1. Announcement

   Announcement Pages: 2 - 2

2. Evaluation of three varieties ofOpuntia ficus-indica (L.) Miller as hosts of the Cochineal insectDactylopius coccus costa (Homoptera: Dactylopiidae) in a semiarid area of northeastern Mexico

   • Aldo Tovar
   • Marisela Pando-Moreno
   • Celina Garza

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 7

3. Genetic diversity of Chile (Capsicum annuum var. annuum L.) landraces from Northern New mexico, Colorado, and Mexico

   • Eric J. Votava
   • Jit B. Baral
   • Paul W. Bosland

   OriginalPaper Pages: 8 - 17

4. Capsicum frutescens L. in Southeast and East Asia, and its dispersal routes into Japan

   • Sota Yamamoto
   • Eiji Nawata

   OriginalPaper Pages: 18 - 28

5. A consensus ethnobotany of the Q’eqchi’ Maya of Southern Belize

   • Virginie Treyvaud Amiguet
   • John Thor Arnason
   • Luis Poveda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 29 - 42

6. Plant biodiversity and ethnobotany of Borana pastoralists in Southern Oromia, Ethiopia

   • T. Gemedo-Dalle
   • Brigitte L. Maass
   • Johannes Isselstein

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 65

7. Patterns of local wood use and cutting of Philippine Mangrove Forests

   • Bradley B. Walters

   OriginalPaper Pages: 66 - 76

8. Influence of market orientation on food plant diversity of farms located on Amazonian Dark Earth in the region of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

   • Julie Major
   • Charles R. Clement
   • Antonio DiTommaso

   OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 86

9. Book Reviews

   • Roy E. Halling
   • Kurt Allerslev Reynertson
   • M. Patrick Griffith

   BookReview Pages: 87 - 98