WELCOME to Ethnobotanical Leaflets. In this issue you'll find a number of 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. Also, please check the link, Ethnobotanical Leaflets Starch Research Page for further news. As always, contributions from our readers are welcome.
Blue Agave and Its Importance in the Tequila Industry, by Gary M. Mohr, Jr.
Daucus carota: Origins and New Directions, by Jeff Myers
Dancing in Dandeloins, by Kelly E. Hertlein
The Strawberry, by Molly Maguire
Nutsedge: Weedy Pest or Crop of the Future?, by Deatra J. Sams
Garlic, by Tina Sydlowski
The Tea Plant, by Carolyn N. Porter
Green Tea: Nature's Rediscovered Ancient Medicine, by Amy Huddleston
Hevea brasiliensis: The Rubber Tree, by Laura Law
Sugarcane, by Timothy Braun
The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
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
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
Editorship of Economic Botany changes hands
Ethnobotanical Leaflets honored by Danish computer magazine
Herbals of the Vatican Library
The Art of Emil Huston on Internet
Kohler's Medizinal Pflanzen
Society for Economic Botany: Home Page & News of Annual Meeting
New Crops & New Uses
4th European Colloquium on Ethnopharmacology, Metz, France
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
"Teaming with Life" An Interview with Meredith Lane by M. Kritzer Van Zant
Economic Botany and Restoration Ecology by D.F. Austin & M. Kritzer Van Zant
Editorial Policy
Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL)
NYBG Society for Economic Botany
Home Page
The Gatherer: Plant Use Multiple Database Search Engine
Editor's Page, Society for Economic Botany
People and Plants Online
Seed Savers Exchange
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
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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