Genera plantarum

The history of the use and identification of Cannabis sativa L. is long and complex. It is one of the oldest cultivated plants, used for the production of oil from the seeds, and fibre from the stems for rope and fabrics, and has long been used as a psychoactive drug due to the presence of cannabinoids in the resins produced by the plant. Indeed, there is evidence of cannabis use from Neolithic burial sites. The name Cannabis sativa was first used in Linnaeus Genera Plantarum in 1753, but since that publication there has been considerable debate about the number of species and varieties that exist - this has been recently summarized succinctly by Gigliano [1]. The debate has centred on (i) the characteristics of the fruit, and (ii) meiosis and pollen fertility. It is now generally accepted, however, that there is only one species, namely Cannabis sativa L., which exhibits great diversity due to both selection in the wild and in the cultivated environment. 

Linnaeus, C. Genera Plantarum, Fifth ed. Lars Salvius Stockholm. (An Latin), 1754. 

Steam, W., Four supplementary Linnaean publications Methodus (1736), Demonstrationes Plan-tarum (1753), Genera Plantarum (1754), Ordines Naturales (1764), in Carl Linnaeus Species Plantarum A Facsimile of the First Edition 1753, Vol. 2, Ray Society, London, 1959, pp. 73-104. 

The year 1958 was one of several plausible bicentenaries for Linnaeus (Koerner, 1999). The first editions of his pamphlets Systema Naturae (System of Nature, 1735 first edition) and Genera Plantarum (Genera of Plants, 1737), used the sexual system, but his use of this approach preceded these publications. Linnaeus first used trivial names for species in Species Plantarum (Species of Plants, 1753) and in the tenth edition of Systema Naturae (System of Nature, 1758). Use of the year 1758 probably is meant to celebrate the adoption of trivial names and the consistent use of binomial nomenclature. 

Bentham, G., and Hooker, J. D. (1876) Genera Plantarum, Reeve, London. 

A.L. De-Jussioi, Genera Plantarum Secundarum Orddnes Naturales Di sita 284, Paris, 1789. 

LAB (such as Lb. plantarum and Lb. fermentum, together with members of the genera Leuconostoc and Weissella) accounted for 90-97% of the total active nucrobiota of pozol no streptococci were isolated, although members of the genus Streptococcus accounted for 25-50% of the microbiota (Ampe et al., 1999). The presence of Bifidobacterium, Enterococcus and enterobacteria suggests a fecal origin of some important pozol microorganisms (Ben Omar Ampe, 2000). 

Among the lactobacilli, several species and strains of Lactobacillus, have been isolated from wine. These include the homofermentative species L. casei, L. plantarum, L. sake, and L. homohiochii and the heterofermenters L. brevis, L. hilgardii, L. fructivorans (formerly L. trichoides), L. buchneri, and L.fermentum, The genus Pediococcus comprises three species, Pediococcus... 

Certain lactic acid bacteria (heterofermentative cocci and homofermentative bacilli) degrade citric acid. Among the species found in wine, L. plantarum, L. casei, O. oeni and L. mesenter-oides rapidly use citric acid. Strains of the genus Pediococcus and of the species L. hilgardii and L. brevis cannot. 

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