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The morphological characteristics among closely related Etlingera species of Achasma group were found overlapping which needs to be confirmed molecularly. Hence, the purposes of this study were to reveal the genetic diversity and relationship of four species, namely E. megalocheilos, E. littoralis, E. coccinea and E. metriocheilos using RAPD markers, also to differentiate the species identity of E. cf. megalocheilos specimens from Sulawesi and Java. The results showed that 13 out of 20 OPA primers were successfully amplifying the DNAs target. Five highly polymorphic primers were selected as recommended markers i.e. OPA09, OPA10, OPA11, OPA18, and OPA20. Diversity analysis showed high genetic richness with Shannon index of 0.417 and the number of polymorphic loci of 98.90%. Clustering and PcoA analyses resulted in three clusters following their species identity. Cluster 1 comprised of three specimens of E. littoralis (similarity value of 44.44% to 61.79%). Cluster 2 comprised of E. coccinea and E. metriocheilos (similarity value of 40.32%). Cluster 3 comprised of E. cf. megalocheilos Sulawesi and E. megalocheilos from Java (similarity value of 34.78%). This study has confirmed that the four Etlingera spp. were genetically distinct, and E. cf. megalocheilos from Sulawesi and Java were possibly the same species but still unclear. Further research using DNA barcodes for a more precise identification is required. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bilongkiang is a wild species from the Zingiberaceae family consumed by local people as food, hence commonly traded in the traditional market and only found in two locations in Solok Regency. The objective of this study is therefore to document local knowledge regarding the utilization of Bilongkiang as food in Solok Regency and to put the baseline for conservation effort of local foods by highlighting Bilongkiang as a functional food. The research was carried out using an ethnobotanical approach. Data were collected through observation and interview techniques, which were then qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed. Quantitative data was also evaluated using the Cultural Food Significance Index (CFSI). The study involved 20 informants who have knowledge of and consume Bilongkiang. The results show that the highest cfsi value of Bilongkiangis 48,6 with an age range of 40-55 years of informants, placing its importance at a moderate level. The inflorescence of this plant, that is consumed as food, contains 1.14% carbohydrate, 2.18 % crude fiber, 0.25% total fat, 0.43% protein, 94.2 % liquid, 108 mg/kg calcium and 8.93 mg/kg calorie. As far as this study goes, there has been no knowledge that this plant is being cultivated by the people who consume it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A propose model of integrated interaction using a physical four dimensions (4D) frequency interconnection among organic molecules or compounds in herbal medicine extracted from Maluku/ Halmahera Galoba fruits (zingiberaceae spp.) is presented herein. A detail discussion of multitasking healing system in such organic integrated interaction is explained. Our calculation shows that the above mentioned theory suggests various impacts in developing multitasking herbal medicine as a simple prototype for universe control system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Knowledge-acquaintance and experience the public about efficacious medicinal plants develop from time to time. The biodiversity of the flora in Nusantara is a valuable asset that it needs to be utilized. Each region has the potential nature and knowledge of medicinal plants inherited from an ancestor to should be preserved and developed. This study is to examine the potential medicinal plants in the local community of Pakpak ethnic that is occupied in the Sitinjo 1 village which is commonly used in society and daily life. This study was conducted in September-October 2021. The methodology method is observation and interviews and for the next identification of the plants in the field. The results of this study conducted in the villages around this village found that there are about 37 kinds of plant medicinal frequently used by people to treat various diseases. Medicinal plants are most commonly used in the Asteraceae, Solanaceae, and Zingiberaceae. This study can still be developed because more possible plants could be obtained for the efficacious plant in Pakpak ethnic in Dairi district. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zingiberaceae or empon-emponan/ginger-ginger is a plant that is widely used by the people of Indonesia, generally used as a flavoring in cooking and as an ingredient in traditional medicines. Currently, there are still many species of the Zingiberaceae family that have not been explored. Mean while, several areas in North Sumatra have changed the function of land that used to be forest into oil palm plantations, Eucalyptus and settlements. This of course will be very dangerous for species that have not been identified which of course have the potential to be developed. The purpose of this study was to determine the diversity of species from the Zingiberaceae family that have the potential to be utilized and endemic in several areas of North Sumatra. This research was conducted in the ecotourism forest of Tangkahan, North Sumatra in July 2021. The plants used in this research are plant species from the Zingiberaceae family which have potential as medicine and are often used. This species of research is exploration and descriptive. Based on the results of the study obtained as many as 10 species that were found, including the genus Boesbergia, Globba, Zingiber, Hornstedtia, Amomum, Etlingera. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Here for the first time, an electronics feeling side or anti-hypertension molecule of 2,6 diethyl pyridine in herbal medicine based Galoba fruits (Zingiberaceae sp.) is calculated and reported to have one of the main contribution parts in multitasking physics of natural healing system of "1 medicine with 7 spirits" with the total resistant is 3.319 Rc, where Rc is the carbon resistant. Such feeling natural healing system part was identified from a series of detailed investigations involving theoretical model and calculation, medical tests to HIV virus, inhibition test with a comparison with a world standard chemotherapy drug such as cisplatin, and pharmacology deep research using gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GCMS) with a unique finding of 21 essential chemical substances associated with a multitasking healing organization. These significant natural findings are attractive because of its differences from the normal drug system in which many costumers and pharmacy companies got more benefits by producing 1 excellent drug to 1 target. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jamu is a traditional medicine based on the wisdom of the local community can be used as an alternative to the treatment of several symptoms of the disease, one of which is pain, fever. The purpose of the research is to know the type and use of medicinal plants, the content of active compounds as well as prospective traditional herbal medicine for the community. Direct interview method with purposive sampling technique. In this study, 22 types of medicinal plants were found in bangselok villages. Processing medicinal plants as traditional herbal medicine using traditional methods include, boiled, pounded, embalmed. Family Zingiberaceae is a plant that is often used as a traditional jamu material by the bangselok community. Family Zingiberaceae contains active compounds, including flavonoids, tannins, saponins and steroids that can relieve several diseases including fever and pain, in addition to the family plant, Zingiberaceae found around the house and easy to cultivate. Traditional jamu is an ancestral heritage and is an economic driver for bangselok people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jamu is a traditional medicine based on the wisdom of the local community can be used as an alternative to the treatment of several symptoms of the disease, one of which is pain, fever. The purpose of the research is to know the type and use of medicinal plants, the content of active compounds as well as prospective traditional herbal medicine for the community. Direct interview method with purposive sampling technique. In this study, 22 types of medicinal plants were found in bangselok villages. Processing medicinal plants as traditional herbal medicine using traditional methods include, boiled, pounded, embalmed. Family Zingiberaceae is a plant that is often used as a traditional jamu material by the bangselok community. Family Zingiberaceae contains active compounds, including flavonoids, tannins, saponins and steroids that can relieve several diseases including fever and pain, in addition to the family plant, Zingiberaceae found around the house and easy to cultivate. Traditional jamu is an ancestral heritage and is an economic driver for bangselok people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Curcuma mangga, locally known as "temu mangga" or "kunyit mangga", is a rhizomatous herb of the Zingiberaceae family. The rhizomes of C. mangga are used in Java as a seasoning for food and treatment for stomach aches, fever and cancer-related diseases. In the present paper, the antiplasmodial activity of extract and fraction of C. mangga rhizome has been conducted. The rhizome was extracted with ethanol by using soxhletation extraction. The ethanol extract was fractioned by using Vacuum Liquid Chromatography (VLC) method with eluent of n-hexane:ethyl acetate (2:1), ethyl acetate and ethanol. The extract and fraction were analyzed by using GC-MS. From the GC-MS data, it is showed that the extract and fraction contained (E) -labda-8 (17), 12-dien-15,16-dial compound which is known have a good anticancer activity. This compound is high percentage contained in ethanol extract and n-hexane:ethyl acetate (2:1) fraction. Thus, the antiplasmodial assay was tested in the both samples. The result of antiplasmodial assay showed that n-hexane:ethyl acetate (2:1) fraction could inhibit the parasitemia growth in 10 μg/mL of dosage with the average inhibition of 8.42% while the ethanol extract in 10 μg/mL of dosage could not inhibit the growth of parasitemia. Ethanol extract and n-hexane:ethyl acetate (2:1) fraction have IC50 values of 62.64 μg/mL and 46.17 μg/mL, respectively. Thus, the n-hexane:ethyl acetate (2:1) fraction displayed better antimalarial activity than ethanol extract. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research has investigated extraction of essential oil from five species of Zingiberaceae in Meru Betiri National Park, i.e Zingiber officinale, Kaempferia galanga, Boesenbergia pandurata Roxb., Curcuma domestica, and Curcuma xanthorrhiza D. Dietr. Two extraction methods for obtaining essential oils were carried out by solvent extraction and steam distillation. The results show that majority of plants contain a similar content of essential oil compounds when it was extracted using both extraction methods. Only ginger species contains significantly different essential oil components if applied on both extraction methods. In addition, percent yield of essential oil extracts from most plant species were obtained in higher amount from solvent extraction method than from distillation method. Finally, all essential oil extracts were subjected to antimicrobial activity assays on Eschericia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Salmonella typhi, and Candida albicans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A secretory structure is a structure that produces a plant's metabolite substances. Secretory structures are grouped into an internal and external. Zingiberaceae plants are known as traditional medicine plants and as spice plants due to secretory structures in their tissues. The objective of the research were to describe the secretory structure of Zingiberaceae plants and to discover the qualitatively primary metabolite substances in plant's tissues via histochemistry test. The research was conducted by observation descriptive design, quantitative data including the density of secretory cells per mm2. The quantitative data were analyzed by ANOVA and continued by Duncan at α = 5 %. The results showed that the secretory structures in leaves, rhizome and the root of 14 species of Zingiberaceae plants are found in the mesophyll of leaves and cortex and also pith in rhizome and roots. The type of secretory structure is internal. Within the root of Zingiber cassumunar Roxb.(bengle),Curcuma domestica Val. (kunyit), Curcuma zedoaria (Berg.) Roscoe (kunyit putih), Zingiber zerumbet (L.) J.E. Smith (lempuyang), Alpinia purpurata K. Schum (lengkuas merah) and Curcuma aeruginosa Val. (temu ireng) were found amylum grains, while in Kaemferia galanga L. (kencur), Boesen bergiapandurata L. (temu kunci) and Curcuma xanthorrhiza Roxb. (temulawak) there were no amylum grains in the root as well as in the leaves. The roots of bengle had the greatest density of amylum grain, it had 248.1 ± 9.8 secretory cells of amylum grains per mm2. Lipids (oil droplets) were found in the root of bengle, Zingiber officinale Roxb. Var. emprit (jahe emprit), Zingiber officinale Roxb.Var. Gajah (jahe gajah), Zingiber officinale Roxb. Var. Rubrum (jahe merah), Keampferia angustifolia L. (kunci pepet), kunyit, kunyit putih, lempuyang, lengkua smerah, Curcuma aeruginosa Val. (temu ireng) and Curcuma mangga Val and van Zijp (temu mangga); the root of lempuyang had the greatest density of oil droplets, it had 10.4 ± 2.1 secretory cells of oil droplets per mm2.All of Zingiberaceae's root and leaves did not have secretory cells of protein. Zingiberaceae's rhizomes had amylum grain, protein granules and oil droplets. Jahe merah's rhizomes had the greatest density of amylum grain, it had 198.3 ± 21.1 cells of amylum grain per mm2. Jahe emprit's rhizomes had the greatest density of protein granules, it had254.0 ± 90.0 cells of protein granules per mm2. Kunyit putih's rhizomes had the greatest density of oil droplets, it had 254.0 ± 90.0 cells of oil droplets per mm2. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research is aimed to inventory and collect ginger species from Borneo, especially from Besiq Bermai forest, East Borneo forest. This research was conducted by surveys and using a purposive sampling method. The characterization of Borneo gingers also used a guide to ginger of Borneo. The results showed that there are 19 species which have been recorded in this forest. Amomum, Alpinia, Plagiostachys, Globba, Hornstedtia, Plagiostachys, Zingiber, is genus that found in the forest. The life collections are conserved in Purwodadi Botanical Gardens. The species of Zingiberaceae are Alpinia pubiflora (Benth.) K. Schum., Alpinia aquatica (Retz.) Roscoe, Alpinia capitellata Jack, Alpinia beamanii R.M.Sm. Amomum oliganthum K. Schum, Etlingera pauciflora (Ridl.) R.M.Sm, Elettaria surculosa (K.Schum) B.L. Burrt&R.M. Sm, Hornstedtia rumphii (Sm.) Valeton, Hornstedtia conica Ridl, Hornstedtia reticosa Valeton, Globba pumila Ridl, Plagiostachys bracteolata R.M. Sm, Plagiostachys albiflora Ridl, Plagiostachysbreviramosa Cowley, Zingiber aromaticum Noronha, Zingiber zerumbet (L.) Roscoe ex Sm, Zingiber officinale Roscoe, Zingiber montanum (J.Koenig) Link ex A. Dietr, and Zingiber leptostachyum Valeton. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Globba marantina L is an important Indian medicinal herb of family Zingiberaceae rarely distributed commonly known as "dancing ginger girl". This medicinal tuberous plant has some active constituents used to cure earache and also used as eye drop to cure conjuctivitis. An in vitro conservation and regeneration system was developed for conservation of this rare traditional medicinal plant species. The present slow growth protocol was achieved for long term conservation using both solid and liquid Murashige and Skoog (MS) media with different carbon sources and growth hormones. Half- MS supplemented with Kinetin (3mg/l) and Naphthalene acetic acid (0.5mg/l) was found to be optimum with sucrose (10g/l) and mannitol (10g/l). Subculture duration could be significantly enhanced and the regenerated plants were successfully conserved for a maximum of 220 days. Plants regenerated from conserved cultures were successfully established in soil. On the basis of twelve inter simple sequence repeat primers (ISSR) and morphological characteristic analysis from field up to two generations, no significant variation was observed between the control and in vitro regenerated plants. The present protocol for the first time reports mass propagation and genetic stability of G. marantina which could be used for future commercial exploitation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]