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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.
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