People
Cook, Frances E. M.
| Job Title | Economic Botanist |
|---|---|
| Department | Jodrell |
| Section | Sustainable Uses |
| Science Teams |
Large-Scale Syntheses |
| Joined Kew | 2003 |
| Foreign Language(s) |
Qualifications & Appointments
BSc (Hons), Univ. Liverpool, 1979
MSc, Univ. College, Bangor, 1981.
Role
Potpourri industry liaison and economic botany enquiries.
Provide a service for the identification of plant samples being considered by UK companies for inclusion in potpourri products; their potential toxicity and conservation status is also reported upon. Management of the Potpourri collection and database is undertaken. Co-ordinate responses to over 600 enquiries, received annually, by the Centre for Economic Botany that relate to the uses of plants or their poisonous properties.
Projects
Authentication and Chemical Fingerprinting of Economically Important Species
Selected Publications pre-2001
Davis, S. D., Ambrose, J., Cook, F. E. M. & Prendergast, H. D. V. (1998). The Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL) - what's in it for you? In Prendergast, H.D.V., Etkin, N.L., Harris, D.R. & Houghton, P. J. (eds). Plants for food and medicine. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 295-306.
Peters, C.R and Cook, F.E.M. (eds). (1996). Uses of African plants. In van der Maesen, L.J.G., van der Burgt, X.M. & van Medenbach de Rooy, J.M. (eds). The Biodiversity of African Plants. Proceedings XIV AETFAT Congress, 22-27 August 1994, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 661- 768.
Cook, F.E.M. (1995). Economic Botany Data Collection Standard. Prepared for the International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases for Plant Sciences (TDWG). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 146 pp.
Cook, F.E.M. (1994). African grasses for prevention and remedy of land degradation. In Seyani, J.H. & Chikuni, A.C. (eds). Proceedings of the XIII Plenary meeting AETFAT, Zomba, Malawi, 2-11 April 1991. Zomba, Malawi, National Herbarium and Botanic Gardens of Malawi. 1: 113-135.
Booth, F.E.M. & Wickens, G.E. (1988). Non-timber uses of selected arid zone trees and shrubs in Africa. Rome, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.