New research on the cultural history of the useful plant Linum usitatissimum L. (flax), a resource for food and textiles for 8,000 years

Sabine Karg

doi:10.1007/s00334-011-0326-y

New research on the cultural history of the useful plant Linum usitatissimum L. (flax), a resource for food and textiles for 8,000 years

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany ◽

10.1007/s00334-011-0326-y ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 20 (6) ◽

pp. 507-508 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Sabine Karg

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

Linum Usitatissimum ◽

Linum Usitatissimum L ◽

History Of ◽

New Research

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Erratum to: New research on the cultural history of the useful plant Linum usitatissimum L. (flax), a resource for food and textiles for 8,000 years

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany ◽

10.1007/s00334-011-0334-y ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 79-79

Author(s):

Sabine Karg

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

Linum Usitatissimum ◽

Linum Usitatissimum L ◽

History Of ◽

New Research

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Evidence of the domestication history of flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) from genetic diversity of the sad2 locus

Theoretical and Applied Genetics ◽

10.1007/s00122-005-0103-3 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 112 (1) ◽

pp. 58-65 ◽

Cited By ~ 73

Author(s):

Robin G. Allaby ◽

Gregory W. Peterson ◽

David Andrew Merriwether ◽

Yong-Bi Fu

Keyword(s):

Genetic Diversity ◽

Linum Usitatissimum ◽

Linum Usitatissimum L ◽

History Of

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WHERE TO? FILMING EMIGRATION ANXIETY IN PREWAR LEBANESE CINEMA

International Journal of Middle East Studies ◽

10.1017/s0020743819000011 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 51 (2) ◽

pp. 183-201

Author(s):

Ghenwa Hayek

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

Cultural Narratives ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

The 1950S ◽

The 1960S ◽

New Research ◽

Research Avenue

AbstractI propose that careful reading of films and film coverage provides a new research avenue for scholars interested in the social and cultural history of the 1950s and the 1960s in Lebanon. Looking specifically at the manner in which George Nasser's 1957 filmIla Ayn?(Where To?) embraces and modifies the generic conventions of neorealist melodrama to articulate anxieties over the effects of emigration on Lebanon, this article explores the manner in which contemporaneous cultural critics used the film to, in turn, express their dismay at migration from Lebanon. Reading the film closely for the affects it contains and for those it produced in its readers, I argue that this technique, attendant to both sides of this dynamic, affords us new insights into the manner in which cinema produced during Lebanon's golden period interacted with and complicated the dominant cultural narratives of that era.

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Flax LignansAnalytical Methods and How They Influence Our Understanding of Biological Activity

Journal of AOAC International ◽

10.1093/jaoac/89.4.1147 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 89 (4) ◽

pp. 1147-1157 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Alister D Muir

Keyword(s):

Biological Activity ◽

Linum Usitatissimum ◽

Analytical Methods ◽

Secoisolariciresinol Diglucoside ◽

Underlying Assumption ◽

Ground Seed ◽

Linum Usitatissimum L ◽

History Of ◽

Bioactive Molecule ◽

High Concentrations

Abstract Flaxseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) is a major source of dietary intake of lignans by virtue of the high concentrations (0.71.5) that are present in the seed. The principal lignan present in flaxseed is secoisolariciresinol diglucoside (SDG), which occurs as a component of a linear ester-linked complex in which the C6-OH of the glucose of SDG is esterified to the carboxylic acid of hydroxymethylglutaric acid. Also present in flaxseed and in resulting lignan extracts are significant quantities of 2 cinnamic acid glycosides. Our emerging understanding of the biological activity of flax lignans is based on studies using a variety of materials ranging from whole ground seed to pure SDG. The underlying assumption of most of these studies is that the biological activity of flax lignans results from their conversion to the mammalian lignans enterolactone (EL) and enterodiol (ED). There are, however, several intermediate compounds generated during the digestion and metabolism of flax lignans, including SDG and its aglycones and secoisolariciresinol (Seco), that are good candidates to be the principal bioactive molecule. This review will document the history of the development of lignan analytical methods and illustrate how analytical methods have influenced the interpretation of animal and human trials and our understanding of the biological activity of flax lignans.

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