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Herbs In American Fields: A Horticultural Perspective Of Herb And Medicinal Plant Production In The United States, Lyle E. Craker, Zoë Gardner, Selma C. Etter
Herbs In American Fields: A Horticultural Perspective Of Herb And Medicinal Plant Production In The United States, Lyle E. Craker, Zoë Gardner, Selma C. Etter
Lyle E. Craker
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Dietary Supplements: The New Herbalism, Lyle E. Craker, Zoë Gardner
Dietary Supplements: The New Herbalism, Lyle E. Craker, Zoë Gardner
Lyle E. Craker
The passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act in 1994 made the use of supplements more acceptable in the U.S., increasing demand for botanicals to use in health care and maintenance. These botanicals, primarily medicinal and aromatic plants, currently represent about 25% of the dietary supplement market in the U.S. Although much of the market for botanicals traditionally has been met through collection of plants in the wild, enhanced cultivation of several species will be essential to bring standardized, quality plant materials into the marketplace.
Host Species Affects Herbivory, Pollination, And Reproduction In Experiments With Parasitic Castilleja, Lynn Adler
Host Species Affects Herbivory, Pollination, And Reproduction In Experiments With Parasitic Castilleja, Lynn Adler
Lynn Adler
The relative performance of a parasitic plant on different host species will depend on both direct and indirect effects of hosts on parasite interactions with mutualists and antagonists. Host species could affect parasite interactions with both herbivores and pollinators due to the uptake of defensive compounds and nutrients. However, the effects of different host species on parasitic plants have not been experimentally tested in the field. I determined the effect of two native host species, an alkaloid-producing, nitrogen-fixing lupine and non-alkaloid, non-nitrogen-fixing grass, on herbivory, pollination, and reproduction of the hemiparasitic plant Indian paintbrush (Castilleja indivisa). Within this experiment, I …