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ArticleJournal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine2022

Ethnomycological study of wild edible and medicinal mushrooms in district Jammu, J&K (UT), India.

Roshi Sharma, Yash Pal Sharma, Sayed Azhar Jawad Hashmi, Sanjeev Kumar, Rajesh Kumar Manhas

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Article in Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Roshi SharmaDepartment of Botany, University of Jammu, Jammu, J&K, 180006, India.
Yash Pal SharmaDepartment of Botany, University of Jammu, Jammu, J&K, 180006, India.
Sayed Azhar Jawad HashmiDepartment of Botany, University of Jammu, Jammu, J&K, 180006, India.
Sanjeev KumarDepartment of Botany, University of Jammu, Jammu, J&K, 180006, India.
Rajesh Kumar ManhasDepartment of Botany, Govt. Degree College, Basohli, J&K, 184201, India. manhasrk@rediffmail.com.
University of Jammu · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundUnion Territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has a rich tradition of usage of wild edible mushrooms (WEMs) for culinary and medicinal purposes. But very few studies, restricted to some regions of the Union Territory, have been conducted to enlist the WEM. District Jammu has never been explored for WEM. Moreover, the quantification of the traditional knowledge of WEM has not been carried out as yet in J&K. Therefore, the present study was conducted in the Jammu district with the aims of enlisting the WEM and its usage, finding the most used WEM, and enumerating the consensus of usage for a species and associated knowledge.

methodsA total of 192 informants between the age of 25 and 87 years were interviewed. The collected information was organized and arranged based on use reports for quantitative analysis. The cultural importance index (CI) and factor informant consensus (F

resultsResults of the present study show that the locals were having knowledge of fourteen fleshy fungi that are mainly utilized for culinary purposes. They also stated various medicinal values of some of these fungi. Agaricaceae and Lyophyllaceae were the most used families, and Termitomyces (5 species) was the most represented genus. Based on CI values, Termitomyces sp. (CI 0.57) was the most important and diversely used species. Termitomyces heimii, Termitomyces clypeatus, and Termitomyces striatus var. annulatus were the other culturally important and frequently consumed species by the locals. More than 78.6% of these WEM were new records as culinary and medicinal for J&K (UT). The values of factor informant consensus (F

conclusionThe inhabitants of district Jammu had good knowledge of WEM, but no documentation, lying of most of the information with elders and uneducated people, and destruction of forests and other natural habitats of WEM pose a serious threat of losing this valuable information in near future. An ardent need is to educate locals regarding regionally available WEM. Further studies are recommended for developing protocols of cultivation of these WEM so that their future availability is ascertained along with creating income resources for the local population.

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AgaricalesAdultAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleForestsHumansIndiaKnowledgeMiddle AgedCultural importanceEthnomycologicalJammuTraditional knowledgeWild edible mushrooms

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