Ethnobotany of food plants in the high river Ter valley (Pyrenees, Catalonia, Iberian Peninsula): Non-crop food vascular plants and crop food plants with medicinal properties

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 303-326

  Rigat, Montse ^a   Bonet, Maria Ángels ^a   Garcia, Sònia ^b   Garnatje, Teresa ^b   Vallés, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT BOTÀNIC DE BARCELONA IBB CSIC ICUB   (Spain)

Author keywords

Edible plants; Functional foods; Marginal; Neglected or underutilised crops; Non crop food plants; Wild crop relatives

Indexed keywords

CROP PLANT; ETHNOBOTANY; MEDICINAL PLANT; VASCULAR PLANT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CROP; ETHNOBOTANY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL FOOD; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; PLANT;

AGED; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ETHNOBOTANY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL FOOD; HUMANS; MALE; PLANTS, EDIBLE; PLANTS, MEDICINAL;

ACHILLEA; ACHILLEA PTARMICA; CONVOLVULUS; CONVOLVULUS ARVENSIS; LEONTODON HISPIDUS; MOLOPOSPERMUM PELOPONNESIACUM; TARAXACUM; TARAXACUM OFFICINALE; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 70449572262     PISSN: 03670244     EISSN: 15435237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03670240903022320     Document Type: Article

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