Title: Living in a global world: ethnobotany, local knowledge and sustainability. 58th Annual Meeting of the Society for Econo-mic Botany. Book of Abstracts
Coordination: Ana Maria Carvalho, Manuel Pardo de Santayana & Rainer Bussmann
Edition: Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Centro de Investigação de Montanha & Society for Economic Botany · 2017
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Organizing Committee
Ana Maria Carvalho – Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Centro de Investigação de Montanha, Portugal João Azevedo – Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Centro de Investigação de Montanha, Portugal Manuel Pardo de Santayana – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, España
Rainer Bussmann – Missouri Botanical Garden, William L. Brown Center, United States of America Cassandra Quave – Emory University, United States of America
Gayle Fritz – Washington University, St. Louis, United States of America
Steven Casper – Society for Economic Botany President, Cheverly, MD, United States of America Atilano Suarez – Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Serviços de Imagem, Portugal
Isabel Sá – ALDEIA, Associação para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Portugal Maria de Jesus Caldeireiro – Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Escola Superior Agrária, Portugal
Nuno Carvalho – Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, CIESA, Portugal Sónia Cruz – Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, GIAPE, Portugal
Heather Cacanindin – Society for Economic Botany Office, United States of America Robert Brandt – Society for Economic Botany Office, United States of America Sandra Bogdanova – Society for Economic Botany Student Representative
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ook of AbstractsEthnomedicinal plant diversity in Thailand. ... 65
Edible wild flora of Guinea-Bissau (West Africa) – plants used and species with valuation possibilities. ... 65
The research of Josip Bakić on nonconventional sources of food at the coast of ex-Yugoslavia (1962-1986 and after). ... 66
Biomass production and nutrient concentration on potted Stevia in response to N, P, K or B fertilization. ... 66
Ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology and natural products: challenges and
trends – Session 4
Chair: Sonia Peter, Barbados Comunity Colleage, Bardados Thursday, June 8, 14h30 – Auditório Dionísio Gonçalves Invasive weed to WMD: episodes in the remarkable culture history of the Castor Bean. ... 68Quilombo ethnomedicine: how ‘Africanized’ are Brazilian Maroon Pharmacopoeias? ... 68
Should LEK be shared in a changing world? Evidences from an ethnobotanical survey in Morocco. ... 69
Quantitative ethnobotany of Namaqualand, South Africa. ... 69
Patterns in medicinal plant knowledge and use in a Maroon village in Suriname. ... 70
An ethnobotanical review on uses of the Turkish Gundelia genus. ... 70
Assessing the abundance of non-timber forest products in relation to forest succession on the Wild Coast, South Africa. ... 71
Onopordum species of Turkey and their ethnobotanical uses. ... 71
The “Plants and People of Vanuatu” Project [Plants mo Pipol blong Vanuatu]: a long term multidisciplinary study. ... 72
Agrobiodiversity and traditional knowledge: conservation strategies and
sustainable development – Session 1
Chair: Laura Aceituno-Mata, Instituto Madrilleno de Investigación y Desarrollo Rural y Alimentário (IMIDRA), Spain Tuesday, June 6, 11h00 – Auditório Pequeno Plant use, globalization and tradition in Palau: The Ngasech (First Born) ceremony and food. ... 74Traditional plant-based remedies used to treat wolf bite injuries in Portugal and Spain: phytotherapeutic sources and cultural values for the conservation of an emblematic animal species. ... 74
Denominations of origin and other related formal tools: relations with local knowledge, genetic resource conservation, product development and public awareness in Italy. A preliminary approach. ... 75
Agrobiodiversity and Sustainability in the 21st Century: necessary as the analytic nexus or the next anthem of future agroecology and food systems? ... 75
Seeds of transition and local knowledge in Cuban organic agriculture. ... 76
Drivers of biological and biocultural diversity in Pacific Island agroecosystems. ... 76
Narragansett Food Sovereignty Initiative and climate change (NE Coast USA). ... 77
The politics of food research: plant genes, patents, and political sense-making. ... 77
A pot full of memories: merging biocultural diversity and organic farming in Sierra Norte de Madrid, Spain. ... 78
Agrobiodiversity and traditional knowledge: conservation strategies and
sustainable development – Session 2
Chair: Zbynek Polesny, Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic Tuesday, June 6, 14h30 – Auditório Pequeno Local ecological indicators for the conservation of wild populations of Sideritis raeseri Boiss. & Heldr. in Prespa National Park, Albania. ... 80Consumption of wild edibles by Vasava tribals: implications for sustenance and conservation of indigenous nutritional knowledge. ... 80
Diversity of wild edible plants in Hani terraced paddy rice agroecosystem in Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China. ... 81
Trends in agrobiodiversity for quinoa and some wild relatives: underutilized crops and wild species for sustainable agricultural production in Peru. ... 81
Diversity of edible plants in food systems of Bugis, Mandar, Minang and Acehnese cocoa farmers in Indonesia. ... 82
Local ecological knowledge as a tool for a sustainable territorial management in Gorbeialdea (Biscay, Basque Country). ... 82
Assessing the contribution of wild plants to organic food systems in Austria. ... 83
Strategies for traditional knowledge retention and adaptation in a migrating world: a case study of Bosnian refugees in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. ... 83
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ook of AbstractsThe research of Josip Bakić on nonconventional sources of food
at the coast of ex-Yugoslavia (1962-1986 and after).
Authors: Jug-Dujaković, Marija [1], Łuczaj, Łukasz [2].
Josip Bakić, biologist from Split, Croatia, took the main professional role in the mili-tary macro-project “Survival in the Nature” that lasted for 26 years. The project is a unique example of combining a scientific study with a practical military experiment: inventari-sation of edible plants and animals was done, the possibility of soldiers’ and citizens' survival on the Adriatic coast and islands based on wild plants and marine and terrestrial animals was explored; wild food plants and animals from the nature that had been used by the population from the east Adriatic coast during World War I and II were surveyed; phytochemical properties of wild edible plants and animals were assessed, and their pres-ervation was studied. The results of the macro-project were disseminated to the public through scientific papers and presentations, workshops, film documentaries, and survival book and handbook. The macro-project “Survival in Nature” is the only example in history in which military experiments on foraging were documented to such an extent and over such a long period of time, with the results made available to the public.
Keywords: Foraging, Famine, World War II, Josip Bakić, Wild edible plants, Wild foods, Sea food, Adriatic Coast, Survival.
Affiliation: 1 - Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation, Split, Department of Plant Sciences, Put Duilova 11, Split, 21000, Croatia; 2 - University of Rzeszów, Institute of Applied Biotechnology and Basic Sciences, Werynia 502, Kolbuszowa, 36-100, PL
Biomass production and nutrient concentration on potted Stevia in
response to N, P, K or B fertilization.
Authors: Afonso, Sandra Cristina Pereira [1], Arrobas, Margarida [1], Rodrigues, Manuel Ângelo [1].
Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) is a perennial plant belonging to Asteraceae family, native
from Amambay region, between Brazil and Paraguay. It has been used for centuries by Guarani Indians as a sweetener and to treat diabetes. Stevia composition includes gly-cosides from steviol, the steviosides, natural sweeteners that reduce blood glucose, non-caloric, with a sweetening power much higher than sucrose. Studies also showed a high content of proteins, K, P, Mg, Ca and trace of copper, iron, manganese and zinc. Japan was one of the first countries to commercialize stevia based products and to establish it as a crop, and since then interest has expanded overall. European Union only authorized stevia as a food additive since 2011. Natural and healthy alternatives to sugar are being more preferred by consumers, explaining the great increased of stevia based products, and the perspectives are for stevia consumption to increase even more in the coming years. Also there is a growing scientific interest on stevia. However, agronomic knowledge is still scarce. This investigation aimed to assess the effect of increasing rates of N, P, K or B application on stevia biomass production and nutrient concentration in plant tis-sues. The effect of fertilizer treatments on stevia was also assessed through the use of the portable chlorophyll meter SPAD-502 plus which estimate leaf chlorophyll content. A pot experiment was installed as a randomized design with four replications. Five rates of each nutrient were applied, namely N (0, 0.75, 1.5, 2.25, 2 g/pot), K (0, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 1.25 g/pot), P (0, 1.25, 2.5, 3.75, 5 g/pot), or B (0, 0.025, 0.05, 0.075, 0.1 g/pot). The data is important to adjust fertilizer rates to crop demands, enabling to maximize production and improve the nutritional value of stevia products. Results showed a significant increase of dry biomass in response to N fertilization, attaining the higher values with a rate of 1.5 g N/ pot. There were not found significant differences in dry matter yield with P, K or B fertilizer rates. SPAD readings showed a slight variation with N fertilization and maximum values were recorded in the 1.5 g N/pot treatment.
Keywords: Stevia rebaudiana, Fertilization, Biomass production, Tissue elemental composition.
