New Plants for Florida: Tropical Foliage

Protein from Tropical Plants

s of Workshop Papers Abstracts of Workshop Paperss of Workshop Papers TOBACCO LEAF PROTEIN Pilot-scale technology that extracts high-quality protein from young tobacco leaves has been developed. Soluble proteins extracted from tobacco plants might be added to foods as nutritional supplements or for functional properties (e.g., gelling, thickening). Although not fully tested, they might have a s...

A Production Function for Florida Foliage Nurseries from Time-series and Cross-section Data*

The foliage industry is the most rapidly expandThe foliage nurseries are assumed to be profit ing segment of commercial agriculture in Florida [1]. maximizers operating within competitive factor and The industry accounted for about $13 million of the product markets. The objective function is thus: agricultural income in 1966 and over $187 million in 1975. The area in production in the state ha...

Potential Antioxidants from Tropical Plants

Medicinal and aromatic plants-new product development for povertyrReduction

Traditional Medicine is very culture based. Every ethnic group has had its traditional medicine based on its indigenous knowledge base. Most traditional medicine systems utilize herbs (plants) as the main source of their therapeutic substances, although minerals and animal products are also utilized. traditional knowledge has often played a role in the development of modern science. Greater eff...

Medicinal and aromatic plants-new product development for povertyrReduction

Traditional Medicine is very culture based. Every ethnic group has had its traditional medicine based on its indigenous knowledge base. Most traditional medicine systems utilize herbs (plants) as the main source of their therapeutic substances, although minerals and animal products are also utilized. traditional knowledge has often played a role in the development of modern science. Greater eff...