The importance of genomic variation for biodiversity, ecosystems and people

M Stange, RDH Barrett, AP Hendry - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The 2019 United Nations Global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem
services estimated that approximately 1 million species are at risk of extinction. This …

Veronica Plants—Drifting from Farm to Traditional Healing, Food Application, and Phytopharmacology

B Salehi, M Shivaprasad Shetty, N V. Anil Kumar… - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
The Veronica genus, with more than 200 species, belongs to the Plantaginaceae family and
is distributed over most of the Northern Hemisphere and in many parts of Southern …

The market evolution of medicinal and aromatic plants: A global supply chain analysis and an application of the delphi method in the Mediterranean area

I Taghouti, R Cristobal, A Brenko, K Stara, N Markos… - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
There is an increasing evidence for the significant value and potential of Medicinal and
Aromatic Plants (MAPs) worldwide. Among other non-wood forest products, MAPs are …

Indicators and recommendations for assessing sustainable healthy diets

MM Aldaya, FC Ibañez, P Domínguez-Lacueva… - Foods, 2021 - mdpi.com
Research coupling human nutrition and sustainability concerns is a rapidly developing field,
which is essential to guide governments' policies. This critical and comprehensive review …

Nutritional composition, bioactive compounds, and volatiles profile characterization of two edible undervalued plants: Portulaca oleracea L. and Porophyllum ruderale …

T Fukalova Fukalova, MD García-Martínez, MD Raigón - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Wild edible plants are an important source of healthy food and have played an important
role in traditional Mediterranean diets. In this paper, quality characteristics were typified in …

Ruta angustifolia Pers. (Narrow-Leaved Fringed Rue): Pharmacological Properties and Phytochemical Profile

C Bailly - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
The genus Ruta in the family Rutaceae includes about 40 species, such as the well-known
plants R. graveolens L.(common rue) or R. chalepensis L.(fringed rue), but also much lesser …

[HTML][HTML] Ethnobotanical study of wild edible plants and implications for food security

A Asfaw, E Lulekal, T Bekele, A Debella… - Trees, Forests and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Even though our world is home to a wide variety of plant species, only a small portion have
been used by humans as food. This shows that many plant species in our world have not …

Wild edible plants of andalusia: traditional uses and potential of eating wild in a highly diverse region

G Benítez, J Molero-Mesa, MR González-Tejero - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
A review of ethnobotanical sources focused on traditionally-used wild food plants in
Andalusia (southern Spain), one of the most biodiverse regions in Europe, is carried out …

The close linkage between nutrition and environment through biodiversity and sustainability: Local foods, traditional recipes, and sustainable diets

A Durazzo - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
This special issue,“The Close Linkage between Nutrition and Environment through
Biodiversity and Sustainability: Local Foods, Traditional Recipes, and Sustainable Diets” is …

Searching for Germane questions in the ethnobiology of food scouting

DM Zocchi, G Mattalia, MA Aziz, R Kalle… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In the past two decades, ethnobiologists have increasingly paid attention to the scouting and
documentation of endangered corpora of local food elements and associated traditional …