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Wiersema, John H. & León, Blanca 2013. World Economic Plants: A Standard Reference, Second Edition. CRC Press. 1336 p.
The book covers more than 12 000 vascular plants and plant products that are traded, regulated, or otherwise important to international commerce.
It contains more than 50 000 common names in all principal world languages. For languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Russian, names in original scripts are displayed (which is not the case in GRIN, but available in ISTA).
Data was extracted mostly from GRIN.
The book can be purchased through CRC at £95.00.
15 April 2013
The plant of the month: Sages
The Salvia genus includes 800-900 species, temperate as well as tropical. Many species are used as medicinals, some are eaten for their aromatic leaves or their mucilaginous seeds (chia), and quite all of them are put into collections by amateurs and botanical gardens. Several have developed as common garden plants.
With sages, we inaugurate a new way to begin with putting data online. A succinct information is placed before the summary, which makes it easily visible with a simple simple smartphone.
Pages have been created only in French for the moment, due to lack of time. You can help us translating!
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Pl@ntuse is a collaborative space for exchange of information on useful plants and uses of plants. It is not intended to duplicate existing encyclopedias (including Wikipedia), but to offer additional features such as:
- On-line resources that you can reuse
- Portal towards relevant resources available on Internet
- Thematic introductions to literature or any subject of interest
- Species lists (legumes grown in France, world cereals...)
- Popular names or vernacular names
- Portrait galeries of cultivars (varieties)
- Old books and articles on useful plants
- Original publications
- Iconography
- Questions and answers
The working method
It is of course scalable and open for discussion. But the basic idea is not to produce consensus summaries. It is rather to provide reliable material to allow everyone to make his/her own synthesis. A priority is to upload the data sets that underlie the work, but are rarely published, forcing everyone to start from scratch.
Any kind of page may be created. Templates have been devised to create pages with a similar structure and with similar content. Such pages are easily accessible through categories or portals. If you intend to upload new types of information, please ask the administrators, who will help you create and use a new template.
As is customary in the scientific community, we mention the author of each contribution. However, most of the contributions may be corrected or updated, as far as they reach consensus. See Help:Authors of contributions
Each page is potentially available in English and French. By default, we are beginning with French, except for books written in English. You can collaborate by translating.