Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of the Himalayas: Climate Change, Critically Endangered Species and the Call for Sustainable Development

ISBN : 9781032195568

Author : Ajay Sharma

Publisher : CRC Press

Year : 2024

Language : English

Type : Book

Description : This book, as part of the “Natural Products Chemistry of Global Plants” series, describes in detail the health-promoting wild edible and medicinal mushrooms specific to the Himalayas region. The focus of the book is to draw on the rich culture, folklore, and environment of the Upper Himalayas, which represents a scientifically significant region. The Himalayas has rich plant resources and a large diversity of plants and mushrooms, which can provide important health benefits as detailed throughout the text. Drawing attention to these mushrooms with detailed scientific descriptions may help in the awareness and in developing sustainable growth of these important resources._x000D_ Features_x000D_ Provides an opportunity to describe the wild edible and medicinal mushrooms from this scientifically significant region._x000D_ Represents a wider variety of mushrooms than previously published in other books._x000D_ Presents more content related to traditional uses, phytochemistry, pharmacology, distribution, processing, toxicology, conservation, and future prospective of individual mushrooms._x000D_ The plants and mushrooms of the region are valuable resources not only to local populations but to those living outside the region._x000D_ Scientists are monitoring the rich Himalayan plant resources and the consequences of climate change on this precarious ecosystem.

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