43rd Annual Meeting: Presentation Abstracts

	2002 Presentation Abstracts Bronx, New York 43rd Annual Meeting: June 22-27, 2002 Symposium: Origins, Evolution, and Conservation of Crop Plants: A molecular approach. Distinguished Economic Botanist: Sir Ghillean T. Prance [ 2002 Meeting \| Scientific Program (PDF) ] < Previous \| Next >
	*Abstracts are arranged in alphabetical order of the last name of the presenting author.


Morphological, ethnobotanical, and archaeological evidence of Cucurbita ecuadorensis as an ancient semi-domesticate. (Oral Presentation). Thomas C. Andres, Dolores R. Piperno, Jaime Estrella E, and Karen E. Stothert. PDF Cladistic biogeography of Juglans (Juglandaceae) based on cpDNA intergenic spacer sequences. (Oral Presentation). Mallikarjuna Aradhya, Daniel Potter, and Charles Simon. PDF Doctrine of Signatures: An explanation of medicinal plant discovery or dissemination? (Oral Presentation). Bradley C. Bennett. PDF Economic value of Bignoniaceae lianas from the forests of the Coto Brus region, Costa Rica. (Oral Presentation). Alice Benzecry and Ruth Dweck. PDF In-situ crop conservation in avocado: How the culture of farming affects the genetics of crops. (Oral Presentation). Ken Birnbaum, Rob DeSalle, Charles M. Peters, and Philip N. Benfey. PDF Introgression and invasion of Avena barbata in California and Oregon. (Oral Presentation). Mark A. Blumler. PDF The city in the country: Exploring the role of local resources in Old Albany, New York. (Oral Presentation). Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund. PDF Assessing trends in Micronesian traditional knowledge. (Oral Presentation). Berry J. Brosi, Michael J. Balick, Roberta Lee, Robert Wolkow, Mark Kostka, Bill Raynor, Robert Gallen, Ally Raynor, Pelihter Raynor, and Dana Lee Ling. PDF Ethnobotanically identified poisonous plants of the K’ekchi’ Maya and the isolation and characterization of several novel Lobeline alkaloid analogs from Hippobroma longiflora (Campanulaceae). (Oral Presentation). Isaac S. Bruck. PDF Maize domestication and selection in the starch pathways. (Oral Presentation). Edward Buckler, Sherry Whitt, and Larissa Wilson. PDF Directed and undirected management of plant populations by the Yucatec Maya: Historical implications and practical applications. (Oral Presentation). Javier Caballero, Andrea Martinez, Maria Teresa Pulido and Maria Eugenia Correa. PDF Plant beings and their role in the medical system of the Rarámuri of the Sierra Tarahumara, Chihuahua, Mexico. (Oral Presentation). Michael B. Casaus. PDF Biodirected isolation and characterization of antimalarial components from Persea species. (Oral Presentation). Steven J. Casper and Walter H. Lewis. PDF Medicinal plant conservation and cultivation: A pilot study with lemon verbena, (Aloysia triphylla). (Oral Presentation). Rebekah Chapman, James Affolter, David Giannasi, Stanley Kays, and Marta Lagrotteria. PDF Projecting the effect of harvest on the population biology of goldenseal, Hydrastis canadensis H., a medicinal herb in Ohio, USA forests. (Oral Presentation). Deanna Christensen and David L. Gorchov. PDF Holy mole, it's biodiversity on a single plate! The ethnobotany of pepian and the moles. (Oral Presentation). Eugene Richard Chung. PDF Economic botany in a distance learning format II: Experience from an intercampus course. (Oral Presentation). Wilson Crone. PDF Origin and genetic diversity of chayote (Sechium edule). (Oral Presentation). Hugh Cross, Rafael Lira, and Timothy Motley. PDF Patterns of genetic diversity in Stenocereus stellatus (Cactaceae), a semi-domesticated species in central Mexico. (Oral Presentation). Jennifer Cruse-Sanders, Jim Hamrick and Alejandro Casas. PDF Comparing fluorescent AFLP data with the folk taxonomy of the clonally-propagated tuber crop oca (Oxalis tuberosa). (Oral Presentation). Eve Emshwiller. PDF Linking communities and experimental ecology: the harvest of Chameadorea radicalis in the El Cielo Biosphere Reserve, Mexico. (Oral Presentation). Byran A. Endress and David L. Gorchov. PDF Intergenomic recombination: The foundation for maize biodiversity. (Oral Presentation). Mary Eubanks. PDF Ethnobotany and secretory reservoir anatomy in leaves and bracts of Clibadium surinamense L. (Asteraceae), an Amazonian ichthyotoxic species. (Oral Presentation). Dan K. Evans and Daniel Chaffin. PDF Use of piqigua, Heteropsis ecuadorensis (Araceae) in northwestern Ecuador. (Oral Presentation). Maria Fadiman. PDF Cultivation manners of Capsicum spp in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, México. (Oral Presentation). Basurto Francisco, Virginia Evangelista, and Delia Castro. PDF The consumption of aloeswood and the incense culture of Japan. (Oral Presentation). Krisa Fredrickson. PDF Phylogeographic studies in Phaseolus. (Oral Presentation). Paul Gepts, Roberto Papa, Alonso Gonzalez, Sylvaine Coulibaly, and Alfonso Delgado-Salinas. PDF The wound healing activity of ohoru (Symphonia globulifera L.f.) collected from the Orinoco River Delta, Venezuela. (Oral Presentation). Alfredo Gomez-Beloz. PDF Evolution of two opuntioid crop plants, Opuntia ficus-indica and Nopalea cochenillifera. (Oral Presentation). M. Patrick Griffith. PDF Molecular evidence for sugarcane evolution and domestication. (Oral Presentation). Laurent Grivet, Jean-Christophe Glaszmann, and Angelique D'Hont. PDF Today's traditional plant uses of the Anishinaabek Great Lakes Indians. (Oral Presentation). Scott M. Herron. PDF Demography, canopy cover, and aerial root production of Clusia grandiflora and Clusia palmicida five years after NTFP harvest in Guyana, South America. (Oral Presentation). Bruce Hoffman. PDF The demand for diversity: Changing urban consumption patterns and their effects on production landscapes. (Oral Presentation). Valerie Imbruce and Christine Padoch. PDF Development of a global strategy linking nutrition and health with plant genetic resource conservation. (Oral Presentation). Timothy Johns and Pablo B. Eyzaguirre. PDF Ayurveda and diabetes mellitus. (Oral Presentation). Sarah Khan. PDF Food crop introductions in highlands West New Guinea 1938-1998: An ethnobotanical tale. (Oral Presentation). Larry M. Lake. PDF Traditional and contemporary use of Sakau (Piper methysticum) in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. (Oral Presentation). Roberta Lee, Robert Wolkow, Berry J. Brosi, Michael J. Balick, Mark Kostka, Bill Raynor, Robert Gallen, Ally Raynor, Pelihter Raynor, and Dana Lee Ling. PDF Plants and Cultures of the Opa Locka/Hialeah Flea Market, Miami, FL. (Oral Presentation). Eva Doll Lehmbeck, Fabienne Taylor, and Adam Edwards. PDF Genetic relationships between Dioscorea alata L. and related Melanesian endemic species D. nummularia Lam. as revealed by AFLP markers. (Oral Presentation). Roger Malapa, Gemma Arnau, Jean Louis Noyer, and Vincent Lebot. PDF Strong inference in ethnobotany. (Oral Presentation). Will McClatchey and K. W. Bridges. PDF Marquesan medicinal plants: A comparative study. (Oral Presentation). Luke Mease, Alexandra Paul, Christian Palmer and Kahale Pali. PDF Archaeological evidence for the worldwide tradition of psychoactive drug plant use. (Oral Presentation). M. D. Merlin. PDF Crop evolution: Past, present, and future. (Oral Presentation). Timothy Motley. PDF Traditions and evolution in cultural botanical knowledge among the Vietnamese of East and West. (Oral Presentation). My Lien T. Nguyen. PDF Ethnobotany of a Tongan voyaging canoe: The Kalia Mileniume. (Oral Presentation). Mark Thomas Nickum. PDF Evolutionary changes in reproductive biology of Polaskia chichipe (Cactaceae) associated with domestication in the Tehuacán Valley, central Mexico. (Oral Presentation). Adriana Otero, Alejandro Casas, Carmen Bartolo, Edgar Pérez-Negrón, and Alfonso Valiente-Banuet. PDF Commercial collection of Himalayan medicinal plants, II: The effects of different collection methods on wild populations of Nardostachys grandiflora. (Oral Presentation). Helle Overgaard Larsen. PDF Plants used to treat topical conditions in Ko`olauloa, Hawaii. (Oral Presentation). Christian Palmer. PDF Population ecology and the management of tropical resources: A plea for parsimony and participation. (Oral Presentation). Charles M. Peters. PDF Using phytoliths and starch grains to study Neotropical plant domestication. (Oral Presentation). Dolores R. Piperno. PDF Biocultural conservation in the Amazon: The ACT experience (Oral Presentation). Mark Plotkin. PDF The harvest and management potential of titica vine roots (Heteropsis spp.) in intact, burned and logged forests in the eastern Brazilian Amazon. (Oral Presentation). Campbell Plowden, Christopher Uhl, and Francisco de Assis Oliveira. PDF Botanical and ethnobotanical inventory of the National Park of American Samoa. (Oral Presentation). Diane Ragone. PDF Genetics and the domestication of sunflower. (Oral Presentation). Loren Rieseberg, John Burke, Abby Harter, and David Lentz. PDF Evolution of recombination under domestication: A comparative analysis. (Oral Presentation). Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra. PDF Population ecologies of Tibetan medicinals: Implications of monocarpy for sustainable management. (Oral Presentation). Jan Salick and Heidi H. Schmidt. PDF Molecular studies on the evolution and conservation of the tropical crop cassava. (Oral Presentation). Barbara Schaal, Kenneth Olsen, and Luiz Carvalho. PDF Logging and livelihoods: Thresholds and prospects for compatibility in eastern Amazonia. (Oral Presentation). Patricia Shanley, Margaret Cymery, Leda Luz, and Gabriel Medina. PDF Demographic models for monitoring and managing populations of nontimber forest products. (Oral Presentation). Aditi Sinha and Kamaljit Bawa. PDF Germplasm resources for development of Cannabis sativa (marijuana, hemp) for food, fiber, and medicinal purposes. (Oral Presentation). Ernest Small. PDF Commercial collection of Himalayan medicinal plants, I: The trade in Nardostachys grandiflora and Neopicrorhiza scrophulariiflora. (Oral Presentation). Carsten Smith Olsen. PDF Investigating conceptual knowledge in ethnobiology: Methodology and opportunities for collaboration in plant breeding and genetic resource conservation. (Oral Presentation). Daniela Soleri and D. A. Cleveland. PDF Habitat, uses, and morphological variation in Erynigium yuccifolium Michaux. (Oral Presentation). Marie S. Standifer, Leon C. Standifer, and Shirley C. Tucker. PDF Variation in Tzeltal Maya medicinal plant knowledge. (Oral Presentation). John R. Stepp. PDF Using Population Viability Analysis (PVA) to assess harvest impacts. (Oral Presentation). Kristine Stewart. PDF A comparative ethnomedical study of gardens in two urban communities of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (Oral Presentation). Rebekka Stone and Juan Almendares. PDF Assessing the harvest of non-timber resources from a population ecology perspective: a review of case-studies and suggestions for future directions. (Oral Presentation). Tamara Ticktin. PDF Novel dye plants and weaving techniques of the Huaorani, Ecuadorian Amazon (Oral Presentation). Camille Tipton-Allaband. PDF Traditional harvesting and processing of Red Laver seaweed (Porphyra spp.) on the north coast of British Columbia (Oral Presentation). Nancy J. Turner and Helen Clifton. PDF Ethnobotany of the Rosaceae in southern Illinois. (Oral Presentation). Miriam Kritzer Van Zant. PDF Harvesting utility: Population ecology methods for local application. (Oral Presentation). Julie Velasquez Runk and Mark Wishnie. PDF Uses and management of the genus Casimiroa (Rutaceae). (Oral Presentation). Patricia Vera-Caletti and Heike Vibrans. PDF The value of organic farming for the in-situ conservation of agrobiodiversity and related traditional ecological knowledge. (Oral Presentation). Christian Reinhard Vogl. PDF Small-grain grasses and cereals as staple food at Epipalaeolithic Ohalo II, Israel. (Oral Presentation). Ehud Weiss and Mordechai Kislev. PDF GIS-assisted exploration for plant genetic resources in Paraguay (Oral Presentation). David E. Williams, Andrew Jarvis, Karen A. Williams, and Luigi Guarino. PDF Knowledge and use of fungi by the Hotï: A mycophile society from the Venezuelan Amazon. (Oral Presentation). Egleé L. Zent and Stanford Zent. PDF Breadfruit origins and dispersal through the Pacific. (Oral Presentation). Nyree Zerega, Diane Ragone, and Timothy Motley. PDF