International Journal of Economic Plants
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 2

Contributions to Research on Native Mexican Plants of Economic Importance in Northeast Mexico

  • Author:
  • Ratikanta Maiti
  • Total Page Count: 9
  • Page Number: 103 to 111

Ex-Professor, Biology Faculty, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, San Nicolas de Los Garza, N.L., Mexico

*Correspondence to E-mail: ratikanta.maiti@gmail.com

Online published on 30 June, 2018.

Abstract

The author states a salient out lines of research advances on various aspects of native plants in Northeast of Mexico and high land of Puebla. The native plants studied are Cactus, Mexican plant fibres, medicinal plants, wild fruit tree, wild edible plants such as chile piquin, wild species of Brassica, and Phaseolus, wild maize, and timber yielding plants. The investigation gives the comprehensive idea not only on the composition of the plants, but also information on the individual characteristics distinctly different.

Keywords

Anatomy, morphology, native plants, nutritional value, phenology, physiology