ISHS Acta Horticulturae 675: III WOCMAP Congress on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants - Volume 1: Bioprospecting and Ethnopharmacology
THE PLANT RESOURCES OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA (PROSEA) |
| Authors: | S. Duriyaprapan, S. Tanpanich, C. Khuankhamnuan |
| Keywords: | essential oil, medicinal and poisonous plants, spices, stimulants |
| DOI: | 10.17660/ActaHortic.2005.675.1 |
| Abstract:
The South-East Asian region is undoubtedly one of the world’s major sources of useful plant resources. People living in the region have relied on indigenous vegetation for their livelihood for thousand of years. Whereby knowledge and information on useful plants have been accumulated and disseminated through the whole generations, the PROSEA programme has been undertaken with cooperation of various institutions in member countries. The purposes of the programme are to compile and disseminate the wealth of dispersed knowledge and information of some 6,200 useful plants in the region. One of the major outputs of the programme is a PROSEA data base on useful plant resources. Dissemination of information on useful plant resources is carried out through the publication of some 20 PROSEA volumes. All taxa are treated in similar manner with details on synonyms, vernacular names, distribution, uses, production, international trade, properties, botany, ecology, agronomy, breeding, prospects and literature. The PROSEA volumes which are directly related to the purpose of the congress are PROSEA 12: Medicinal and Poisonous Plants, PROSEA 13: Spices, PROSEA 16: Stimulants and PROSEA 19: Essential Oil Plants. Information of more than 500 medicinal and poisonous plants, 126 spices, 69 essential oil plants and 54 stimulant plants are available in these books. | |
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