Commodity Groups
- Cereals and pulses
- Vegetables
- Dyes and tannins
- Ornamentals
- Forages
- Fruits
- Timbers
- Carbohydrates
- Auxiliary plants
- Fuel plants
- Medicinal plants
- Spices and condiments
- Essential oils and exudates
- Vegetable oils
- Stimulants
- Fibres
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including some non-graminaceous cereals (‘pseudo-cereals’) |
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including hedge and wayside plants |
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including feed for fish and insects like silkworm |
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including nuts |
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including bamboos used for construction |
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including bee plants; excluding cereals and pulses |
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including shade and nurse trees, cover crops, live fences, wind-breaks, erosion-controlling plants, land reclamation species, live supports and water-cleaning agents |
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including plants used for the production of charcoal and as tinder |
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including poisonous plants used as pesticide, fish poison or dart poison, and narcotic plants |
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including aromatic woods, and plants producing camphor, latex, resin, balsam, gum, wax and aromatic resin |
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including plants used for beverages, chewing and smoking; excluding narcotic plants |
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including rattans, and plants used for packing and thatching, as tying material, and for making paper baskets, mats, wickerwork and toothbrushes |
The database BASELIST was the most essential database in the initial phases of the PROTA programme. It is a listing of the useful plants and their uses, allowing a convenient subdivision into Commodity Groups. BASELIST led to the publication in 2002 of the ‘Basic list of species and commodity grouping’, listing about 6,400 species in 16 Commodity Groups (also searchable on-line). SPECIESLIST is the internal database where we keep track of amendments to BASELIST in the course of the editing process.
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