Traditional Uses of Wild Edible Mushrooms among the Local Communities of Swat, Pakistan.

ABSTRACT: Mushrooms play a crucial role in human life as well as in nature, providing food, medicine, and carrying out vital processes of decomposition, nutrient recycling, and developing mycorrhizal association with plants. The traditional system of knowledge about identification, collection, and usage of mushrooms has been accumulated through the shared experiences of many generations. Unfortunately, there have been continuous threats to the folk knowledge of mushrooms mainly due to habitat degradation, urbanization, and contemporary medication. The current research was, therefore, aimed to document an ethnomycological knowledge possessed by the ethnic communities of Swat, Pakistan. The purposive randomized sampling was carried out using chain referral method. Ethno-mycological information was col

SUBMITTER: Hussain S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10137476 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature