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A Companion Volume to Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms of Yunnan Province of China by Hai-Yang Liu (Hardback)
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9781032782850
Published:
12 Sep 2025
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
296 pages
Dimensions:
254mm
Weight:
0.000kgs
Author:
Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms of Yunnan Province of China, continues the systematical introduction of the plant morphological characteristics, medicinal history, resource situation, traditional uses, ethnopharmacology, phytochemicals, pharmacological effects, biosynthesis, and sustainable utilization of medicinal plants
The old saying "no prescription can be made without Yunnan medicinal materials" suggests the profound heritage and extensive influence of Yunnan's ethnic medicine culture and medicinal plant resources. This book, a companion volume of Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms of Yunnan Province of China, continues the systematical introduction of the plant morphological characteristics, medicinal history, resource situation, traditional uses, ethnopharmacology, phytochemicals, pharmacological effects, biosynthesis, and sustainable utilization of some important or endemic medicinal plants and mushrooms of Yunnan province of China, including Amomi Fructus, Amomum tsaoko, Angelica sinensis, Aucklandia costus, Gentiana rigescens, Phyllanthus emblica, and Polygonatum kingianu, Tricholoma matsutake, etc. Furthermore, this book offers strategies and advice for sustainable utilization and rational exploitation of medicinal plant resources in Yunnan, drawing on the basis of the author's years of practice in the field. Reviews species-specific natural products discovered from Yunnan medicinal plants, and their bio-activities. Provides a brief introduction to the commercial drugs and health products developed based on these medicinal plants. Discusses the resource availability and conservation status of these medicinal plants. For those threatened species, the causes of their endangerment are summarized and conservation strategies are proposed. Enhances understanding with high-quality original photographs and illustrations of the plants, their habitats, and usage in traditional remedies.
About the Author: Hai-Yang Liu is a professor at State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Natural Medicines, Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He finished his Bachelor's degree in Applied Chemistry (1994) at Sichuan University (Chengdu University of Science and Technology). Then, he received his PhD in Medicinal Chemistry in 2005 from Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. After graduation, he worked in the State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Natural Medicines of KIB, CAS and as a visiting scholar at University of Mississippi in 2014. He was promoted to Full Professor (2014).Yunheng Ji is a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Natural Medicines, and the CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He is an expert in the monocotyledonous families, Asparagaceae and Melanthiaceae, as well as aquatic angiosperms. His research focuses on the evolution, conservation, and sustainable utilization of economically important, endemic, and endangered ("3E") plant taxa, involving in molecular phylogenetics, evolutionary and functional genomics, biogeography, plant taxonomy, and population genetics.Xing Fang is a professor at State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Natural Medicines, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. By comprehensively utilizing techniques such as molecular biology, biochemistry, and phytochemistry, his research focuses on the study of novel structural active secondary metabolites in plants, using phytochemical methods to discover new structurally active natural products, and employing genomics, transcriptomics, enzymology, and other methods to analyze the biological metabolic pathways and enzymatic mechanisms of highly active metabolites.
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