Adulteration and mislabeling of food products and the commercial fraud derived, either
intentionally or not, is a global source of economic fraud to consumers but also to all …

Background Drinking tea constitutes a tradition which is deeply rooted in the culture of
several countries. Moreover, in recent years, tea consumption is growing all over the world …

Tea, a popular aromatic infusion and food supplement, prepared from Camellia sinensis (L.)
Kuntze leaves, is often subjected to adulteration with various undeclared inorganic and plant …

Tea is one of the most consumed beverages in the word. Here we report the concentrations
of metals and phthalates in 32 commercial tea packages. The data were used to estimate …

Taiwan specialty teas are produced with distinct manufacturing processes from specific
cultivars of tea plants in Camellia. Due to the widespread transplantation of Taiwan tea …

The NCBI database has> 15 chloroplast (cp) genome sequences available for different
Camellia species but none for C. assamica. There is no report of any mitochondrial (mt) …

Abstract Holy Basil—Ocimum tenuiflorum—is one of the popular new “superfoods” thought
to act as an antioxidant and to reduce stress and anxiety. However, it is often surrogated with …

Background The era of high throughput sequencing offers new paths to identifying species
boundaries that are complementary to traditional morphology-based delimitations. De novo …

Background: Although there has been some success using DNA barcoding to authenticate
raw natural health product (NHP) botanical ingredients, there are many gaps in our …

Traces of genetic introgression from wild donors that occurred during the origin trajectory of
a crop would be concealed in the existing gene pool of its cultivated varieties. Dissection of …