Non-Timber Forest Products: Food, Healthcare and Industrial Applications

PREFACE
Section (A) FOOD AND ASSOCIATED PRODUCTS
1.Food from various forest sourcesBronwen PowellSchool of Dietetics and Human Nutrition and the Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment, McGill University,Montreal, Quebec H9X 3V9, Canada
2.Multifaceted application of edible mushroomR. Cohen, L. Persky, Y. Hadar Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology and The Otto Warburg Center for Biotechnology in Agriculture, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel
3.Oils/fats from forest and their applicationLuiza Helena Meller da SilvaLAMEFI - Physical Measurement Laboratory, Faculty of Food Engineering, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Pará 66075-900, Brazil
4.Sweeteners from plants and their application in modern lifestyleR. S. Pawar, A. J. Krynitsky, J. I. RaderCenter for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, US Food and Drug Administration,5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, MD 20740, USA
5.Nutritional, industrial, and pharmaceutical potential of plant gumB. S. Khatkar, D. Mudgil, S. BarakDepartment of Food Technology,Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology,Hisar 125001, India
6.Spices from forest: from past to present timeLinda C. TapsellDirector, National Centre of Excellence in Functional Foods,University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
7.Potential herbs and spices from forest and their role in liver and kidney diseases managementYonghua WangCenter of Bioinformatics, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
8.Fodder from forest tree spicesDeepak Kumar, Archana BachhetiDepartment of Agriculture, Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun, India

Section (B) MEDICINAL PLANTS AND THEIR PRODUCTS
9.Aromatic plants and herbal drugs from forestAlexander N. ShikovSaint-Petersburg Institute of Pharmacy, Kuzmolovsky, Russia, 2 All Russian Research Institute Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (VILAR), Moscow, Russia
10.Health benefits, traditional and modern uses of natural honeyLiyanage D.A.M. Arawwawala, Industrial Technology Institute, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka
11.Role of traditional chewing sticks in oral hygiene in Africa:  An important non-timber product Fekade Beshah, Yilma HundeIndustrial Chemistry Department, Applied Science College, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, PO. Box 16417, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
12.Ganoderma lucidum: king of mushroomSudhir Thapliyal Bagwan Gramodhyog Samiti, village Shyampur, PO Ambiwala, Premnagar, Dehradun, India
13.Seeds and nuts used in health care and disease preventionR.K. BachhetiDepartment of Industrial Chemistry, College of Applied Science, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Addis Ababa, P.O. Box-16417, Ethiopia
14.Potential application of herbs from forest against heart disease managementL.C. Di StasiPhytopharmaceutical Laboratory, Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Biosciences of Botucatu, UNESP. CP 510, CEP, 18618-000, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil
15.Forest based herbal drug for cancer disease managementAzamal HusenWolaita Sodo University, P.O. Box : 138, Wolaita, Ethiopia
16.Medicinal plants of Himalayan forestsPraveen K. VermaBotany Division, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, India
17.Role of ornamental seed pods in beautification of house and garden and their medicinal significanceNegi, K.S, Tiwari, V., Singh, P., Mehta, Rawat, R.National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (ICAR-NBPGR),Regional Station, Bhowali -263 132 Niglat, Distt. Nainital, Uttarakhand, India
Section (C) INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS 
18.Non-timber forest products: current status and developmentAlice LudvigUniversity of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, BOKU, Peter Jordan Str. 82, 1190, Vienna, Austria
19.Marketing of non-timber forest products: a growing commercial sectorFranz K. Huber, Yang Yongping, and Sun Weibang Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Heilongtan, Kunming 650204, China
20.International market prospects of non-timber forest productsTerry C.H. SunderlandAfrican Rattan Research programme PO BOX 437, Limbe, Cameroon 21.Various bamboos and canes from forest R. C. Sundriyal, T. C. Upreti and R. VaruniG.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development, North East Unit, Vivek Vihar, Itanagar 791 113, Arunachal Pradesh, India
22.Forest as a source of natural dye materialVenkatasubramanian SivakumarChemical Engineering Division, Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Adyar, Chennai 600 020, India
23.Fibre from forest and their importance in modern timeDeepti, Archana BachhetiDepartment of Environment Science, Graphic Era University, Dehradun - 248002, Uttarakhand, India
24.Silk from forest, farms and cultivated plantsFritz VollrathDepartment of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
25.Pulp and paper from forestTesema hailu, R.K. BachhetiDepartment of Industrial Chemistry, College of Applied Science, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Addis Ababa, P.O. Box-16417, Ethiopia
26.Physico-chemical properties and application of some non-cultivated oil-bearing seeds Berrin BozanFaculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Chemical Engineering, Anadolu University, 26470 Eskisehir, Turkey
27.Useful products of insect's origin from forestsRameshwar Singh RattanEntomology and Pesticide Residue Analysis Laboratory, Hill Area Tea Sciences (HATS) Division, Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (CSIR), Post Box-6, Palampur 176061, Himachal Pradesh, India
28.Aromatic oils from forest and their application Miriam A. ApelInstituto de Química, USP, Av. Lineu Prestes 748 B11 T 05508-900 São Paulo, SP Brazil
Section (D) COSMETICS PRODUCTS
29.Commercial, cosmetic and medicinal importance of Sandal (Santalum album): a valuable forest resourceC. C. Giri, C. Anjaneyulu Centre for Plant Molecular Biology (CPMB), OsmaniaUniversity, Hyderabad, 500 007, AP, India
30.Essential oil from forest and their cosmetic applicationsGledson V. BianconiMülleriana: Soc. Fritz Müller of Natural Sciences. PO Box 19093, 81531-980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
31.Use of non-timber forest products in beauty care Md. Abdul HalimDepartment of Forestry and Environmental Science, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
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