Jammu, July 28 -- In a significant gesture of scientific achievement and national pride, Professor Yash Pal Sharma, Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences, and Mr. Syed Azhar Jawad Hashmi from the Department of Botany, University of Jammu, called on General Upendra Dwivedi, Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) at New Delhi, to brief him on their recent discovery of a novel edible mushroom - Pleurotus shentelii. This rare species, locally known as 'Shentilli' in the Sheena language, has been found to grow exclusively in the cold, arid Trans-Himalayan region of Drass and Mushkoh in Kargil, Ladakh.
During the meeting, the researchers highlighted the significance of the mushroom, not just as a scientific breakthrough, but also for its potential medicinal, w...