Extinction risk and threats to plants and fungi

E Nic Lughadha, SP Bachman, TCC Leão… - Plants, People …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement There is increasing awareness that plants and fungi, as natural
solutions, can play an important role in tackling ongoing global environmental challenges …

[HTML][HTML] The herbarium of the future

CC Davis - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - cell.com
The~ 400 million specimens deposited across~ 3000 herbaria are essential for:(i)
understanding where plants have lived in the past,(ii) forecasting where they may live in the …

Unlocking plant resources to support food security and promote sustainable agriculture

T Ulian, M Diazgranados, S Pironon… - Plants, People …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement Biodiversity is essential to food security and nutrition locally and
globally. By reviewing the global state of edible plants and highlighting key neglected and …

New scientific discoveries: Plants and fungi

M Cheek, E Nic Lughadha, P Kirk, H Lindon… - Plants, People …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement Research and publication of the planet's remaining plant and
fungal species as yet unknown to science is essential if we are to address the United …

Evaluating natural medicinal resources and their exposure to global change

S Theodoridis, EG Drakou, T Hickler… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Medicinal plants and their bioactive molecules are integral components of nature and have
supported the health of human societies for millennia. However, the prevailing view of …

Medicinal plants meet modern biodiversity science

CC Davis, P Choisy - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Plants have been an essential source of human medicine for millennia. In this review, we
argue that a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to the study of medicinal plants that …

[HTML][HTML] Conservation and economic benefits of medicinal plants: Insights from forest-fringe communities of Southwestern Ghana

M Asigbaase, D Adusu, L Anaba, S Abugre… - Trees, Forests and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Medicinal plants have significant socioeconomic and health benefits, especially in
develo** countries with high poverty rates and limited health care coverage. However, the …

Ten decadal advances in fungal biology leading towards human well-being

A Mapook, KD Hyde, K Hassan, BM Kemkuignou… - Fungal Diversity, 2022 - Springer
Fungi are an understudied resource possessing huge potential for develo** products that
can greatly improve human well-being. In the current paper, we highlight some important …

[HTML][HTML] Future directions for the discovery of natural product-derived immunomodulating drugs: an IUPHAR positional review

CL Wainwright, MM Teixeira, DL Adelson… - Pharmacological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Drug discovery from natural sources is going through a renaissance, having spent many
decades in the shadow of synthetic molecule drug discovery, despite the fact that natural …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering Nicotiana benthamiana as a platform for natural product biosynthesis

D Golubova, C Tansley, H Su, NJ Patron - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Nicotiana benthamiana is a model plant, widely used for research. The susceptibility of
young plants to Agrobacterium tumefaciens has been utilised for transient gene expression …