WELCOME to the fourth issue of Ethnobotanical Leaflets. In this edition you'll find a number of new subject areas worth exploring, including recent contributions to our Web Journal. Under this heading will be found various short articles and research notes of general interest to our readers. New to this issue is the premier appearance of our Ethnobotanical Leaflets Starch Research Page. Also, a new page of color photos by Carlos Ochoa has been added to the Galleria Section. In addition, please note the new links in Online Economic Botany Resources. As always, contributions from our readers will be welcomed.

Web Journal

Modern Uses of Cultivated Algae, by Steve L. Morton

Canola, by Michael T. Kershaw

Ginseng, by Penny Keller

Grape Growing, by John Veremis

Sugar Cane: Past and Present, by Peter Sharpe

In our Winter 1998 issue you'll find articles on the ethnobotany of Atropa belladona, avocado, bamboo, hemp, Chenopodium, coca, coconut, cola, jimson weed, peanut, peppers, pineapple and quinine.

See the Summer 1998 issue for articles on Banisteriopsis caapi, Cannabis, chocolate, coca, native dye plants, ergot, mayapple, opium, papaya, peyote, Salvia divinorum and tobacco. Also included in this issue are color photos by Carlos Ochoa of Peruivan maize cobs, chile peppers, zapote (Manilkara zapota), common bean, capuli (Physalis peruviana) and mashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum).

Back Issues of Ethnobotanical leaflets

Book Review Corner

The Shaman's Apprentice by Lynne Cherry and Mark J. Plotkin

Medicinal Plants of the Heartland by Connie Kaye and Neil Billington

Potions, Poisons, and Panaceas by David Brussell

Origin and Early Diversification of Land Plants by P. Kenrick & P.R. Crane

Research Notes

Ethnobotanical Leaflets Starch Research Page 

Agriboard, Use of Non-timber Cellulose for Construction

The Inclusive Herbarium by Edgar Anderson

How to Define a Species?

Rain Forest Medicines, an interview with Mark Plotkin

Archaeological Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes in Peru, by D. Ugent & L.W. Peterson

Galleria Botanica

Herbals of the Vatican Library

The Art of Emil Huston on Internet

Kohler's Medizinal Pflanzen

New photos by Carlos Ochoa  

Meetings

Society for Economic Botany 1999 Annual Meeting

XVI International Botanical Congress

Society of Ethnobiology

International Society for Ethnopharmacology

New Crops & New Uses

Careers in Ethnobotany

Job Listings from the Chronicle of Higher Education

Careers in Ethnobiology and Conservation by M.J. Plotkin

An Introduction to Ethnobotany by C. Veilleux and S.R. King

Graduate Programs in Ethnobotany

Undergraduate Studies in Ethnobotany

Policy Corner

Economic Botany and Restoration Ecology by D.F. Austin & M. Kritzer Van Zant

Editorial Policy

Worldwide Economic Botany Resources 

NYBG Society for Economic Botany Home Page

Editor's Page, Society for Economic Botany

People and Plants Online

Cyberbotanica: Plants and Cancer Treatments

Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops

New Crop Resource Online Program

WWW Ethnobotany Resource Directory

Internet Directory for Botanical Illustrations

Kew's list of over 200 Web sites of interest to economic botanists

Economic Botany Web Pages, from the Internet Directory for Botany

Ethnobotany Database, U.S. National Agricultural Library

Native American Food Plants, U.S. National Agricultural Library

Medicinal Plants of Native Americans, U.S. National Agricultural Library

Phytochemicals, U.S. National Agricultural Library

Related Web Pages

Plants and Society (Plb 117)

Don Ugent's Home Page

Southern Illinois University Herbarium

Protocells: The Origin of Life

Tropical Dinoflagellates

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