Ethnobryology of the Gosuite Indians of Utah

Flowers, Seville

doi:10.1639/0007-2745(1957)60[11:eotgio]2.0.co;2

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“…Given this, it is very likely that they utilized GSL for salt collection, for trade or self-use, and may have observed algae blooms or other microbiological processes. In fact, the language (and its dialects) of the Shoshonean peoples had a word for algae (Flowers 1957 ). Friction arose with the white people moving into the area from the 1847 Mormon emigration to the Overland Stagecoach and the Pony Express (Cuch 2000 ).…”

Section: Humans and Great Salt Lake Insights And Impacts On Microbiomentioning

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Great Salt Lake microbiology: a historical perspective

Baxter

2018

Int Microbiol

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Over geologic time, the water in the Bonneville basin has risen and fallen, most dramatically as freshwater Lake Bonneville lost enormous volume 15,000–13,000 years ago and became the modern day Great Salt Lake. It is likely that paleo-humans lived along the shores of this body of water as it shrunk to the present margins, and native peoples inhabited the surrounding desert and wetlands in recent times. Nineteenth century Euro-American explorers and pioneers described the geology, geography, and flora and fauna of Great Salt Lake, but their work attracted white settlers to Utah, who changed the lake immeasurably. Human intervention in the 1950s created two large sub-ecosystems, bisected by a railroad causeway. The north arm approaches ten times the salinity of sea water, while the south arm salinity is a meager four times that of the oceans. Great Salt Lake was historically referred to as sterile, leading to the nickname “America’s Dead Sea.” However, the salty brine is teaming with life, even in the hypersaline north arm. In fact, scientists have known that this lake contains a diversity of microscopic lifeforms for more than 100 years. This essay will explore the stories of the people who observed and researched the salty microbiology of Great Salt Lake, whose discoveries demonstrated the presence of bacteria, archaea, algae, and protozoa that thrive in this lake. These scientists documented the lake’s microbiology as the lake changed, with input from human waste and the creation of impounded areas. Modern work on the microbiology of Great Salt Lake has added molecular approaches and illuminated the community structures in various regions, and fungi and viruses have now been described. The exploration of Great Salt Lake by scientists describing these tiny inhabitants of the brine illuminate the larger terminal lake with its many facets, anthropomorphic challenges, and ever-changing shorelines.

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Section: Humans and Great Salt Lake Insights And Impacts On Microbiomentioning

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Great Salt Lake microbiology: a historical perspective

Baxter

2018

Int Microbiol

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“…From the 18th century, physicians were interested in using bryophytes as medicinal alternatives (Drobnik and Stebel, 2014). Flowers (1957), indicated that the majority use of bryophytes as ethnomedicine reported from Chinese, Indian and Native American medicines. Bryophytes are highly used in horticulture in Far East, and Chinese and Indian people use them widely in ethno therapeutics (Kumar et al, 2000;Ando and Matsuo, 1984).…”

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Bryophytes as Hidden Treasure

Yayıntaş¹,

İrkin²

2018

Health Sci. Q.

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Bryophytes are the second largest heterogeneous group of terrestrial plants. The bryophytes placed taxonomically between Algae and Pteridophytes, are further divided into three classes; Hornworts (class Anthocerotae), Liverworts (class Hepaticae) and Mosses (class Musci). They are the most captivating exotic species on earth with distinguishing characteristics. Bryophytes are rich in a variety of secondary biological active compounds. Bryophytes contain potentially useful natural products, including polysaccharides terpenoids, lipids, amino acids and phenylpropanoids. Bryophyte isolated compounds and extracts have cytotoxic, antimicrobial, insecticidal, antiviral, nematocidal effects on smooth and non-striated muscles, weight loss, plant growth regulation and allelopathic activities. In the present review, the therapeutic uses of bryophytes were focused in detail. This will highlight bryophytes as potential source for phytotherapeutic remedies and chemical products used in different fields of chemistry, pharmacology, bioiogy and different branches of life sciences.

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“…Only half of these are used for their medicinal properties (see Table 1). The majority of bryophyte uses as ethnomedicine are reported from traditional Chinese, Indian and Native American medicines (Flowers, 1957). One should be aware that in older literature, bryophytes were often confused with lichens, club-mosses or some vascular plants (Drobnik and Stebel, 2014).…”

Section: Bryophytes and Ethnobotanymentioning

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Bryophytes – an emerging source for herbal remedies and chemical production

Sabovljević

Ikram

et al. 2016

Plant Genet. Resour.

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Bryophytes (including mosses, liverworts and hornworts) are a heterogeneous group of terrestrial plants, which comprise over 24,000 species worldwide. Given the various biological activities reported from bryophytes, they have a huge commercial potential. Due to their minute size and rather small biomass in various ecosystems, bryophytes are a seldom part of ethnomedicine and rarely subject to medicinal and chemical analyses. Still, hundreds of novel natural products have been isolated from bryophytes. Bryophytes have been shown to contain numerous potentially useful natural products, including polysaccharides, lipids, rare amino acids, terpenoids, phenylpropanoids, quinones and many other specialized metabolites. Additionally, different bryophyte extracts and isolated compounds have shown antimicrobial, antiviral, cytotoxic, nematocidal, insecticidal, effects on smooth and non-striated muscles, weight loss, plant growth regulators and allelopathic activities. Bryophytes also cause allergies and contact dermatitis. All these effects highlight bryophytes as potential source for herbal remedies and production of chemicals to be used in various products.

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Ethnobryology of the Gosuite Indians of Utah

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Great Salt Lake microbiology: a historical perspective

Great Salt Lake microbiology: a historical perspective

Bryophytes as Hidden Treasure

Bryophytes – an emerging source for herbal remedies and chemical production

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