Editorial

Abstract

This second issue of the 6th Volume of International Journal of Tea Science (IJTS 6:2) is rather slim but brings to you some very un-usual information. Two Original Research Reports record investigations on the fundamentals: one on the mode of action of tea constituents at molecular level on an important human affliction Alzheimer and another on the metabolic pathways involved in biosynthesis of most bioactive constituent of tea falvanols. A new section has been introduced to carry short reports on items of interest which are not generally found in public domain. We have selected a relatively small tea growing country Vietnam which is characteristic in its diversification of production, processing and exports and another is a report on the initiation of a green field project on introducing tea in Pakistan. These are summarized below.