A Review on Kombucha Tea—Microbiology, Composition, Fermentation, Beneficial Effects, Toxicity, and Tea Fungus [PDF]
Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, 2014 Abstract Fermentation of sugared tea with a symbiotic culture of acetic acid bacteria and yeast (tea fungus) yields kombucha tea which is consumed worldwide for its refreshing and beneficial properties on human health. Important progress has been made in the past decade concerning research findings on kombucha tea and reports claiming
Rasu Jayabalan
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus alleviates anthracnose disease in tea seedlings
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 Tea has been gaining increasing popularity all over the world in recent years, and its yield and quality depend on the growth and development of tea plants [Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze] in various environments. Nowadays, biotic stress and extreme weather, such as high temperature, drought, waterlogging, pests, and diseases, bring about much pressure ...
Jiaxia Zhang, Qinyu Sun, Tingting Niu
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Ribonucleic acids in different tea fungus beverages [PDF]
Acta Periodica Technologica, 2003 In human nutrition, nucleic acids have to be balanced and limited up to 2 g/day because purines are degraded to urate, and excessive production of urate is a cause of gout which primarily affects adult males.
Malbaša Radomir V. +2 more
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Cultivation of tea fungus on malt extract medium [PDF]
Acta Periodica Technologica, 2002 The possibility of application of malt extract as a source of carbohydrate in a medium for tea fungus was investigated. The beverage obtained on such medium was compared with that prepared in a traditional way with sucrose medium.
Cvetković Dragoljub D. +1 more
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Biosorption of copper(II) and chromium(VI) by modified tea fungus [PDF]
Acta Periodica Technologica, 2012 The tea fungus was found to have good adsorption capacities for heavy metal ions. In this work it was treated with HCl or NaOH at 20°C or 100°C, with the aim to improve its adsorption ability.
Šćiban Marina B. +2 more
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Tea fungus fermentation on a substrate with iron(ii)-ions [PDF]
Acta Periodica Technologica, 2002 Iron is essential element for human metabolism and it is a constituent of both heme- containing and nonheme proteins. Its deficiency can cause serious diseases, i.e. iron-deficiency anemia, with some fatal consequences.
Malbaša Radomir V. +2 more
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Beauveria bassiana acts as a beneficial endophyte in tea crops, modulating microbial communities and metabolic pathways to enhance plant growth [PDF]
BMC Plant BiologyThe entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana is renowned for its insecticidal characteristics; however, its capacity as a plant endophyte within tea plants remains incompletely elucidated.
Meiling Jiang +5 more
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Inoculation of Bacillus velezensis SD24 enhancing the accumulation of tea catechin secondary metabolites [PDF]
Microbiology SpectrumTea (Camellia sinensis) is a globally significant economic crop, and its desirable quality and health benefits are largely credited to catechin derivatives.
Liangliang Yu +5 more
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The availability of a lactose medium for tea fungus culture and Kombucha fermentation [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2012 Kombucha is a traditional beverage that is prepared by fermenting sucrose-sweetened black tea. A medium is inoculated with a cellulose pellicle (popularly known as a “tea fungus”) or fermentation brought from previous cultivation process.
Markov S.L. +2 more
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Marine Drugs, 2022 Four new dimeric sorbicillinoids (1–3 and 5) and a new monomeric sorbicillinoid (4) as well as six known analogs (6–11) were purified from the fungal strain Hypocrea jecorina H8, which was obtained from mangrove sediment, and showed potent inhibitory ...
Shun-Zhi Liu +7 more
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