Fungi provide ecological and environmental services to humans, as well as health and
nutritional benefits, and are vital to numerous industries. Fermented food and beverage …

Societal Impact Statement Edible mycorrhizal fungi (EMF) have been consumed since
ancestral times by humans either as food, medicine or for ceremonial use. Nowadays, they …

Background There are many ethnobotanical studies on the use of wild plants and
mushrooms for food and medicinal treatment in Europe. However, there is a lack of …

Techniques to grow oyster mushrooms from culture to harvest were evaluated using locally
available materials. Oyster was successfully grown in Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA). Spawn …

Background Wild edible mushrooms (WEM) are economically significant and used in
traditional medicines worldwide. The region of Jammu and Kashmir (Western Himalayas) is …

Abstract Globally, 1.5 billion people use or trade non-timber forest products (NTFPs) with the
majority of NTFP use and trade occurring at local and regional scales, generally invisible to …

Background Wild mushrooms constitute an important non-timber forest product that provides
diverse substances and services, especially food and income for local communities from …

It has been widely recognized that food security depends on the sustainable use and
provisioning of ecosystem services. The goal of this paper is to present an overview of the …

A series of international sustainability policies currently in negotiation will shape biodiversity
conservation for decades to come. However, discussions of current sustainability policy …

Mushroom production is an economically viable biotechnology process for conversion of
various agro-industrial wastes into food. Mushroom, a fruiting body of macrofungi has been …