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Section 1: Main aspects of our ten plant genera

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Section 1: Main aspects of our ten plant genera

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A. The summary (see PPT attached below) of the main aspects of the 10 genera can be found here with the following information summarized in a table we created to present the results:

Scientific name

Scientific classification

Common or vernacular name

Look, smell, taste

Medicinal and nutritional traits

Species and distribution

Scientific research

Picture(s).

After the PowerPoint document you find the following:

B. Scientific classification overview

C. Phylogeny overview

D. Summary on habitat and Ecology

E. Summary on use and trade.

P.S. For more details, please consult our individual files in section on our "Research Topic".

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In this section, we have filed the 10 files produced by the five plant owners from our team. Each file is consolidating data about one of the following 10 plant genera:
1. Acacia
2. Cichorium
3. Detarium
4. Equisetum
5. Lamium
6. Olea
7. Portulaca
8. Urtica
9. Viola
10. Vitis

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Owner: Isaac Gnoumou

Reign : Plantae

Clade : angiosperms

Clade : True broadleaf weeds

Clade : rosids

Clade : Fabidées

Order : Fabales

Family : Fabaceae

Subfamily : Mimosoideae

Tribe : Ingeae.

My PlantArea has a floristic formation dominated by the families Combretaceae, Leguminosae-Mimosoideae, Leguminosae-Caesalpinioideae.

In these families the 10 most widespread genera are:

1. Acacia,

2. Combretum,

3. Terminalia,

4. Detarium,

5. Pteleopsis,

6. Piliostigma,

7. Pericopsis,

8. Tamarindus,

9. Prosopis

10.  Burkea

There are 18 species of the genus Accacia in my PlantArea. They are very resistant to the dry climate and survive even when the rainfall is very low.

1. Accacia amythethophylla

2. Accacia ataxacantha

3. Accacia dudgeoni

4. Accacia erythrocalyx

5. Accacia gerradii

6. Accacia gourmaensis

7. Accacia hockii

8. Accacia kirkii

9. Accacia leata

10. Accacia macrostachya

11. Accacia mellifera

12. Accacia nilotica

13. Accacia polyacantha ssp. campylacantha

14. Accacia senegal

15. Accacia seya

16. Accacia sieberiana

17. Accacia tortilis ssp. raddiana

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235112646_Cartes_de_distribution_des_especes_du_genre_Acacia_L_au_Burkina_Faso

The vernacular names given to these species of this genus take, as the case may be, acacias, cassiers, mimosa, mulga or tamarins.
In France, we often refer to the common name "acacia" or colloquially called "wtinter mimosa"
Acacia macrostachya or "Zamnin" in the language "Moore" the majority ethnic group of my country.
https://www.mediaterre.org/afrique-ouest/actu,20160118130845.html
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia_(genre)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287309803_Nutritional_potentials_of_Acacia_macrostachya_Reichend_ex_Dc_seeds_of_burkina_faso_Determination_of_chemical_composition_and_functional_properties.

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Owner: Mireille Lucas

Cichorium is a genus of plants in the dandelion tribe within the sunflower family. The genus includes two cultivated species commonly known as chicory  endive, plus several wild species.
It is famous in Belgium because one of its specie is used in our traditional cuisine "Belgian endives".

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Report on Research Topic Group 2 (Cichorium Genus)

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Owner: Isaac Gnoumou

Kingdom: Plantae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genre: Detarium

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Owner: Danny Mattheeusen

Kingdom: | Plantae
Class: | Polypodiopsida
Order: | Equisetales
Family: | Equisetaceae
Genus: | Equisetum

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Report on Research Topic Group 2 - Equisetum

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Owner: Danny Mattheeusen

The genus Lamium: Lamium L.(1753) - Lamier, Dovenetel, Taubnessel.
Kingdom:  | Plantae
| (unranked):  | Angiosperms
| (unranked):  | Eudicots
| (unranked):  | Asterids
| Order:  | Lamiales

Familia: Lamiaceae
Subfamilia: Lamioideae
Tribus: Lamieae
Genus: Lamium

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Report on Research Topic Group 2 - Lamium

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Please find below a table consolidating the data found for our selected 10 plant genera.

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This overview situates where our 10 plant genera are in the Plant Kingdom.

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In this document we have described and summarized the habitat needed by each of our ten plant genera.

P.S. The differences at species level have not been analysed by lack of time.

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Section RESULTS - Habitats & Ecology summary

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Plants have always provided food, fuel, food additives, drugs, pesticides, pigments, resins, perfumes and other important industrial, medicinal and agricultural raw materials. ... Another significant potential of plant biotechnology is in vitro production of fine chemicals using plant cell/organ cultures.

On the next pages, you will find a summary of the use and trade by:

1. By genus

2. By genus and country

3. Back up materials and references.

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Section 2: Current challenges faced by our group plant area

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Section 2: Current challenges faced by our group plant area

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In this section we analyse the stresses faced by our 10 genera as well as their current endangered status (IUCN). We present also our findings from scientific researches on vulnerability criteria and on traits  for survival to future climate change.

We continue with a projection for each plan genus of its chance for the future based upon combined criteria: nutritional value, medicinal rating, endangered level, threat risk level, and vulnerability to climate change.

At the end we advance a few conclusions:

Urgent need to develop constructive human activities to replace destructive ones.

Need to focus on plants with thicker leaves, more efficient water-use strategies, deeper roots, and higher wood density will probably be the ‘winners’.

Plant species displaying these ‘loser’ traits, especially if already rare, endangered or economically important, should be the focus of current and future conservation and management strategies.

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Section Results - Section 2 on current challenges

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Section 3: Recommendations for conservation 

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Section 3: Recommendations for conservation 

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Our team proposes a "nine-fold recommendations strategy for conservation.

Below is the overall picture of this strategy ...

P.S. Details can be found in the below document.

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At the end we conclude that there is an urgent need to integrate research and action on biodiversity and climate change, as well as collaboration at global level!

Please consult our PowerPoint below for more details on our working method.

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Section 4: Our findings (similarities and differences)

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Section 4: Our findings (similarities and differences)

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Water, food (health) and climate are directly related topics that will deserve a lot of attention in the coming decades.
Water is becoming more leading for where food production takes place, and there is a growing competition for water among the various users.

In this section we have researched our findings and have come up with a table consolidating our similarities and differences using 11 criteria related to biodiversity, natural resources stress, climate change, environmental performance and adaptation strategy implementation.

As a result we came up with four natural resources actions applicable to our five Plant Areas:

1. Conserve natural capital

2. Improve production systems

3. Consume more responsibly

4. Reorient financial flows.

For further details, please consult the attached document.

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Section RESULTS - Findings Similarities & Differences

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Section 5: pictures, data, media, etc ...

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Section 5: pictures, data, media, etc ...

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Video on biodiversity action plan in the Philippines.

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Philippine Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (PBSAP)

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A set of shared current challenges were identified such as  human actions (intensive agriculture, changes in ecology of habitats, land use, loss/degradation of habitats, urbanization, high population density, etc.), threats due to abiotic events (droughts, extreme temperatures, floods, storms and fire), as well as the presence of invasive species.

Our study results confirm that flora is mainly threatened by human activities which are also the major causes for the climate change acceleration. This acceleration is also responsible for a new natural selection of plants based on some traits that make them more or less vulnerable. Plants with thicker leaves, more efficient water-use strategies, deeper roots, and higher wood density will probably be the ‘winners’. Some traits are beneficial in response to multiple drivers, and plants with such a combination appear to do particularly well. In contrast, those without these traits will probably be less able to tolerate climate changes.

The study also confirms that the knowledge of the role that biodiversity (including a diversity of habitats) plays in mitigating and adapting to climate change is rapidly growing. Unfortunately, we then discovered that the policy areas for climate change and biodiversity largely remain separate. The result is a lack of robust targets for nature in climate pledges (beyond areas of forest to be planted or restored).

Some of our group’s key findings are:

We are all suffering from “increased drought”.

90% of our plant genera set will probably be a genus of the future (they are now 90% in the status LC = Least concerned /IUCN).

Most of them have nutritional and medical value.

60% has low climate vulnerability.

Thanks to the above results, we are confident to conclude that most of our 10 genera will still be present in 2050 (especially Equisetum that has survived major big threats and is the single surviving genus of a class of primitive vascular plants that dates back to the mid-Devonian period – 350 + million years ago). We are also able to consider them as a promising source for the future to address malnutrition and health.

We finally concluded that “water” is like gold at the time of the Gold Rush and that it is the most valuable natural source for our ten genera survival. We therefore call for more integrative approaches and collaboration between scientists, policy makers/ implementers, private sectors, and between poor and rich countries.

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Our list of final suggestions for the future include:

1. Replace the destructive human activities by constructive ones.

2. Plant species displaying ‘loser’-traits, should be the focus of current conservation and management strategies.

3. Decisions makers, scientists and private sector need to invest preferably in plants that are adaptable to climate change (low vulnerability), have a good nutritional rating (3 and above), present potential medicinal use (3 and above), and not being currently under serious threat.

4. As climate pledges get revised, the knowledge on biodiversity and climate change must inform the process and help raise ambition for nature.

5. Much stronger links between the ecosystem science communities (especially ecologists) and those designing and implementing climate change policy, both at local and global levels.

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Main aspects

Industrial use of medicinal and aromatic plants

European Red List of lycopods and ferns

Viola libanotica

Acacia: all what you need to know

Purslane Weed (Portulaca oleracea): A Prospective Plant Source of Nutrition, Omega-3 Fatty Acid, and Antioxidant Attributes

Comparizon of nutritional properties of Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) flour with wheat and barley flours.

MEDICINAL PLANT FAMILIES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTIC COMPOUNDS

Plants may have both culinary and medicinal properties

Edible rating by genus/species

The 10 plants used in beauty industry

Biotechnology and biodiversity

The Role of Biotechnology in the Conservation of Biodiversity.

The Role of Biotechnology for Conservation and Biologically Active Substances Production of Rhodiolarosea: Endangered Medicinal Species

Plant biotechnology: a tool for development in Africa

Acacia; Cichorium; Detarium; Equisetum; Lamium

Olea; Portulaca; Urtica; Viola; Vitis

State of the World Plants (Kew BG)

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This report is about the study results produced by our group on the scope of ten plant genera selected because "common” to at least one of our 5 plant areas (Belgium, Burkina Faso, Greece, Portugal, and the Philippines).

The aim of our investigation is to deliver answers to the following four questions related to the above topic:

1.  What are the main aspects?

2. What are the current challenges,

3. What recommendations do we provide? And, what are our findings (similarities and differences)?

At the end we deliver our final conclusions and recommendations, including an attempt to answer the following two concerns:

Will our 10 genera still be present in 2050?

Can they be considered as a promising source for the future to address malnutrition and health?

That is why we decided to additionally focus on the flora biodiversity contributing directly or indirectly to these topics.

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Owner: Marina Tserga

Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order:  Lamiales
Family: Oleaceae
Tribe: Oleeae
Subtribe: Oleinae
Genus: Olea

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Owner: Graca Delicado

Kingdom: | Plantae
Clade: | Angiosperms
Clade: | Eudicots
Order: | Caryophyllales
Family: | Portulacaceae
Genus: | Portulaca L

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Owner: Graca Delicado

Kingdom: | Plantae
Clade: | Angiosperms
Clade: | Eudicots
Clade: | Rosids
Order: | Rosales
Family: | Urticaceae
Tribe: | Urticeae
Genus: | Urtica
L.

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Owner: Mireille Lucas

Kingdom: | Plantae
Clade: | Angiosperms
Clade: | Eudicots
Clade: | Rosids
Order: | Malpighiales
Family: | Violaceae
Subfamily: | Violoideae
Tribe: | Violeae
Genus: | Viola

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Report on Research Topic Group 2 (Viola)

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Owner: Marina Tserga

Kingdom: Plantae

Clade: Angiosperms

Clade: Eudicots

Clade: Rosids

Order: Vitales

Family: Vitaceae

Subfamily: Vitoideae

Genus: Vitis

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Team Leader: Mireille Lucas

Owners of the 10 plant genera:

Danny Mattheeusen: Belgium (Atlantic Region) for Equisetum and Lamium;

Mireille Lucas: Belgium (Continental Region) for Cichorium and Viola;

Isaac Gnoumou: Burkina Faso for Acacia and Detarium;

Marina Tserga: Greece, for Olea and Vitis;

Graca Delicado: Portugal, for Portulaca and Urtica.

Other active contributors:

Harold Buenvenida: Philippines.

Non-active members:

Alexandros Papanikolaou (Greece)

Martine Borge (UK)

Sofia Matsagou (Greece).

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This view presents our two other team contributors coming from Burkina Faso and the Philippines.

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This view introduces the European team members to situate them on the biogeography map.

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D. Genus Affiliation to the Kingdom Plantae 

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D. Genus Affiliation to the Kingdom Plantae 

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Video on the value of Equisetum as plant for the future

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Video on the value of Equisetum as plant for the future

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Horsetail - Old World Herb for New World Health | Harmonic Arts

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Stinging Nettle, A Nutritive Herb and Energizing Tea

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Water, a key success factor in our ecosystem to ensure nutrition and health. Plants also depend on water

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Water, a key success factor in our ecosystem to ensure nutrition and health. Plants also depend on water

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Watch this video...

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Did you know that only 1% of Earth's water is fresh and available for consumption? Fresh water is the world's most essential natural resource, but it's also one of the most threatened. National Geographic magazine's April issue celebrates and explores this important resource.

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10 Amazing Benefits Of Purslane - Health Benefits of Purslane

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March 31, 2019.

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Ten Genus* in a Survival Journey on Planet Earth

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Ten Genus* in a Survival Journey on Planet Earth

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* The correct wording is of course "genera" but genus is used here in a humoristic manner.

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First, this report is about the voyage taken by a designated group of ten that turned out to be a real passionate team of five in search of helping each other to discover our ten genera, protect them from threats, and develop conservation actions to give them a bright future.  The voyage took three weeks.

During week one, the five team members discover that they belong to five very diverse Plant Areas (Belgium, Burkina-Faso, Greece, Portugal and the Philippines). They select the ten requested on the base that they are most common within their local geography. Each member works on two genera each to share the workload. For each genus they studied the main aspects of this genus (scientific classification, habitat, ecology, status, threats, use and trade, and conservation). The same exercise was then repeated at the group level. That is when the team decided that - due to the fact that our team members belong to different wealth economical levels - it would be great to add an additional focus in the study scope and include “health and malnutrition”, as two critical concerns for our ecosystem survival. Furthermore, we know that the expected population explosion combined with the effects of climate change will make the situation even worse due to widespread impacts on agriculture. The poor countries in the south (e.g. Burkina Faso) are particularly vulnerable, with weaker economies and limited institutional capacities to adapt. This new focus influenced the rest of our work …

During week 2, the research team explores the level of vulnerability of the genera. They discover that recent scientific studies conclude that plants with thicker leaves, more efficient water-use strategies, deeper roots, and higher wood density will probably be the ‘winners’. Plant species displaying these ‘loser’ traits, especially if already rare, endangered or economically important, must be the focus of current and future conservation and management strategies. As a result, they come up with a nine-fold recommendation for conservation strategy specific by climatic threat, by plant genus, by Plant Area, specific for medicinal plants, for innovative agricultural practices, highlighting also the importance of Ex-situ conservation by Botanic Garden (cryopreservation, seed banking, field gene banking, and cultivation collections).

The final part of the voyage (week three) is about consolidating the final findings, including the differences and similarities between the various Plant Areas. In completing this activity, they feel the need to develop a methodology in order to integrate many performance indexes. They clustered them into three main categories (biodiversity, stress factors, climate change) and add two additional indexes (Environmental Overview Index and Strategy Adaptation Implementation Index). Thanks to that, the team is able to make some recommendations, conclusions and final suggestions.

Why should someone read our entire essay?
For two main reasons. The first one is to know if our 10 plant genera will be “bright eye and bushy tale” in 2050, and if they can be considered as a valuable source for the future? The second one is to travel day-by-day with us and discover our human adventure as you would read a storybook.

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B. Picture of our 10 "Very Important Plant (VIP)" Genera

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B. Picture of our 10 "Very Important Plant (VIP)" Genera

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This is how beautiful they are.

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Current challenges

Restoration of dune grassland in Belgium

Threats to Philippine diversity

Establishing Protected Areas in the Philippines: Emerging Trends, Challenges and Prospects

Biodiversity and climate change: Reports and guidance

Climate Change: which plants will be the winners?

Effect of Climate Change Factors on Processes of Crop Growth and Development and Yield of Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)

Embolism resistance as a key mechanism to understand adaptive plant strategies Frederic Lens, Aude Tixier, Herve´ Cochard , John S Sperry , Steven Jansen and Stephane Herbette

Urtica dioica (Stinging Nettle): A Neglected Plant With Emerging Growth Promoter/Immunostimulant Properties for Farmed Fish

Spatially explicit multi-threat assessment of food tree species in Burkina Faso: A fine-scale approach

Philippines medicinal plant: Cichorium endivia

Effects of increased flooding on riparian vegetation: Field experiments simulating climate change along five European lowland streams

Plants for a Future Database

Impact of population history on Viola calaminaria conservation, an endemic species of calamine sites

Philippine diversity of Family Lamiaceae

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Recommendations

Stratégies de conservation de la diversité végétale des sites métallifères : les enseignements de l’écologie des populations de Viola calaminaria.

Olea europaea IUCN

Action: Restore/create species-rich, semi-natural grassland

Climate Adapt: Adaptation options

Recent developments in ex situ and in situ conservation of ferns

European Red List of Lycopods and Ferns

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Findings

Food Security and Nutrition in the Age of Climate Change

Climate change Post: Portugal

Climate Change: Greece

Climate change: Belgium

Magadiverse countries

Philippines Envrionmental status

PFI - Biodiversity and Habitat Results

Ranking the World’s Most Water-Stressed Countries in 2040

Water: the world most valuable asset

Climate change impacts on water quality and biodiversity

NUMBEO database

CCPI - Climate Change Performance Index

OCDE studies on water

EPI- Environmental Performance Index (Yale University)

What are the consequences of the overexploitation of natural resources?

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1. Title of the research topic

2. Authors of the report and their affiliation

3. Date of the report

4. Executive summary

5. Introduction

6. Results:

Section 1: Main aspects of our 10 plant genera;

Section 2: Current challenges;

Section 3: Recommendations

Section 4: Our findings

Pictures, figures, or other media.

7. Conclusions & suggestions
8. References
9. Individual  reports

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Additional proposed theme for our report!

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Additional proposed theme for our report!

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To focus on flora biodiversity as a key contributor to nutrition and health.

Key concerns:

Are the 10 plant genera we selected likely to still be there in 2050?

Will have they survived the identified stress factors thanks to our recommendations, and can we consider them as being a bright and promising source for the future?