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Economic botany
Economic botany is the commercial exploitation of plants by people. Economic botany contributes significantly to anthropology, biology, conservation, botany, and other fields of science. This link between botany and anthropology explores the ways humans use plants for food, shelter, medicines, textiles, and much more.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Focus: Economic Botany )〕
== History of economic botany ==
Botany itself came about through medicine and the development of herbal remedies.〔(A. 1928. Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: a Chapter in the History of Botany, 1470–1670. 2nd ed. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, England. )〕 Thus at its advent, botany was economic as well as systematic. As plants became useful for herbals and curatives, their economic value increased. An early set of instructions drawn up by a cosmographer of Charles the fifth instructed explorers to
"determine what are the items of sustenance of the land and which onse are generally used, whether fruits or seeds, and all manner of spices, drugs, or whatever other scents, and find out the time in which one can reproduce the trees, plants, herbs, and fruits that these parts offer, and if the natives use them for medicines, as we do."〔(A. R. 1964. Flowers for the King: the Expidetion of Ruiz and Pavon and the Flora of Peru. Duke Univ. Press, Durham, NC. )〕
Teosinte and rice are two examples of plants modified so that their economic values would increase.
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