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Food safety problems are a major hindrance to achieving food security, trade, and healthy living in Africa. Fungi and their secondary metabolites, known as mycotoxins, represent an important concern in this regard. Attempts such as agricultural, storage, and processing practices, and creation of...

Author(s)
Chilaka, C. A.; Obidiegwu, J. E.; Chilaka, A. C.; Atanda, O. O.; Mally, A.
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
Toxins, 2022, 14, 7,
Abstract

This paper introduces the role played by edible fungi and edible fungi industry in constructing the overall situation of food security from three aspects: The proposal and establishment of the concept of edible fungi as a big food, the role of edible fungi in food security and the role of edible...

Author(s)
Li Yu
Publisher
Editorial Department of Journal of Fungal Research, Changchun, China
Citation
Journal of Fungal Research, 2022, 20, 3, pp 157-159
Abstract

Background: Inventorization and promotion of traditionally used local flora can be a better option to gain a wide range of alternative edible resources and multiple nutritional benefits. A perusal of literature highlighted the poor nutritional status of the tribal community living in eastern India...

Author(s)
Mandal, S. K.; Sathi Saha; Saradindu Saha
Publisher
Frontiers Media S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland
Citation
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023, 7, August,
Abstract

Potato late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans, is a critical disease of potato and other solanaceous crops, such as tomato. The history of late blight is, in some ways, the history of modern plant pathology. It received much attention in the mid 1800's by causing the Irish potato famine, and ...

Author(s)
Yuen, J.
Publisher
Springer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Food Security, 2021, 13, 2, pp 247-253
Abstract

The importance of forests to safeguard agricultural production through regulating ecosystem services such as clean water, soil protection, and climate regulation is well documented, yet the contributions of forests and trees to provide food for the nutritional needs of the increasing human...

Author(s)
Chamberlain, J. L.; Darr, D.; Meinhold, K.
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
Forests, 2020, 11, 10,
Abstract

Purpose - This paper aims to address the issue of food security and its role in the inclusion of edible and medicinal mushrooms in the diets of nutritionally vulnerable populations in Colombia, allowing an overview of the nutritional situation and its main structural causes, the importance of food...

Author(s)
Cuesta, M. C.; Castro-Ríos, K.
Publisher
Emerald Publishing, Bingley, UK
Citation
Nutrition & Food Science, 2017, 47, 6, pp 817-828
Abstract

Matching the global food demand by 2050 and to ensure the stability of food security in over than 99 countries, it is necessary to scale up the production of food such as sorghum, wheat, rice, maize and sugarcane which are however natural hosts of Cochliobolus species. Cochliobolus species major...

Author(s)
Bengyella, L.; Yekwa, E. L.; Nawaz, K.; Iftikhar, S.; Tambo, E.; Alisoltani, A.; Feto, N. A.; Roy, P.
Publisher
Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany
Citation
Archives of Microbiology, 2018, 200, 1, pp 119-135
Abstract

The rapid development of genome editing and other new genomic techniques (NGT) has evoked manifold expectations on purposes of the application of these techniques to crop plants. In this study, we identify and align these expectations with current scientific development. We apply a...

Author(s)
Hüdig, M.; Laibach, N.; Hein, A. C.
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
Plants, 2022, 11, 2,
Abstract

The landless food concept's initial goal was to ensure food security for future generations in view of limited land resources. One of the ideas, in this regard, proposes edible insects, fungi, and algae becoming promising food sources and parts of the food chain. Although some cultures are familiar ...

Author(s)
David, W.
Publisher
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands
Citation
Organic Agriculture, 2021, 11, 2, pp 277-284
Abstract

BackgroundIn traditional food systems, especially those of rural populations around the world, wild food plants remain crucial. These resources need to be urgently documented to lay the foundations for sustainable livelihoods and food security. MethodsIn the present field study, we gathered...

Author(s)
Sayed Taufiq Hussain; Sayed Muhammad; Sheharyar Khan; Wahid Hussain; Pieroni, A.
Publisher
BioMed Central Ltd, London, UK
Citation
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2023, 19, 35, pp (01 September 2023)

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