Diarrhoea and related diseases are the most common causes of death in children, especially from developing countries, killing about 1.5 million children under the age of five yearly. In South Africa, diarrhoea is the third ...

Romulea is a genus with numerous attractive and endangered species with horticultural potential. This genus in the Iridaceae has its centre of diversity in the winter-rainfall zone of South Africa. This thesis uses ...

Banana production ranks fifth behind cereals as a food crop and has potential, along with other major crops, to feed the world's increasing population. Globally, continuous efforts and techniques including the use of plant ...

The Orchidaceae makes up the largest and most diverse family of flowering plants. Orchids are popular, often expensive ornamentals, with a broad range of ethnobotanical applications. There is very limited documented ...

Venereal diseases (VDs) are infections that are mainly transmitted through sexual intercourse and amongst these are gonorrhoea, syphilis, chlamydia and trichomoniasis. Gonorrhoea is the most commonly known VD and the widest ...

Kelpak®, a seaweed concentrate (SWC) prepared from the brown seaweed Ecklonia maxima (Osbeck) Papenfuss, improves overall plant mass and fruit yield in a variety of crops. The main active principals isolated from Kelpak® ...

Ceratotheca triloba (Bernh.) E. Mey. ex Hook. f., commonly known as the wild foxglove, is a fast growing annual that is indigenous to southern Africa. The surface of the plant is covered with fine, hair-like trichomes, ...

Major transitions between vertebrate and insect pollination systems have occurred many times during the angiosperm radiation and are associated with evolutionary modifications in floral traits. In the large ancestrally ...

The fungus Fusarium sacchari (Butler) Gams causes stem rot in sugarcane especially in association with the stem borer Eldana saccharina Walker. Sugarcane plants tolerant to F. sacchari PNG40 were obtained by chemical ...

Previous research by Drew et al. (2009) on a SAPPI dendrometer trial, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, yielded growth results for two Eucalyptus grandis clones (termed E. grandis x urophylla (GU) and E. grandis x ...