Bioprospecting of Neglected and Underutilized Wild Plants for Nutritional and Ethnomedicinal Significance
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Nutrition".
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Interests: climate-resilient agriculture; food security; sustainable agriculture; agrobiodiversity; agricultural sustainability; indigenous and local knowledge (ILK); wild crops
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Interests: agrobiodiversity; food security; genetic resources; genetics; plant breeding
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Interests: plant science; plant biology; plant ecology
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2. Département Génie Biologique, IUT Paul Sabatier, Université Paul Sabatier, 32000 Auch, France
Interests: plant physiology; plant breeding; abiotic stress; bioactive accumulation; essential oils; biofertilizers; cereals; oilseed crop; legumes; vegetables
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Dear Colleagues,
Providing a healthy and balanced diet for a growing population is a global sustainability challenge. Unfortunately, the current human diet across the world is not planet-healthy, as it is majorly depends on nonplant-based and high-carbon intensive agricultural practices. Therefore, it is imperative to double the consumption of plant-based food, especially the use of wild, neglected, and underutilized plants having nutritional and medicinal importance, such as wild leafy vegetables (including red, orange, and green leafy vegetables), wild fruits, wild flowers, wild seeds, and wild tubers to attain three of the UN Sustainable Development Goals viz. ‘no poverty’, ‘zero hunger’, and ‘good health and wellbeing’. Although there are thousands of wild and neglected plant species which are reported to have nutritional and medicinal significance from various parts of the world, the lion’s share are neglected and yet to be utilized for a planet-healthy diet. Therefore, contemporary food production solely depends on a handful of plant species, and there are limited options for dietary diversification and also for exploiting their medicinal and ethnobotanical applications for health and nutritional benefits. In this backdrop, the current Special Issue on “Bioprospecting of Neglected and Underutilized Wild Plants for Nutritional and Ethnomedicinal Significance” aims to encourage the bioprospecting of neglected and underutilized wild plants from various agroclimatic regions of the world for dietary diversification and also to explore their ethnomedicinal importance for a good quality of life and human wellbeing in resource-poor nations.
Prof. Dr. Purushothaman Chirakkuzhyil Abhilash
Prof. Rodomiro Ortiz
Prof. Dr. Milan S. Stankovic
Prof. Dr. Othmane Merah
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Agrobiodiversity
- Analytical advances for bioprospecting
- Balanced diet
- Bioactive compounds from wild plants
- Bioprospecting of wild plants
- Culinary food from wild plants
- Dietary diversification
- ethnobotany of wild plants
- Ethnopharmaceuticals from wild plants
- Food security
- Medicinal uses of wild plants
- Neglected plants
- Nutritional security
- Planet healthy diet
- Traditional knowledge
- Value-added products from wild plants
- Wild plants
- Yet-to-be-used plants
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