Listing of Useful Plants of the World
[formerly Listing of Potential New Crops for Australia]


NOTICE: Information on the background to this Listing is available. The analysis of numbers of papers/mentions over time was completed in 1997, using the Agricola database (1970-1996). Hard copies of the Listing (553 pages; over 4200 new crops listed with the analyses of numbers of papers over time included) are available from the publisher, Dr Rob Fletcher; see Advice on Publications Available.

The references listed below are from the Biological Abstracts database (1988-2000) and are courtesy of SilverPlatter Information. For more information re Silverplatter, go to www.silverplatter.com.


Banisteriopsis caapi

 

Analysis of numbers of papers/mentions over time (Agricola database 1970-1996):

 

Source: AGRICOLA database (1970-1996)

Common Name(s): caapi syn Ayahuasa syn yaje
Crop Use(s): drug=beverage
Reference Source(s): Kochhar, Rehm
Number of Papers/Mentions: 12

References (Biological Abstracts 1988-2000):

[These references are from the Biological Abstracts database and are courtesy of SilverPlatter Information. For more information re SilverPlatter, go to www.silverplatter.com. References are listed alphabetically by author within years, with most recent references first; addresses of author(s) have been included when available. To search within this page, we suggest using Find in Page, within the Edit menu of the Web Browser.]

Callaway, J. C., D. J. McKenna, et al. (1999). Pharmacokinetics of Hoasca alkaloids in healthy humans. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. June 65(3): 243-256. {a} Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, FIN-70211, Finland

Freedland, C. S. and R. S. Mansbach (1999). Behavioral profile of constituents in ayahuasca, an Amazonian psychoactive plant mixture. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. May 54(3): 183-194. {a} Department of Neuroscience, Pfizer Central Research, Eastern Point Road, Groton, CT, 06340, USA

Pomilio, A. B., A. A. Vitale, et al. (1999). Ayahoasca: An experimental psychosis that mirrors the transmethylation hypothesis of schizophrenia. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. April 65(1): 29-51. {a} Departamento de Quimica Organica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Programa de Plantas Toxicas y Medicinales. Metabolismo de Sustancias Sinteticas y Naturales (PROPLAME-CONICET), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellon 2, 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Desmarchelier, C. A. G., G. Ciccia, et al. (1996). Ritual and medicinal plants of the Ese'ejas of the Amazonian rainforest (Madre de Dios, Peru). Journal of Ethnopharmacology 52(1): 45-51. {a} Catedra de Biotechnol. Microbiol. Industrial, Univ. de Buenos Aires, Junin 956, 1113 Buenos Aires, Argentina

Kawanishi, K., N. Eguchi, et al. (1994). Relationship between occurrence of tremor/convulsion and level of beta-carbolines in the brain after administration of beta-carbolines into mice. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior 47(3): 689-699. {a} Kiobe Women's Coll. Pharmacy, 4-19-1 Motoyamakitamachi, Higashinadaku, Kobe, 658, Japan

Hssaida, T. and K. M. T. Morzadec (1993). Dinoflagellate cysts and palynofacies: Evidence of bathymetric variations in the basin of Guercif (Morocco) during the Jurassic (Late Bathonian-Early Oxfordian). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 77(1-2): 97-106. {a} Lab. Micropaleontologie Paleontologie Marines, Inst. Geologie, Univ. Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France

Bennett, B. C. (1992). Hallucinogenic plants of the Shuar and related indigenous groups in Amazonian Ecuador and Peru. Brittonia 44(4): 483-493. Dep. Biological Sciences, Univ. Park Campus, Fla. International Univ., Miami, Fla. 33199, USA

Carreira, L. M. M., E. S. P. Lobato, et al. (1991). Pollen morphology in plants cultivated at the Goeldi Museum Park: V. Malpighiaceae family. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi Serie Botanica 7(2): 441-453. {a} Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Dep. de Botanica, C.P. 399, CEP 66.040 Belem, PA


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Index of common names:
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