Fiji islands

The hark ot t i7i7iam mii > i ivdUiiieTi nau, a tri-e indigenous to the Fiji Islands, yields ahoul 1 pet cuiit. of oil, hav-ing the following ehar-... 

Raj, U., et al., The occurrence of paralytic shellfish toxins in two species of xanthid crab from Suva barrier reef, Fiji Islands, Toxicon, 21, 4, 547, 1983. 

Main cultivation areas for ginger are India, Malaysia, Taiwan, Australia and the Fiji Islands. Ginger concentrates are used in large amounts in beverages (e.g., ginger ale), as well as in baked goods and confectioneries. FCT 1974 (12) p.901 [8007-08-7], [84696-15-1]. 

Mamanuthaquinone (1) was identified in 1991 as a secondary metabolite of a marine sponge.1 Its name is derived from the site of the organism s discovery, the island Mamanutha near the Fiji Islands. The purple moss-like sponge is classified as Fasciospongia sp. 

The plant (Piper methysticum) grows best near sea level in areas like the Solomon and Fiji Islands, Samoa, Tahiti and New Guinea. With sufficient sunlight, it can reach twenty feet. The psychic components reside within the root—which after three or four years attains a thickness of three to five inches. The roots in older plants become heavy and knotted, accumulating strength and flavor. After six years, such roots may weigh twenty pounds after twenty years they may be as heavy as a hundred pounds. 

The oil from the bark of this tree, indigenous to the Fiji Islands, has a pleasant, aromatic, spicy odour Goulding (J. Chem. Soc. 1903, T 1093-1101) has examined the oil obtained by distilling 50 lb. of the bark with steam. The yield was 71 oz. or 0.92 per cent. 

Plant part The peeled rhizome of the plant which is native to and cultivated in tropical Asia. Main growing areas are India, China, Nigeria, Indonesia, West Africa, Jamaica, Australia, Malaysia and the Fiji Islands. 

As a further example, the British Commonwealth Bureau of Dairy Science has listed (6) the periodical literature regularly searched in preparing Dairy Science Abstracts. This list is exclusive of bulletins, circulars, and reports issued irregularly by government departments, universities, research institutes, and experiment stations. Their latest list of periodicals contains some 453 titles of which only around 73 (or about 16%) are dairy journals. The geographical scope is world wide, including periodicals from such unlikely spots as the Isle of Man, Cyprus, and the Fiji Islands. Actually Dairy Science Abstracts obtains only about 35% of its abstracts from dairying journals. 

Figure 1.1 Kava plants of two different cultivats from the Fiji Islands. The plants are (A) six-months and (B) two-years old. Note the differences in the color and structural characteristics of the leaves and stems. (B) Reprinted from Singh (1992), Kava, an overview,of Ethno-pharmacology, 37, 13 5, with permission from Elsevier Science.

Figure 1.2 A kava drinking party in the Fiji Islands with the author (holding his four month old daughter) and his indigenous Fijian friends.

Dakota State University, USA. Originally from the Fiji Islands, he has also held academic positions at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji, and the University of Alberta, Canada. Dr Singh has published extensively on complementary and alternative medicine, with a special focus on kava, neuropsychopharmacology, and skeletal muscle physiology and pharmacology. 

Patellazoles A-C (77-79), 24-membered thiazole-containing macrolides, were isolated from two specimens of didemnid tunicate, Lissoclinum patella, which were collected from the Fiji Islands [148] and Piti Bomb Holdes, Guam [149]. The patellazoles were potent cytotoxins in the NCI human cell line protocol with mean IC50 values of 10" to 10 pg/ml and antifungal activity against Candida albicans. 

Diplamine was isolated from a Diplosoma sp. tunicate collected in the Fiji Islands. Flash column chromatography of the extract from the tunicate, using silica gel as support and CHCls/MeOH (90 10) as the eluting solvent, yielded 0.08% of diplamine. 

Sorokin M. Ciguatera poisoning in North-west Viti Levu, Fiji Islands. Hawaii Med J 34 207-210, 1975. 

Inoue, A. and Raj, U. An ecological survey of a toxic dinoflagellate, Gambierdiscus toxicus, and two other related unicellular algae in the Fiji Islands, Kagoshima Univ. Res. Center S. Pac. Occassional Papers, No. 5, 105-115, 1985. 

Fiji Islands.—These possess only one soap factory, the output from which is 9 cwt. daily. 

Galal Osman (wind energy), Egyptian Wind Energy Association, Cairo FIJI ISLANDS... 

Oil distilled in the Fiji Islands has a specific gravity 1-018 to 1-0298, acid value about 30, ester value about 17, and ester value after acetylation about 145. In all other respects it corresponds with European distilled oil. 

The bark of Ginnamomvm peditinervitim, a tree indigenous to the Fiji Islands, yields about 1 per cent, of oil, having the following characters —... 

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Raj, U., H. Haq, Y. Oshima, and T. Yasumoto The Occurrence of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins in Two Species of Xanthid Crab from Suva Barrier Reef, Fiji Islands. Toxicon 21, 547 (1983). 

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