by Ajay Sharma, Garima Bhardwaj, Gulzar Ahmad Nayik
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.
Features
- Provides an opportunity to describe the wild edible and medicinal mushrooms from this scientifically significant region.
- Represents a wider variety of mushrooms than previously published in other books.
- Presents
more content related to traditional uses, phytochemistry,
pharmacology, distribution, processing, toxicology, conservation, and
future prospective of individual mushrooms.
- The
plants and mushrooms of the region are valuable resources not only to
local populations but to those living outside the region.
- Scientists
are monitoring the rich Himalayan plant resources and the consequences
of climate change on this precarious ecosystem.
