supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(32060091&31660081);Reserve Talents Project for Young and Middle-Aged Academic and Technical Leaders of Yunnan Province(202105AC160063)。
Roscoea is an alpine or subalpine genus from the pan-tropical family Zingiberaceae,which consists of two disjunct groups in geography,namely the"Chinese"clade and the"Himalayan"clade.Despite extensive research on the ...
In C?te d’Ivoire, ginger (Zingiber officinale Rosc.), generally used to make a drink called “Gnamankoudji”, has become an important source of agricultural income diversification. In order to assess the agromorpholo...
The primary diseases affecting Zingiberaceae plants include ginger plague, spot blotch, anthracnose, leaf spot, leaf blight, and soft rot. Insect pests that pose a threat to these plants encompass root-knot nematode d...
funded by the Forestry Science and Technology Innovation Project of Guangdong Province,China(2020KJCX010).
This study aimed to explore the anti-bacterial and anti-fungal activities of extracts from different parts of plants in the Zingiberaceae family.The inhibitory rate,minimum inhibitory concentration(MIC),and minimum ba...
The seeds of Aframomum melegueta K. Schum (grains of paradise, Zingiberaceae) are used as a common spice in African countries and a fine condiment in the European cuisine. In this study, we evaluated the phytochemical...
supported by the opening project of Laboratory of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yunnan University and Shenzhen Zhongnonghuadu Ecological Technology Co.,Ltd.(R20012)to Z.W.,and the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Hatch project 02685 to W.L.We gratefully acknowledge Daniel B Sloan(Colorado State University)and the personnel of the Wu laboratory for help with providing suggestions and revising the manuscript.
Compared with most flowers where the showy part comprises specialized leaves(petals)directly subtending the reproductive structures,most Zingiberaceae species produce showy“flowers”through modifications of leaves(br...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1602263,41871047,41601061);the Applied Basic Research Program of Yunnan Province(No.2017FB021).
Species delimitation is a key foundation for exploring biodiversity.However,the existence of continuous phenotypic variation in widespread species challenges accurate species delimitation based on classical taxonomy.I...
Amomum Roxb.includes the aromatic and medicinal plants native to tropical and subtropical Asia belonging to the family Zingiberaceae.Members of Amomum genus have been used for a long time in traditional medicine for t...
Objective:To compare the antioxidant and anti-genotoxic properties of Alpinia(A.)galanga,Curcuma(C.)amada,and C.caesia.Methods:Cytotoxicity of ethanolic extracts of A.galanga,C.amada,and C.caesia at selected doses was...
supported by the Yunnan Wanren Project(Nos.YNWR-KJLJ-2019-002 and YNWR-QNBJ-2018-061);the Yunnan Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars(No.2019FI017);the Program of Yunling Scholar,the Youth Innovation Promotion Association,CAS(No.Y201756);the Reserve Talents of Young and Middle-aged Academic and Technical Leaders in Yunnan Province。
Tsaokols A(1)and B(2),two complicated flavanol-monoterpenoid hybrids,were isolated from the dried fruits of Amomum tsao-ko under the guidance of LCMS and bioassay.Their structures were determined by extensive spectros...