobotany, anthropology, ethnopharmacology, ethnomedicine, pharmacy, phytochemistry, and ...
Comparative phylogenetic methods and the cultural evolution of ...
Traditional knowledge of medicinal plants is rich and varied, with uses differing between cultures. Cultural evolutionary theory, particularly phylogenetic comparative methods, provide a framework ...
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tive compounds than native medicinal plants (Alencar et al. 2010). ... C. Plant use value hypothesis (Phillips and Gentry 1993a, b) D. Theory of non-random plan t selection (Mo erman.
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uses reported for introduced and native medicinal plants, but it has found mixed support (Alencar et al. 2010). The versatility hypothesis, in this broader sense, overlaps with the plant use value hypothesis (see below), as use value indices are largely versatility indices, and therefore, these two theories could benefit from further integration.
Evolutionary prediction of medicinal properties in the genus
Here, we investigate the influence of medicinal plant use classification in a phylogenetic context, using the genus Euphorbia L. (Euphorbiaceae) as an example. With about 2,000 recognized species ...
Medicinal plants: a public resource for metabolomics and hypothesis
Medicinal Plant Metabolomics Resource (MPM) [1] provides a framework for generating experimentally testable hypotheses about the metabolic networks that lead to the generation of specialized compounds, identifying genes that control their biosynthesis and establishing a basis for modeling metabolism in less studied species.
Predicting potential medicinal plants with phylogenetic topology
Materials and methods: Herein, we prepared a database of 7,451 traditional Chinese medicinal (TCM) plants, including species with therapeutic effects grouped in 14 categories. To limit our exploration of novel therapeutic species, we plotted the medicinal effects on the phylogenetic tree of almost 30,000 species of China to find hot nodes of ...
Diversity
Although residence time is a direct predictor of the medicinal status of alien plants, it is a better predictor when mediated through plant versatility. ... Yessoufou, K.; Rampedi, I.T. Testing the non-random hypothesis of medicinal plant selection using the woody flora of the Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. Environ. Dev. Sustain. 2021, 23 ...
Advances in Research on the Medicinal Value of Plants
Currently, the bioactive compounds of plant origin have been and still are an important source for the modern drug industries. Due to the unembellished restraints of synthetic drugs and the growing contraindications of their usage, there is a growing interest in the world in the usage of natural products based on medicinal plants and herbs.
The resource availability hypothesis revisited: a meta‐analysis
1. Several theories have provided a framework for understanding variation in plant defence against herbivores. Among them, the plant apparency theory and the resource availability hypothesis (RAH) have aimed to explain the patterns of defence investment and the selective pressures that have led to the variety of defensive strategies across species.
Conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants: problems
Background. Medicinal plants are globally valuable sources of new drugs [1-4].There are over 1300 medicinal plants used in Europe, of which 90 % are harvested from wild resources; in the United States, about 118 of the top 150 prescription drugs are based on natural sources [].Furthermore, up to 80 % of people in developing countries are totally dependent on herbal drugs for their primary ...
Predicted roles of long non-coding RNAs in abiotic stress tolerance
The plant genome exhibits a significant amount of transcriptional activity, with most of the resulting transcripts lacking protein-coding potential. Non-coding RNAs play a pivotal role in the development and regulatory processes in plants. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), which exceed 200 nucleotides, may play a significant role in enhancing plant resilience to various abiotic stresses, such as ...
Re-examining hypotheses concerning the use and knowledge of medicinal
Results. Forty-eight plant species were cited as having medicinal uses, of which 56.25% are native to the Caatinga region. The patterns of harvesting and the importance of these trees and shrubs as medicinal plants seem to be compatible with a hypothesis based on the seasonal availability of plant resources.
Hold my ointment: Wild orangutan observed healing wound with medicinal
by Basten Gokkon on 14 May 2024. Researchers observed a wild orangutan in Sumatra treating a facial wound with a plant known for its healing properties, marking the first documented case of such ...
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Background There are handful hypothesis-driven ethnobotanical studies in Nepal. In this study, we tested the non-random medicinal plant selection hypothesis using national- and community-level datasets through three different types of regression: linear model with raw data, linear model with log-transformed data and negative binomial model. Methods For each of these model, we identified over ...
Medicinal plants can be used to highlight the need for conserving larger ecosystems in which these species occur. ... The latter — how these interactions arose — is the least understood and most challenging component of our hypothesis. One avenue for exploration is to characterize 'medicinal' use of plants by other animals. Ecologists, ...
Acknowledgments. Medicinal Plant Consortium (MPC) is a NIH supported project (GM092521) that consists of 13 collaborating research units from 7 institutions focused on providing transcriptomic and metabolomic resources for 14 key medicinal plants to the worldwide research community.
Introduction. Understanding how people select plants for medicinal use has been a central question in ethnobotany [].Early ethnobotanical studies showed that people use a large proportion of available plant species [].The number of medicinal plants used by a community or region generally increases with the species richness of the local flora [], and is neither random nor temporally static.
Introduction . Medicinal plants have been a resource for healing in local communities around the world for thousands of years. Still it remains of contemporary importance as a primary healthcare mode for approximately 85% of the world's population (Pešić, 2015), and as a resource for drug discovery, with 80% of all synthetic drugs deriving from them (Bauer and Brönstrup, 2014).
Medicinal plants have been used by local communities to treat all sorts of diseases, and this unique indigenous knowledge has been documented in various studies. However, using this vast knowledge to formulate and test hypothesis in ethnobotany is not yet a common practice in the discipline despite recent calls for more hypothesis-driven ethnobotanical researches. Here, we collected ...
The hypothesis of non-random medicinal plants selection predicts that certain plant families are rich in secondary chemistry, and as a result, are overutilised for medicine purpose (Moerman, 1979). Here 'overutilised' does not necessarily mean over-harvested. Overutilised plant families are those that are used more frequently than expected ...
The diversification hypothesis suggests that traditional communities incorporate exotic medicinal plants into their medical repertoire in order to diversify the local medicinal stock. According to this hypothesis, we would expect that exotic plants contain large amounts of secondary compounds or types of secondary compounds that are distinct ...
A few principles should be considered when selecting medicinal plants for whole-genome sequencing projects: first, source plants of well-known and expensive CMMs or important chemical drugs that are in heavy demand, eg, Panax ginseng 5,6 and Artemisia annua 7; second, representative plants whose pharmaceutical components are relatively unambiguous and that have typical secondary metabolism ...
The cross-cultural exchange of plant resources between societies across the globe added to the diversification of medicinal floras and pharmacopeias. Understanding how and why people select plants for medicine is still a common focus and topic addressed by the interdisciplinary research fields of ethnobotany, anthropology, ethnopharmacology, ethnomedicine, pharmacy, phytochemistry, and ...
Traditional knowledge of medicinal plants is rich and varied, with uses differing between cultures. Cultural evolutionary theory, particularly phylogenetic comparative methods, provide a framework ...
tive compounds than native medicinal plants (Alencar et al. 2010). ... C. Plant use value hypothesis (Phillips and Gentry 1993a, b) D. Theory of non-random plan t selection (Mo erman.
uses reported for introduced and native medicinal plants, but it has found mixed support (Alencar et al. 2010). The versatility hypothesis, in this broader sense, overlaps with the plant use value hypothesis (see below), as use value indices are largely versatility indices, and therefore, these two theories could benefit from further integration.
Here, we investigate the influence of medicinal plant use classification in a phylogenetic context, using the genus Euphorbia L. (Euphorbiaceae) as an example. With about 2,000 recognized species ...
Medicinal Plant Metabolomics Resource (MPM) [1] provides a framework for generating experimentally testable hypotheses about the metabolic networks that lead to the generation of specialized compounds, identifying genes that control their biosynthesis and establishing a basis for modeling metabolism in less studied species.
Materials and methods: Herein, we prepared a database of 7,451 traditional Chinese medicinal (TCM) plants, including species with therapeutic effects grouped in 14 categories. To limit our exploration of novel therapeutic species, we plotted the medicinal effects on the phylogenetic tree of almost 30,000 species of China to find hot nodes of ...
Although residence time is a direct predictor of the medicinal status of alien plants, it is a better predictor when mediated through plant versatility. ... Yessoufou, K.; Rampedi, I.T. Testing the non-random hypothesis of medicinal plant selection using the woody flora of the Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. Environ. Dev. Sustain. 2021, 23 ...
Currently, the bioactive compounds of plant origin have been and still are an important source for the modern drug industries. Due to the unembellished restraints of synthetic drugs and the growing contraindications of their usage, there is a growing interest in the world in the usage of natural products based on medicinal plants and herbs.
1. Several theories have provided a framework for understanding variation in plant defence against herbivores. Among them, the plant apparency theory and the resource availability hypothesis (RAH) have aimed to explain the patterns of defence investment and the selective pressures that have led to the variety of defensive strategies across species.
Background. Medicinal plants are globally valuable sources of new drugs [1-4].There are over 1300 medicinal plants used in Europe, of which 90 % are harvested from wild resources; in the United States, about 118 of the top 150 prescription drugs are based on natural sources [].Furthermore, up to 80 % of people in developing countries are totally dependent on herbal drugs for their primary ...
The plant genome exhibits a significant amount of transcriptional activity, with most of the resulting transcripts lacking protein-coding potential. Non-coding RNAs play a pivotal role in the development and regulatory processes in plants. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), which exceed 200 nucleotides, may play a significant role in enhancing plant resilience to various abiotic stresses, such as ...
Results. Forty-eight plant species were cited as having medicinal uses, of which 56.25% are native to the Caatinga region. The patterns of harvesting and the importance of these trees and shrubs as medicinal plants seem to be compatible with a hypothesis based on the seasonal availability of plant resources.
by Basten Gokkon on 14 May 2024. Researchers observed a wild orangutan in Sumatra treating a facial wound with a plant known for its healing properties, marking the first documented case of such ...