Fungi for Human Health Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives
Current research lays emphasis on exploring natural products for use in nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals to overcome various side effects of synthetic drugs. Fungi occupy an eminent position among natural sources of food and medicinal importance since a
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ngi for Human Health Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives
Fungi for Human Health
Uzma Azeem • Khalid Rehman Hakeem • M. Ali
Fungi for Human Health Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives
Uzma Azeem Former Assistant Professor in Botany Sanmati Government College of Science Education and Research Jagraon, Ludhiana, Punjab, India
Khalid Rehman Hakeem Department of Biological Sciences Faculty of Science King Abdulaziz University Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
M. Ali Department of Pharmacognosy Jazan University Jazan, Saudi Arabia
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Preface
This book spotlights macrofungi with health-promising properties, which mainly belong to Basidiomycota (Agaricomycotina) and Ascomycota (Pezizomycotina). Macrofungi or higher fungi are ascomycetous and basidiomycetous mushrooms forming conspicuous, epigeous, or hypogeous sporocarps and are large enough to be seen by the naked eye. The consumption of wild macrofungi by man goes back 13,000 years. Macrofungi vary in structure and reproduction and occur in a wide range of habitats in different ecogeographic zones of the world. Ethnomycological surveys across the globe reveal the food value and therapeutic significance of wild species in diet and folk medicine. Scientific research proves the nutritional and pharmacological properties of these macrofungi. The latter are consecrated with a wealth of nutrients such as carbohydrate
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