TY - JOUR
T1 - La Etnobotánica y Etnofarmacología de los Tomatillos Silvestres, Physalis longifolia Nutt., y Especies Afines a Physalis
T2 - Una Revisión
AU - Kindscher, Kelly
AU - Long, Quinn
AU - Corbett, Steve
AU - Bosnak, Kirsten
AU - Loring, Hillary
AU - Cohen, Mark
AU - Timmermann, Barbara N.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by grant IND0061464 (awarded to B. Timmermann and K. Kindscher) from the Kansas Bioscience Authority and Heartland Plant Innovations. We have received help from many people with our work on Physalis. Craig Freeman of the R.L. McGregor Herbarium at the University of Kansas has been especially helpful with making species identification. Janet Sullivan of the Albion Hodgdon Herbarium at the University of New Hampshire reviewed the taxonomy in the paper. Maria Pontes Ferreira, Nutrition and Food Science Department, Wayne State University, and Jennifer Delisle, Kansas Biological Survey, helped us with field collections. Dana Peterson and Gorgina Ross (both of the Kansas Biological Survey), respectively, created the distribution map and wrote the Spanish abstract. Important reviews of the manuscript and valuable feedback were provided by Richard Felger, University of Arizona; Richard Ford, Anthropology Department, University of Michigan; and Pam McBride, New Mexico Office of Archeological Studies. Many other staff and students have been helpful in the field, lab, and gardens, including Juan Jose Araya Barrantes, Luanna Bailey, Greg Beverlin, Rachel Craft, Bryn Fragua, Robert Gallagher, Rao Gollapudi, Jason Hering, Tommy Leopard, Kim Scherman, Lauren Service, Ashley Stiffarm, Joe Stogsdill, Robbie Wood III, and Huaping Zhang.
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - The Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology of Wild Tomatillos, Physalis longifolia Nutt., and Related Physalis Species: A Review. The wild tomatillo, Physalis longifolia Nutt., and related species have been important wild-harvested foods and medicinal plants. This paper reviews their traditional use as food and medicine; it also discusses taxonomic difficulties and provides information on recent medicinal chemistry discoveries within this and related species. Subtle morphological differences recognized by taxonomists to distinguish this species from closely related taxa can be confusing to botanists and ethnobotanists, and many of these differences are not considered to be important by indigenous people. Therefore, the food and medicinal uses reported here include information for P. longifolia, as well as uses for several related taxa found north of Mexico. The importance of wild Physalis species as food is reported by many tribes, and its long history of use is evidenced by frequent discovery in archaeological sites. These plants may have been cultivated, or "tended," by Pueblo farmers and other tribes. The importance of this plant as medicine is made evident through its historical ethnobotanical use, information in recent literature on Physalis species pharmacology, and our Native Medicinal Plant Research Program's recent discovery of 14 new natural products, some of which have potent anti-cancer activity.
AB - The Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology of Wild Tomatillos, Physalis longifolia Nutt., and Related Physalis Species: A Review. The wild tomatillo, Physalis longifolia Nutt., and related species have been important wild-harvested foods and medicinal plants. This paper reviews their traditional use as food and medicine; it also discusses taxonomic difficulties and provides information on recent medicinal chemistry discoveries within this and related species. Subtle morphological differences recognized by taxonomists to distinguish this species from closely related taxa can be confusing to botanists and ethnobotanists, and many of these differences are not considered to be important by indigenous people. Therefore, the food and medicinal uses reported here include information for P. longifolia, as well as uses for several related taxa found north of Mexico. The importance of wild Physalis species as food is reported by many tribes, and its long history of use is evidenced by frequent discovery in archaeological sites. These plants may have been cultivated, or "tended," by Pueblo farmers and other tribes. The importance of this plant as medicine is made evident through its historical ethnobotanical use, information in recent literature on Physalis species pharmacology, and our Native Medicinal Plant Research Program's recent discovery of 14 new natural products, some of which have potent anti-cancer activity.
KW - anti-cancer
KW - Ethnobotany
KW - Ethnopharmacology
KW - medicinal
KW - medicinal chemistry
KW - Paleoethnobotany
KW - Physalis longifolia
KW - Tomatillos
KW - traditional ecological knowledge
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U2 - 10.1007/s12231-012-9210-7
DO - 10.1007/s12231-012-9210-7
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84866523979
SN - 0013-0001
VL - 66
SP - 298
EP - 310
JO - Economic Botany
JF - Economic Botany
IS - 3
ER -