scholarly journals Recent research advances and ethno-botanical history of miang , a traditional fermented tea ( Camellia sinensis var. assamica ) of northern Thailand

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chartchai Khanongnuch ◽  
Kridsada Unban ◽  
Apinun Kanpiengjai ◽  
Chalermpong Saenjum
2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Funk

In the history of botany, Adam Zalužanský (d. 1613), a Bohemian physician, apothecary, botanist and professor at the University of Prague, is a little-known personality. Linnaeus's first biographers, for example, only knew Zalužanský from hearsay and suspected he was a native of Poland. This ignorance still pervades botanical history. Zalužanský is mentioned only peripherally or not at all. As late as the nineteenth century, a researcher would be unaware that Zalužanský’s main work Methodi herbariae libri tres actually existed in two editions from two different publishers (1592, Prague; 1604, Frankfurt). This paper introduces the life and work of Zalužanský. Special attention is paid to the chapter “De sexu plantarum” of Zalužanský’s Methodus, in which, more than one hundred years before the well-known De sexu plantarum epistola of R. J. Camerarius, the sexuality of plants is suggested. Additionally, for the first time, an English translation of Zalužanský’s chapter on plant sexuality is provided.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Christopher Nyarukowa ◽  
Robert Koech ◽  
Theodor Loots ◽  
Jos Hageman ◽  
Zeno Apostolides

Due to the unpredictable natural droughts that occur, causing tea farmers significant losses in tea estates, a two-day method for distinguishing between drought tolerant (DT) and drought susceptible (DS) Camellia sinensis cultivars was developed. This work was based on known cultivars developed at the Tea Research Institute in Kenya and the Tea Research Foundation for Central Africa in Malawi. This paper contains an in-depth description of the application of the SWAPDT method on four 60-year old, C. sinensis seedling fields in Kenya. The in-filling history of the four fields due to drought-related deaths was obtained from historical records. The SWAPDT method scores correlated very well with the historical records. It has been indicated, from the results obtained in this study, that a sample size of 20 tea trees is sufficient to accurately determine the drought susceptibility of a large tea field of approximately 5-20 hectares, containing 50 000-200 000 tea trees, were the difference between their mean values, as measured by the SWAPDT method, is approximately 10%.


2000 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. JITTIWUTIKARN ◽  
P. SAWANPANYALERT ◽  
N. RANGSIVEROJ ◽  
P. SATITVIPAWEE

Drug use is a major mode of HIV transmission in Thailand. This study determined HIV incidence rates among drug users in a regional drug treatment centre in northern Thailand. A retrospective cohort of repeatedly-hospitalized drug users between 1993 and 1997 was formed and HIV incidence rates were calculated. The overall incidence was 11·44 per 100 person-years of observation. Gender, age, religion, ethnicity, education, employment, income, reasons for drug use, type of drugs, mode of use, spending on drugs, and referral for treatment are associated with HIV incidence. However, there are no associations between HIV incidence and history of treatment and mode of discharge from the centre. This implies that current treatment modality has no impact on HIV infection risk and other therapeutic approaches should be explored.


2020 ◽  
Vol 295 (3) ◽  
pp. 579-589
Author(s):  
Jatupol Kampuansai ◽  
Wibhu Kutanan ◽  
Eszter Dudás ◽  
Andrea Vágó-Zalán ◽  
Anikó Galambos ◽  
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