Societal Impact Statement There is increasing awareness that plants and fungi, as natural
solutions, can play an important role in tackling ongoing global environmental challenges …

Societal Impact Statement Research and publication of the planet's remaining plant and
fungal species as yet unknown to science is essential if we are to address the United …

Societal Impact Statement Biodiversity is essential to food security and nutrition locally and
globally. By reviewing the global state of edible plants and highlighting key neglected and …

The~ 400 million specimens deposited across~ 3000 herbaria are essential for:(i)
understanding where plants have lived in the past,(ii) forecasting where they may live in the …

Fungi are an understudied resource possessing huge potential for developing products that
can greatly improve human well-being. In the current paper, we highlight some important …

Medicinal plants and their bioactive molecules are integral components of nature and have
supported the health of human societies for millennia. However, the prevailing view of …

Drug discovery from natural sources is going through a renaissance, having spent many
decades in the shadow of synthetic molecule drug discovery, despite the fact that natural …

Background: In the history of medicinal science of the medieval East, the merits of the great
tabibs-physicians Ar-Razi, Avicenna (Ibn Sinо), the scientist-encyclopedist Beruni, Yusufi …

Africa has a rich biodiversity of plants and an active traditional medicine system that takes
advantage of the rich biodiversity to treat various diseases, including diabetes mellitus (DM) …

Protecting nature's contributions to people requires accelerating extinction risk assessment
and better integrating evolutionary, functional and used diversity with conservation planning …