An in vivo study was carried out to determine the anti-typanosomal effect of aqueous extracts of the bark of Azadiracta indica (neem) in Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense-infected mice. The extracts were orally administered ...

The tea polyphenols have been shown to possess many medicinal properties including antifungal activity, but there have been few studies regarding antifungal activity. The antifungal activity of ...

The antimutagenic effects of the aqueous tea extracts from Kenyan black, green and purple cultivars were evaluated by the Ames test using Salmonella typhimurium tester strains TA 1538. Results obtained showed that tea had ...

In the present study, twelve different types of commercial tea samples were assayed to determine their phenolic composition and antioxidant activity. Reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography using a binary ...

Members of the genus Camellia interbreed relatively freely and several natural species hybrids exist. Species introgression into the cultivated germplasm of tea, Camellia sinensis L. (O. Kuntz), from related Camellia species ...

The health promoting properties of catechins and anthocyanins have been of great interest to researchers in the recent past due to their significant in vitro and in vivo antioxidant activities. Most research on anthocyanins ...

There is a gradual shift to substitute barley with sorghum in brewing industry to reduce the cost of doing business and make beer products more competitive. This study evaluates the sorghum genotypes for desirable malting ...

Reviews the rate of the genetic input (i.e breeding and selection) in quality realization in black tea. Discusses introduction/source of tea planting materials, hybridization, clonal selection and development of synthetic ...

Cadmium is one of the widely used heavy metals (HM) in commercial and industrial products and contributes to environmental contamination in an urban setting. In our previous studies, we established that An. gambiae sensu ...

The random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) assay was used to characterize and estimate genetic relatedness in tea. 27 random nucleotide primers were screened individually within a test array composed of 36 commercial tea ...