Acknowledgements We wish to thank all the respondents of the PFS Consumer

Survey. We are grateful to all the partners of the PlantLIBRA Project, who made this
study possible. Special thanks to colleagues who have contributed to the PlantLIBRA
PFS Consumer Survey and the ePlantLIBRA Database (see front page for members
of the Working Groups); thanks to the PlantLIBRA partners who added the fennel
composition data to the database: Qi Chang and Rui-Le Pan (Institute of Medicinal
Plant Development, China), Lucia Steenkamp (Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research, South Africa) and Jackie Hughes (Institute of Food Research, UK); thanks
also to Viktoria Knaze, Raimon Mil-Villarroel and Liliana Vargas-Murga (Fundacin
para la Investigacin Nutricional, Barcelona Science Park, University of Barcelona,
Barcelona, Spain); The research leading to these results has received funding from
the European Communitys Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/20072013) under
Grant agreement n 245199. It was carried out within the PlantLIBRA project
(website: www. plantlibra.eu). This article does not necessarily reflect the
Commission views or its future policy on this area.
Acknowledgements The authors thank Rob Atwill, Xunde Li, and Marguerite
Pappaioanou for review and commentary on this curricular framework. Funding
support for this project was provided through funding from the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), Cooperative Agreement 1U54FD004327 and Nanjing
Agricultural University. The funding entities were not involved in the writing of this
report or the decision to submit this work for publication.