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Traditional Uses of Leguminosae among the Karen in Thailand

Leguminosae (legumes) are one of the largest plant families. They are widely used for a variety of purposes by people around the world and include many important cultivated economic food crops. On local scales, legumes are commonly used by various ethnic groups. However, the data are incomplete and...

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Autores principales: Sutjaritjai, Natcha, Wangpakapattanawong, Prasit, Balslev, Henrik, Inta, Angkhana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6963713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31847100
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants8120600
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author Sutjaritjai, Natcha
Wangpakapattanawong, Prasit
Balslev, Henrik
Inta, Angkhana
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description Leguminosae (legumes) are one of the largest plant families. They are widely used for a variety of purposes by people around the world and include many important cultivated economic food crops. On local scales, legumes are commonly used by various ethnic groups. However, the data are incomplete and scattered, not least in Thailand. We found that species of legumes were important in Karen communities, so we decided to investigate in detail the traditional knowledge of legumes on a local scale among Karen people in northern Thailand. We interviewed six herbalists and eighty-four nonherbalist informants in three Karen villages in Chiang Mai province about their use of legumes, and about the local names for the species, using semistructured interviews. A total of 83 legumes species (in 45 genera) had 4443 use reports. Five of the 83 legume species had not been reported previously as used in Thailand. Most Karen use reports (43%) of legumes were for food, medicine (36%), and materials (8%), but in term of species more legumes (68 species) were used for medicine than for food (53 species). The legume genera with most used species were Crotalaria and Flemingia each with six species. The most important species are Tamarindus indica (CI = 3.38), Senegalia rugata (CI = 2.39), Glycine max (CI = 1.27) respectively.
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spelling pubmed-69637132020-01-27 Traditional Uses of Leguminosae among the Karen in Thailand Sutjaritjai, Natcha Wangpakapattanawong, Prasit Balslev, Henrik Inta, Angkhana Plants (Basel) Article Leguminosae (legumes) are one of the largest plant families. They are widely used for a variety of purposes by people around the world and include many important cultivated economic food crops. On local scales, legumes are commonly used by various ethnic groups. However, the data are incomplete and scattered, not least in Thailand. We found that species of legumes were important in Karen communities, so we decided to investigate in detail the traditional knowledge of legumes on a local scale among Karen people in northern Thailand. We interviewed six herbalists and eighty-four nonherbalist informants in three Karen villages in Chiang Mai province about their use of legumes, and about the local names for the species, using semistructured interviews. A total of 83 legumes species (in 45 genera) had 4443 use reports. Five of the 83 legume species had not been reported previously as used in Thailand. Most Karen use reports (43%) of legumes were for food, medicine (36%), and materials (8%), but in term of species more legumes (68 species) were used for medicine than for food (53 species). The legume genera with most used species were Crotalaria and Flemingia each with six species. The most important species are Tamarindus indica (CI = 3.38), Senegalia rugata (CI = 2.39), Glycine max (CI = 1.27) respectively. MDPI 2019-12-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6963713/ /pubmed/31847100 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants8120600 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Traditional Uses of Leguminosae among the Karen in Thailand
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title_short Traditional Uses of Leguminosae among the Karen in Thailand
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6963713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31847100
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants8120600
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