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Big Pharma's Real Roots

Take two infusions of willow bark and call me in the morning.

Centuries before Big Pharma and the big headaches of health-care reform, botanists worked hand in (garden) glove with physicians to return the wan and wasted to rosy good health. So visitors will learn at "Wild Medicine," the new multipart show at the New York Botanical Garden.

The stem of Ephedra, for example, was used to relieve asthma symptoms, coughs, colds and allergies. Take that, Benadryl. The root of Ashwagandha was prescribed to fight stress. The roots, leaves and berries of Belladonna worked as an analgesic and—sometimes rather too well—as a sedative. As for that willow bark, it contains Salicin, a chemical…

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 Big Pharma's Real Roots

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American Journal of Botany

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Annals of Botany

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AoB PLANTS

AoB PLANTS is an open-access, online journal that has been publishing peer-reviewed articles since 2010, with an emphasis on all aspects of environmental and evolutionary plant biology.

Aquatic Botany

Aquatic Botany offers a platform for papers relevant to a broad international readership on fundamental and applied aspects of marine and freshwater macroscopic plants in a context of ecology or environmental biology.

Australian Journal of Botany

Australian Journal of Botany is an international journal for the publication of original research and reviews in plant science with relevance to Southern Hemisphere ecosystems including ecology and ecophysiology, conservation biology and biodiversity...

Blumea - Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants

Blumea is an international journal on the biodiversity, evolution and biogeography of plants, including topics on systematics, floristics, phylogeny, morphology and anatomy. For floristic studies, the focus is on tropical Africa south of the Sahara, tropical Southeast Asia with a strong emphasis on Malesia, and South America with emphasis on the Guianas.

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

The Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society publishes original papers on systematic and evolutionary botany and comparative studies of both living and fossil plants. Review papers are also welcomed which integrate fields such as cytology, morphogenesis, palynology and phytochemistry into a taxonomic framework.

Botany

Published since 1929, this monthly journal features comprehensive research articles and notes in all segments of plant sciences, including cell and molecular biology, ecology, mycology and plant-microbe interactions, phycology, physiology and biochemistry, structure and development, genetics, systematics, and phytogeography. It

Economic Botany

Economic Botany is a quarterly journal published by The New York Botanical Garden for the Society for Economic Botany. Interdisciplinary in scope, Economic Botany bridges the gap between pure and applied botany by focusing on the uses of plants by people.

International Journal of Plant Sciences

The International Journal of Plant Sciences has a distinguished history of publishing research in the plant sciences since 1875. IJPS presents high quality, original, peer-reviewed research from laboratories around the world in all areas of the plant sciences.

Journal of Experimental Botany

The aim of Journal of Experimental Botany (JXB) is to publish papers that advance our understanding of plant biology. Original research should provide new information on fundamental processes or mechanisms including those underpinning the improvement of plants for the sustainable production of food, fuel and renewable materials.

New Journal of Botany

New Journal of Botany aims to become the chief forum for communicating the results of botanical studies relating to the vascular plants and charophytes of northern and western Europe.

Nordic Journal of Botany

Nordic Journal of Botany publishes original contributions on all aspects of the taxonomy, evolution, conservation and biogeography of plants (including algae and bryophytes) and fungi.

Pakistan Journal of Botany

The Pakistan Journal of Botany is an international journal for publication of original research in plant science. Work on all plant groups, including fossil plants, is published. The journal publishes in the areas of: ecology and ecophysiology; conservation biology and biodiversity; forest biology and management; cell and molecular biology; paleobotany; reproductive biology and genetics; mycology and pathology; and structure and development.

South African Journal of Botany

The South African Journal of Botany publishes original papers that deal with the classification, biodiversity, morphology, physiology, molecular biology, ecology, biotechnology, ethnobotany and other botanically related aspects of species that are of importance to southern Africa.

Systematic Botany

Systematic Botany publishes original articles pertinent to modern and traditional aspects of systematic botany, including theory as well as application.