01781naa a2200181 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000190006024500630007926000090014230000250015152011800017665000130135665000210136965300190139070000260140977301640143519651032017-06-22       2012    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d1 aLAMEIRA, O. A.  aDomestication and breeding of Amazonian Medicinal Species.  c2012  aCap. 21, p. 437-454.  aMedicinal plants have played an importam role in kecping humans healthy, Significant use has been ma de 01' ihese plants throughout lhe world. According to data frorn the World Health Organization (WHO), around 80'% of the world's population have some kind of herb used to relieve painful or unpleasant symptorns. Ofthis total, at lcasr 30%, have used medicinal planrs on medical advice. In Brazil, of the 200 thousand possible plant species, at Icast half could havc some useful therapeuric property, but not even I'x, ofthese has been species adequately studied. Research on these species should bc given full support frorn the public authorities, since ovcr and above the economic facror, they are important for national security and conserving lhe ecosysterns in which they occur. However, because of indiscriminate extractive acriviries and the accelerared and disordered manner in which have been numerous Brazilian regions occupied, especially Arnazonia as a result of intense migratory flows and the opening IIp ofnew agriculrural frontiers, econornically valuable rnany species, and medicinal species in particular, are under threar of extinction or genetic erosion.  aAmazonia  aPlanta Medicinal  aDomesticação1 aOLIVEIRA, E. C. P. de  tIn: BORÉM, A.; LOPES, M. T. G.; CLEMENT, C. R.; NODA, H. (Ed.). Domestication and breeding: amazonian species. Viçosa: Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 2012.