title: Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America's Most Valuable Plant
author:  Kristin Johannsen 
description: Though the ginseng root is a mainstay of Chinese medicine, it's as American as apple pie: in fact, for over 300 years, Americans have exported ginseng to China. Today an acre of ginseng can bring a farmer $100,000. Travel and environmental writer Johannsen (<I>Ecotourism in Appalachia: Marketing the Mountains</I>) takes readers into America's ginseng fields and forests. Ginseng is one of the most devilish plants to cultivate, taking up to a decade to be ready for market and growing in only the most specific conditions. Despite the root's persistent popularity, the difficulty of farming ginseng, the constant threat of poachers and the dwindling number of wild ginseng plants has rendered its future uncertain. Instead of focusing on the medicinal powers of ginseng to those who can afford it, Johannsen paints a picture of the poor in Appalachia who still rely on wild ginseng to provide some cash in lean times. Unfortunately, she lapses into long descriptions of ginseng farming that would bore all but the most devoted horticulturalist. For many, ginseng holds the promise of perfect health and miracle cures. Johannsen shows that, for just as many, ginseng holds an even more American dream&mdash;that of instant riches. <I>(Mar.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text:  
  Molecules 2020, 25, 1407; doi:10.3390/molecules25061407 
  www.mdpi.com/journal/molecules 
  Article 
  Supercritical СО2 Extraction and Identification of 
  Ginsenosides in Russian and North Korean Ginseng 
  by HPLC with Tandem Mass Spectrometry 
  Mayya Razgonova 1,2, Alexander Zakharenko 1,2,*, Tai-Sun Shin 3, Gyuhwa Chung 4  
  and Kirill Golokhvast 1,2,5 
  1 SEC Nanotechnology, Engineering school, Far Eastern Federal University, 690091 Vladivostok, Russia; 
  rarf@yandex.ru (M.R.); droopy@mail.ru (G.C.) 
  2 N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources, 190000 Saint Petersburg, Russia  
  3 Division of Food and Nutrition, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Korea; 
  shints@chonnam.ac.kr 
  4 Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Yeosu, 59626, Korea, chung@chonnam.ac.kr 
  5 Pacific Institute of Geography, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 690041 Vladivostok, Russia 
  * Correspondence: rarf@yandex.ru; Tel.: +7-9146-681-935 
  Academic Editor: Dan