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Ethnobamboology: Traditional Uses of Bamboos and Opportunities to Exploit Genomic Resources for Better Exploitation

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Bamboos, a member of the family Poaceae and subfamily Bambusoideae, represent approximately 1670 species within 125 genera. Bamboos are widely distributed across the world and grow naturally in all the continents except Europe and Antarctica. The plant group had evolved from grasses approximately 30 million years ago, long before human existence. In the eventual development of human society, bamboos had been playing an important role, like always. Bamboo has an enormous potential to contribute to the growth of the rural economy worldwide and hence is known as “green gold of poor.” Due to the high rate of clonal propagation, bamboos can be a good, renewable biosource to meet various demands to cater to the human lifestyle. They have been widely used for many important purposes such as food, fodder, construction, paper, pulp, textile, and pharmaceuticals. However, this chapter is particularly focused on the utility of bamboos as ethnomedicines and medicinally important phytochemicals. Also, multiple, ethnobotanical utilities of bamboos suitable for the daily life of indigenous people such as in the making of handicrafts, artifacts, jewelry, baskets, furniture, and constructions have also been discussed. As a future perspective, prospects of exploiting the available genome resources to make better exploitation of bamboo germplasm have also been discussed.

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MD lab also acknowledge funding from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India [38(1386)/14/EMR-II], [38(1493)/19/EMR-II]; Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India (BT/PR10778/PBD/16/1070/2014, BT/PR28859/FCB/125/3/2018); and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. MB and SD acknowledges fellowship from CSIR, India. The authors thank Suparna Bhattacharyaand Jiten Kalita for providing information on ethnobotanical uses of bamboos from Assam, India. CC thanks the Director, Botanical Survey of India, for providing necessary support.

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Banerjee, S., Basak, M., Dutta, S., Chanda, C., Dey, A., Das, M. (2021). Ethnobamboology: Traditional Uses of Bamboos and Opportunities to Exploit Genomic Resources for Better Exploitation. In: Ahmad, Z., Ding, Y., Shahzad, A. (eds) Biotechnological Advances in Bamboo. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1310-4_14

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