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Monday, July 27th

Monday, July 27th, 8:00 am to 12:00 pm · Salon 2/The Shaw Conference Centre
Session 4: Contributed Papers: Economic Botany: Contributed Papers
Presiding: Allison Miller, Saint Louis University
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4001July 27th 8:00 amSalon 2/The Shaw Conference CentreEconomic Development as a Tool for Production and Conservation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Pakistan
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Oral PaperSher, Hassan; Barkworth, Mary E..Economic development
Pakistan
Medicinal plants
Aromatic plants
MAPs
Agriculture
4002July 27th 8:15 amSalon 2/The Shaw Conference CentreEthnobotanical studies: Medicinal Plants of Balochistan, Pakistan used for the treatment of disorders of the Gastrointestinal Tract
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Oral PaperAsrar, Mudassir; Huda, Sohaib.Medicinal plants
Balochistan 
Pakistan
Digestive tract 
4003July 27th 8:30 amSalon 2/The Shaw Conference CentreFloristic and ethnobotanical resource use among hunting/gathering tribes in the southern plains of North America
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Oral PaperElisens, Wayne.ethnobotany
Great Plains
Kiowa
Comanche
Apache
4004July 27th 8:45 amSalon 2/The Shaw Conference CentreEthnobotanical and Floret studies on Twelve Species of the family Asteraceae in Ile-Ife, Osun state, Nigeria
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Oral PaperAkinnubi, Funmilola Mabel; Oladipo, Olaniran Temitope; Akinloye, Akinwumi Johnson.anthesis
Capitulum
forceps
delimiting
taxonomically
4005July 27th 9:00 amSalon 2/The Shaw Conference CentreThe Experience of Orpul and its Effect on Tanzanian Students' Ability to Acquire Medicinal Plant Knowledge
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Oral PaperSimper, Heidi.ethnobotany
Indigenous Knowledge
Knowledge Transmission
Medicinal Plant Knowledge
Maasai
Orpul
Biocultural Diversity
Tanzania
Environmental Knowledge
Medicinal Plant Knowledge Transmission
Active learning
Classroom Learning
Passive Learning
Traditional Environmental Knowledge
Traditional Medicine
Plant Collection
Western Education
Secondary School Students
Biocultural Diversity Conservation
Traditional Rituals
Traditional Ceremony
4006July 27th 9:15 amSalon 2/The Shaw Conference CentreAssessing the cropping and weediness potential in southern Ontario of two potentially new oilseed species: Euphorbia lagascae and Centrapalus pauciflorus
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Oral PaperChakraborty, Sonhita; Van Acker, Rene; Todd, Jim; Loucks, Cora.weed biology
oilseed
Centrapalus pauciflorus
Euphorbia lagascae
4007July 27th 9:30 amSalon 2/The Shaw Conference CentreAssessing the mineral nutrition of Claytonia lanceolata corms from multiple populations across the Columbia Plateau region of North America
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Oral PaperReilly, Paul; O'Quinn, Robin.Claytonia lanceolata
mineral nutrition
July 27th 9:45 amSalon 2/The Shaw Conference CentreBreak
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4009July 27th 10:15 amSalon 2/The Shaw Conference CentreUsing new collections of a wild relative of crops to expand crop adaptationshort title: lessons from chickpea for the construction of germplasm collections
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Oral PaperVon Wettberg, Eric; Chang, Peter; Greenspan, Alex; Dacosta-Calheiros, Manny; Moenga, Susan; Mamo, Bullo; Alford, Betsy; Cacmak, Ahmet; Vance, Lisa; Moriuchi, Ken; Warschefsky, Emily; Rose, Janna; Migneault, Andrew; Friesen, Maren; Siler, Elinor; Carrasquila-Garcia, Noelia; Yilmaz, Mustafa; Temel, Hamdi; Nuzhdin, Sergey; Bukun, Bekir; Aydogan, Abdulkadir; Kahraman, Abdullah; Penmetsa, Varma; Berger, Jens; Cook, Doug.Domestication
crop wild relatives
Chickpea
climate change
Southeastern Anatolia
4010July 27th 10:30 amSalon 2/The Shaw Conference CentreWho spread African rice? Curiosities roused by combining landscape genomics with farmer practices in the Bight of Benin versus Senegal
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Oral PaperMeyer, Rachel; Sanches, Michelle; Purugganan, Michael.Oryza
poaceae
Domestication
West Africa
Salinity
Crop Diversity
whole genome sequencing
agronomy
4011July 27th 10:45 amSalon 2/The Shaw Conference CentreBreadfruit (Artocarpus altilis): Development of a traditional underutilized crop for food security and modern food markets
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Oral PaperMurch, Susan; Ragone, Diane.breadfruit
food security
sustainable agroforestry
4012July 27th 11:00 amSalon 2/The Shaw Conference CentreBreadfruit (Artocarpus altilis, Parkinson (Fos)) for Food Security and Novel Food Products
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Oral PaperLiu, Ying; Murch, Susan.breadfruit
Artocarpus altilis
food security
Biomass yield and quality
Protein content
4013July 27th 11:15 amSalon 2/The Shaw Conference CentreDigital morphometrics of two North American grapevines: assessing leaf variation within and among individuals, and among species (Vitaceae)
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Oral PaperKlein, Laura; O'Hanlon, Regan; Caito, Madeleine; Chitwood, Dan; Miller, Allison.Vitis
Morphometrics
common garden
Procrustes
elliptic Fourier analysis
linear discriminant analysis
4014July 27th 11:30 amSalon 2/The Shaw Conference CentreWild relatives of the brinjal eggplant (Solanum melongena L.: Solanaceae): evaluating gaps in global germplasm collections and identifying priority collecting areas
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Oral PaperSyfert, Mindy; Castañeda-Álvarez, Nora P.; Khoury, Colin; Särkinen, Tiina; Sosa, Chrystian C.; Achicanoy, Harold C.; Bernau, Vivian; Prohens, Jaime; Daunay, Marie-Christine; Knapp, Sandra.crop wild relative
eggplant
Solanum
solanaceae
Africa
collecting
4015July 27th 11:45 amSalon 2/The Shaw Conference CentreApplication of DNA Barcoding in Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology: Identifying medicinal plants traded in local markets
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Oral PaperGhorbani, Abdolbaset; Saeedi, Yousef; de Boer, Hugo J..Molecular identification
Medical ethnobotany
Market Survey
Monday, July 27th, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm · SCC Board Room/The Shaw Conference Centre
Session M28: Meeting: Economic Botany Business Meeting
Presiding: Wendy Applequist,
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July 27th 4:00 pmSCC Board Room/The Shaw Conference CentreEconomic Botany Business Meeting
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Monday, July 27th, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm · Hall D/The Shaw Conference Centre
Session P: Contributed Posters: Economic Botany: Contributed Posters
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PEN001July 27th 5:30 pmHall D/The Shaw Conference CentreTemperature Tolerance at the Germination stage of Four Rice Cultivars
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Poster: Economic Botany SectionTyler, Hansk; Charles, Thomas; Fatimata, Pale.Unhulled Rice cultivar seeds
germination variability
PEN002July 27th 5:30 pmHall D/The Shaw Conference CentreTraps as treats: a traditional sticky rice snack persisting in rapidly changing Asian kitchens
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Poster: Economic Botany SectionSchwallier, Rachel; de Boer, Hugo J.; Visser, Natasja; van Vugt, Rogier R.; Gravendeel, Barbara.Carnivorous plants
ethnobotany
Glutinous rice
Nepenthes
Malaysian tribes
Traditional food
PEN003July 27th 5:30 pmHall D/The Shaw Conference CentreComparative yield and forage quality of Astragalus species in semi-arid condition in western Canada
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Poster: Economic Botany SectionKhanal, Nityananda; Schellenberg, Michael; Coulman, Bruce.Astragalus
species
biomass
digestibility
variability
population
PEN004July 27th 5:30 pmHall D/The Shaw Conference CentreThe inhibitory effects of extracts of medicinal plants used in treating infectious diseases in Delta State Southern Nigeria
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Poster: Economic Botany SectionAdongbede, Erute; Egboduku, Wisdom.Antibacterial
Medicinal plants
Zone of inhibition
Antibiotics
Infectious diseases
PEN005July 27th 5:30 pmHall D/The Shaw Conference CentreAeroallergen of Texas Panhandle, AHPCO and Plasma Nanotechnology to improve the indoor air and sanitize ice machines
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Poster: Economic Botany SectionGhosh, Nabarun; Veloz, Mitsy; Bouyi, Danius; Bennert, Jeff; Saadeh, Constantine; Bell, Clint.Aeroallergen
AHPCO
Plasma-nanotechnology
PEN006July 27th 5:30 pmHall D/The Shaw Conference CentreRevisiting traditional remedies: antioxidant effects of Azadirachta indica A. Juss. and Salvia triloba C. Linnaeus
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Poster: Economic Botany SectionSchaper, Bridget; Faye-Malik, Jaime; Koroch, Adolfina; Gosslau, Alexander; Raman, Saima.antioxidant activity

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