The sources of gentamicin resistant pseudomonads and enterobacteria were studied in detail. A total of 1703 gentamicin resistant gram negative bacilli (GRGNB) isolated from patients, staff and their immediate environment ...

A large purse-seine fishery is located in the highly productive southern Benguela System off the western Cape. Purseseine fisheries have been prone to collapse worldwide and management practices have met with limited ...

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The immediate aim of this study was to relate herbage availability, liveweight gain and stocking rate to one another under continuous and rotational grazing so that management recommendations could be formulated for ...

Hypoxoside, a phenolic diglucoside, with a diarylpentane-type structure, is thought to be the medicinally active constituent of corm extracts of Hypoxis hemerocallidea Fisch. & Mey. which are reputed to alleviate the ...

The endogenous cytokinin levels in the brown alga Ecklonia maxima (OSBECK) PAPENF., and the effect of applications of the seaweed concentrate (Kelpak 66) prepared from this alga, on the growth and yield of various ...

Against the background of the increasing pharmaceutical importance of members of the genus Hypoxis L., methods for propagating these plants and for producing hypoxoside (the believed active compound found within Hypoxis ...

The relative distribution of dry matter over shoot and tuberous roots is an important factor in determining the yield of cassava. Under sub-tropical conditions the dry matter distribution pattern is not always efficient. ...

A review of the literature revealed that there is a lack of depth in our knowledge of gymnospermous seeds with regard to the development and germination processes. The phytohormones, particularly the cytokinins have ...

Intact or decapitated Pisum sativum seedlings were used to investigate the correlative inhibition of lateral buds by the shoot apex - a developmental process known as apical dominance. Apical dominance is considered to ...