What is economic botany?

Economic Botany and Crop Domestication

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Economic botany is the commercial exploitation of plants by people, contributing to fields like anthropology, biology, and conservation.
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What are economic plants?
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Economic plants are defined as being useful either directly (as in food) or indirectly (as products we use or that enhance the environment).
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Who proposed the concept of centres of origin for cultivated plants?
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Alexander von Humboldt proposed that the origin of many useful plants is not known, while Alphonse de Candolle studied cultivated species and provided information about their origins.
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What did Alphonse de Candolle contribute to the study of cultivated plants?
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De Candolle's work, 'Origin of Cultivated Plants', compiled information about the ancestral forms of plants, their domestication, and history.
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What is domestication in the context of plants?
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Domestication is the process where wild plants evolve into crop plants through artificial selection, often involving hybridization and selective breeding.
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What are Vavilovian Centres of Origin?
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Vavilovian Centres of Origin are geographic regions identified by Nikolai Vavilov where cultivated plants originated, based on genetic diversity and archaeological evidence.
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List some of the Vavilovian Centres of Origin.
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1. Chinese Centre 2. Indian Centre 3. Indo-Malayan Centre 4. Central Asiatic Region 5. Eastern Centre 6. Mediterranean Region 7. Abyssinian Centre 8. South-Mexican and Central American Centre 9. South American Centre (Peruvian, Chilean, Brazilian-Paraguayan)
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