Biodiversity of South Indian tea clones with detection of plant-based adulterants in tea dust using DNA barcoding.

Tea is by and large a highly penetrated product in south India. Hence the adulteration risk in tea dust gets hiked in the markets. We constructed a standard database using plant plastid markers () and nuclear () locus from prominent south Indian tea clones representing Assam, China, and Cambod varieties.

Synergistic protective effect of leaf buds and flowers against cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity in rats and characterization of its bioactive compounds.

An effective antitumor drug like cisplatin has toxic effects leading to kidney injury. The authors investigated the nephroprotective action of leaf buds (CSB) and its flowers (CSF), both individually and in combined therapy against cisplatin-induced renal injury. Renal functional tests, oxidant, anti-oxidant and histopathology of kidney tissues are assessed.