foods Article Gathered Wild Food Plants among Diverse Religious Groups in Jhelum District, Punjab, Pakistan Muhammad Majeed 1, Khizar Hayat Bhatti 1, Andrea Pieroni 2,3 , Renata Sõukand 4 , Rainer W. Bussmann 5 , Arshad Mahmood Khan 6 , Sunbal Khalil Chaudhari 7, Muhammad Abdul Aziz 2 and Muhammad Shoaib Amjad 8,* 1 Department of Botany, Hafiz Hayat Campus, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Punjab 50700, Pakistan;
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[email protected] Citation: Majeed, M.; Bhatti, K.H.; Abstract: Recent ethnobotanical studies have raised the hypothesis that religious affiliation can, in Pieroni, A.; Sõukand, R.; Bussmann, certain circumstances, influence the evolution of the use of wild food plants, given that it shapes R.W.; Khan, A.M.; Chaudhari, S.K.; kinship relations and vertical transmission of traditional/local environmental knowledge.