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Identification of Tea Diseases Based on Spectral Reflectance and Machine Learning

  • Zou, Xiuguo;Ren, Qiaomu;Cao, Hongyi;Qian, Yan;Zhang, Shuaitang
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.435-446
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    • 2020
  • With the ability to learn rules from training data, the machine learning model can classify unknown objects. At the same time, the dimension of hyperspectral data is usually large, which may cause an over-fitting problem. In this research, an identification methodology of tea diseases was proposed based on spectral reflectance and machine learning, including the feature selector based on the decision tree and the tea disease recognizer based on random forest. The proposed identification methodology was evaluated through experiments. The experimental results showed that the recall rate and the F1 score were significantly improved by the proposed methodology in the identification accuracy of tea disease, with average values of 15%, 7%, and 11%, respectively. Therefore, the proposed identification methodology could make relatively better feature selection and learn from high dimensional data so as to achieve the non-destructive and efficient identification of different tea diseases. This research provides a new idea for the feature selection of high dimensional data and the non-destructive identification of crop diseases.

Green tea and type 2 diabetes

  • Park, Jae-Hyung;Bae, Jae-Hoon;Im, Sung-Soon;Song, Dae-Kyu
    • Integrative Medicine Research
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.4-10
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    • 2014
  • Green tea and coffee consumption have been widely popular worldwide. These beverages contain caffeine to activate the central nervous system by adenosine receptor blockade, and due to the caffeine, addiction or tolerance may occur. In addition to this caffeine effect, green tea and coffee consumption have always been at the center of discussions about human health, disease, and longevity. In particular, green tea catechins are involved in many biological activities such as antioxidation and modulation of various cellular lipid and proteins. Thus, they are beneficial against degenerative diseases, including obesity, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and various inflammatory diseases. Some reports also suggest that daily consumption of tea catechins may help in controlling type 2 diabetes. However, other studies have reported that chronic consumption of green tea may result in hepatic failure, neuronal damage, and exacerbation of diabetes, suggesting that interindividual variations in the green tea effect are large. This review will focus on the effect of green tea catechins extracted from the Camellia sinensis plant on type 2 diabetes and obesity, and the possible mechanistic explanation for the experimental results mainly from our laboratory. It is hoped that green tea can be consumed in a suitable manner as a supplement to prevent the development of type 2 diabetes and obesity.

Diseases of Tea Trees II. White Scab of Tea Tree Caused by Sphaceloma theae (차나무의 병해 II. Sphaceloma theae에 의한 차 흰별무늬병)

  • 박서기
    • Korean Journal Plant Pathology
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.383-385
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    • 1995
  • Occurrence of white scab of tea (CAmellia sinensis) showing numerous, small, circular, reddish or yellowish brown spots on young tea leaves was observed at a tea plantation of Boseung, Chonnam, from May to June in 1992-1994. At the late growth stages, the center of the spot became light gray. The causal fungus of the white scab was identified as Sphaceloma theae Kurosawa. Symptoms were produced 5∼6 days after inoculation by the artificial inoculation of s. theae conidia, which was similar to those on naturally infected leaves.

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Antioxidant Activity of Herbal Teas Available on the Korean Market

  • Takako;Lee, Kyeoung-Im;Hiroshi Kashiwagi;Cho, Eun-Ju;Chung, Hae-Young
    • Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.92-96
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    • 1999
  • The effects of aqueous extracts from Korean commercial teas on excessive free radicals were examined utilizing spin trapping, 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical and lipid peroxidation. A potent scavenging effect of green tea and oriental senna tea was dound using sipin trapping. The most effective teasagainst the DPPH radical was green tea, followed inorder by pine leak tea, Chinese gutta percha tea and orietnal senna tea. Similar to the effects of DPPH radical , green tea, pine leaf tea, Chinese gutta percha tea and oriential senna tea had an inhibitory effect on lipid peroxidation. These findings predict that Korean tea is a promising material for scavenging free radicals, and for curing diseases related to free-radical reactions.

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Bioavailability and Efficiency of Ten Catechins as an Antioxidant

  • Shi, John
    • Preventive Nutrition and Food Science
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.327-331
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    • 2002
  • Tea is a pleasant, popular and safe beverage in the world. During the past decade, epidemiological studies have shown that tea catechins intake is associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease. Tea provides a dietary source of health-promoting components to help humans reduce a wide variety of cancer risks and chronic diseases. The antioxidative activity of tea-derived catchins has been extensively studied. The antioxidant effect is a synergistic action between catechins e.g. EGCG, EGC, ECG, EC, pheophytins a and b, and other components in tea leaves, which aye more bioavailable for human body. Green tea has a Higher content of catechins than other kinds of tea. Green tea extract with hot water has high potential and more efficiency to reduce cancer risk than any other tea products or pure EGCG. Protein, iyon, and other food components may interfere with the bioavailability of ten catechins. Interaction of catechins with drug affects the cancer-preventive activity of some cancer-fighting medication. Further studies are required to determine the bioavailability of tea catechins and cancer-preventive functionality.

Anti-allergic Effects of Castanea crenata Leaf Tea (밤나무 잎차(茶)의 항알레르기 효과)

  • Choi, Ok-Beom;Kim, Kyung-Man;Yoo, Gyurng-Soo;Park, Keun-Hyung
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.468-471
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    • 1998
  • Regarding the characterstics of allergic diseases, preventive and continuous treatment is desirable, and tea would be the one of the best functional food formula for it. Here we report the development of tea processing method for the leaves of Castnaea crenata. Two forms of Castnaea crenata leaf tea were prepared, non-fermented steaming tea and semi-fermented rolling tea. Anti-allergic actions of Castanea crenata leaf tea were asessed by testing their effects on the degranulation of mast cells. For this, hexosaminidase release (degranulation marker) from RBL-2H3 cells (mast cell line) was used. At the concentration of $300\;{\mu}g/mL$ of the water extract, the degranulation of RBL-2H3 cells were inhibited 50.4% and 35.4% by non-fermented steaming tea and semi-fermented rolling tea, respectively. These results suggest that the tea processing method we developed could provide a valuable resource for the treatment of allergic diseases.

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Role of tea catechins in prevention of aging and age-related disorders

  • Khanna, Arjun;Maurya, Pawan Kumar
    • CELLMED
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.2.1-2.11
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    • 2012
  • Tea polyphenols especially catechins have long been studied for their antioxidant and radical scavenging properties. Scientists throughout the world have investigated the usefulness of the regular green tea consumption in several disease conditions. In-vitro and in-vivo experiments on catechins especially epigallocatechingallate have revealed a significant role in many ways. Reactive oxygen species have been increasingly implicated in the pathogenesis of many diseases and important biological processes. Toxic effects of these oxidants, commonly referred to as oxidative stress, can cause cellular damage by oxidizing nucleic acids, proteins, and membrane lipids. Oxidative stress has been related to aging and age related disorders. It is found that in a wide variety of pathological processes, including cancer, atherosclerosis, neurological degeneration, Alzheimer's disease, ageing and autoimmune disorders, oxidative stress has its implications. Catechins have been reported to be useful in combating aging and age related disorders like cancer, cardiovascular disorders and neurodegenerative diseases. In this mini review we will discuss such studies done across the globe.

Effect of Pu'er tea extract on C2C12 myoblast differentiation (보이차 열수 추출물의 근아세포 근분화에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Hyoseong;Choi, Sunkyung;Lee, Boyeong;Kim, Eunmi;Lee, Woonghee;Han, Hyosang;Kim, Keekwang
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.18 no.12
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    • pp.585-594
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    • 2020
  • At present, aging-related degenerative muscle diseases are considered a serious problem. However, the drug effect on the treatment and prevention of sarcopenia has not been investigated. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the value of extract of Pu'er tea as a remedy to alleviate the symptoms of sarcopenia. Pu'er tea extracts showed excellent radical scavenging ability. The expression of Myh3 was promoted and myotube formation also was increased by treatment of Pu'er tea extracts. These results suggest that Pu'er tea is a natural substance that promotes myogenesis, and is valuable as a material for pharmaceutical research on the prevention and treatment of various muscle diseases, including sarcopenia. And It is necessary to confirm specific indicator substances of puer tea and further study on this.

Diseases of Tea Trees III. Gray Blight of Tea Tree Caused by Pestalotiopsis longiseta (차나무의 병해 III. Pestalotiopsis longiseta에 의한 차 겹둥근무늬병)

  • 박서기;박기범;차광흥
    • Korean Journal Plant Pathology
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.463-465
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    • 1996
  • 1992∼1994년 전남 보성지방 다원에서 2번차 수확 및 전지후의 차나무에 겹둥근무늬병의 발생이 관찰되었다. 잎에는 다갈색의 원형 내지 부정형의 병반 위에 겹둥근무늬가 형성되었고, 후기에는 병반 위에 겹둥근무늬의 소혹점(분생자층)이 다수 형성되었다. 이 병원균은 Pestalotiopsis longiseta (Spegazzini) Dai et Kobayashi로 분리, 동정되었고, 균 접종 11일 후에 병징이 관찰되기 시작하였다.

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