民族植物学知识对于保护全球生物完整性是不可或缺的,并可以为针对新粮食作物和药物的生物勘探提供不可替代的线索。这种生物文化多样性需要在地方一级全面记录这种知识。然而,没有系统地捕获数据,这些区域记录是零散的,几乎无法使用。在这项研究中,我们开发了一个框架,在属的水平上组装跨文化的民族植物学知识,包括捕捉物种多样性及其文化重要性,整合它们的传统用途,定量揭示民族植物学资料的文化间关系。使用这样一个跨文化的民族植物学组合,评估了枸杞属的药用和烹饪价值。同时,分析强调了系统的跨文化民族植物学知识汇编的问题和选择。此处使用的框架可以生成与植物多样性的保护和可持续利用以及目标分类单元内的生物勘探相关的基线数据。
Ethnobotanical knowledge is indispensable for the conservation of global biological integrity, and could provide irreplaceable clues for bioprospecting aiming at new food crops and medicines. This biocultural diversity requires a comprehensive documentation of such intellectual knowledge at local levels. However, without systematically capturing the data, those regional records are fragmented and can hardly be used. In this study, we develop a framework to assemble the cross-cultural ethnobotanical knowledge at a genus level, including capturing the species\' diversity and their cultural importance, integrating their traditional uses, and revealing the intercultural relationship of ethnobotanical data quantitatively. Using such a cross-cultural ethnobotanical assembly, the medicinal and culinary values of the genus
Lycium are evaluated. Simultaneously, the analysis highlights the problems and options for a systematic cross-cultural ethnobotanical knowledge assembly. The framework used here could generate baseline data relevant for conservation and sustainable use of plant diversity as well as for bioprospecting within targeting taxa.