BACKGROUND The active ingredients and thus pharmacological efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) at different degrees of parching process vary greatly. OBJECTIVE Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR) was used to develop a new method for rapid online analysis of TCM parching process, using two kinds of chemical indicators (5-(hydroxymethyl) furfural [5-HMF] content and 420 nm absorbance) a...

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The main objective of the current study was to investigate potential plant based wastes be used as tea infusions having beneficial health effects. With this purpose, three different formulations tomato peel, lemon onion tangerine walnut and hazelnut shell, oleaster, olive leaves, cypress cone hawthorn were developed these blends evaluated in terms total phenolics, radical scavenging activity, c...

4 Astrophotonics comes of age: an OH-suppressing infrared fibre (Joss Bland-Hawthorn) 6 Southern vistas of the local universe: what's new in the 6dF Galaxy Survey (Heath Jones et al. Fig. 1: The top panel is the wavelength response of a new technology OH-suppressing fibre developed and patented by the AAO and industrial partner Redfern Optical Components (ROC). The middle panel shows how the re...

Fructus crataegi (hawthorn) is the common name of all plant species in the genus Crataegus of the Rosaceae family. In the present study, three monomers of (+)-catechin (C), (-)-epicatechin gallate (ECg) and (-)-epigallocatechin (EGC) were isolated from the hawthorn under the guide of antibacterial sensitization activity. The bioactivity of the composite fraction in enhancing the antibacterial ...

The genome sequences of Apple chlorotic leaf spot virus (ACLSV) isolates from three accessions of hawthorns (Crataegus pinnatifida) grown at Shenyang Agricultural University were determined using Illumina RNA-seq. To confirm the assembly data from the de novo sequencing, two ACLSV genomic sequences (SY01 and SY02) were sequenced using the Sanger method. The SY01 and SY02 sequences obtained with...

Studies of related populations varying in their degrees of reproductive isolation can provide insights into speciation. Here, the transition from partially isolated host races to more fully separated sibling species is investigated by comparing patterns of genetic differentiation between recently evolved (∼150 generations) apple and ancestral hawthorn-infesting populations of Rhagoletis pomonel...

     Eight samples of flowering tops from six species of the genus Crataegus L., commonly called Hawthorn, from different geographic locations of Iran were standardized according to German Pharmacopoeia monograph on Crataegi folium cum flore (hawthorn leaf with flower) by high-performance thin-layer chromatograph-ic (HPTLC) fingerprinting combining with digital scanni...