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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.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction, Geographical Region, Mushrooms Diversity, Climate, Sustainability: An Overview of Mushrooms
Farak Ali, Shahnaz Alom, Nilayan Guha, Arpita Paul and Md. Kamaruz Zaman
Chapter 2 Auricularia auricula-judae (Bull.): Major bioactive compounds, health benefits and pharmacological activities
Tenzin Jamtsho, Ugyen and Phurpa Wangchuk
Chapter 3 Boletus edulis Bull., Boletus bicolor
Gurpreet Kaur and Kamalpreet Kaur
Chapter 4 Cordyceps sinensis (Caterpillar fungus) - Yarsagumba and Cordyceps militarisJyoti Gaba, Ekta, Prerna Sood, Tanvi Sahni and Pardeep Kaur
Chapter 5 Grifola frondosa (Dicks.) Gray
Barsha Devi and Nabanita Bhattacharyya
Chapter 6 Hericium erinaceus (Bull.) and Hericium coralloides
Anu Shrivastava and Swati Jain
Chapter 7 Hydnum repandum L.
Riya Chugh, Jagdeep Kaur and Gurmeet Kaur
Chapter 8 Lactarius deliciosus (L.)
Mandheer Kaur, Renuka Sharma, Harjodh Singh, Palki Sahib Kaur, Vikas Menon, Aditya Kumar and Simranjot Kaur
Chapter 9 Laetiporus sulphureus (Bull.) Murrill
Kanika Dulta, Keshav Kumar, Arti Thakur, Somvir Singh, Gözde Koşarsoy Ağçeli and Divyanshi Singh
Chapter 10 Morchella esculenta (Gucchi)/Morchella conica - Krombh/Morcella elata Fr., Family - Morchellaceae
Pooja Kapoor, Priyanka Kumari, Satyaranjan Padhiary, Abhishek Katoch and Jeewan Tamang
Chapter 11 Pleurotus ostreatus (Jacq.) P. Kumm
Sugandha Sharma, Shiv Kumar, Rekha Kaushik, Poonam Baniwal, Rahul Mehra and Yogender Singh Yadav
Chapter 12 Pycnoporus cinnabarinus
Ali Ikram, Farhan Saeed, Muhammad Afzaal, Amna Saleem, Shahid Bashir, Muhammad Zia Shahid and Awais Raza
Chapter 13 The genus Ramaria (Basidiomycota, Agaricales): Diversity, Edibility, and Bioactivity
Kamal Ch. Semwal, Vinod K Bhatt, Ajmal Hussen and Avnish Chauhan
Chapter 14 Schizophyllum commune
Shweta Singh, Chandramani Raj, Harvinder Kumar Singh, R. Gopi, Susheel Kumar Sharma, Chandan Kapoor, Matber Singh, Swati Allen
Chapter 15 Trametes versicolor
Thiribhuvanamala Gurudevan and Parthasarathy Seethapathy
Chapter 16 Tremella fuciformis
Arun Kumar Gupta, Muzamil A. Rather, Shuvam Bhuyan, Bindu Naik, Mukesh S. Sikarwar, Poonam Mishra
Chapter 17 Lesser-known mushrooms: Hellvella crispa (Scop.) Fr., Lactarius volemus (Fr.) Clavulinopsis fusiformis (Sowerby), Hypholoma capnoides (Fr.); Psathyrella spadicea and Suillus granulatus
Manju Nehra, Vikash Nain and Amanjyoti
