The tomato leafminer, Tuta absoluta is a destructive invasive pest of cultivated
tomato and other Solanaceae plants, with yield losses of 80-100%. Mirid
predators are key natural enemies of T. absoluta, but they also ...
Vorster, Juan; Van der Westhuizen, Willem; Du Plessis, Gedion; Marais, D. (Diana); Sparvoli, Francesca; Cominelli, Eleonora; Camilli, Emanuela; Ferrari, Marika; Le Donne, Cinzia; Marconi, Stefania; Lisciani, Silvia; Losa, Alessia; Sala, Tea; Kunert, Karl(Frontiers Media, 2023-10-20)
Proteases, including serine proteases, are involved in the entire life cycle of
plants. Proteases are controlled by protease inhibitors (PI) to limit any
uncontrolled or harmful protease activity. The role of PIs in ...
Anbu, Susanna; Swart, Velushka; Van den Berg, Noelani(Frontiers Media, 2023-11-20)
Plants possess an arsenal of immune receptors to allow for numerous tiers of
defense against pathogen attack. These immune receptors can be located either
in the nucleocytoplasm or on the plant cell surface. NLR gene ...
The aim of this study was to examine the physical characteristics and chemical composition of microplastics in sediments of the Vaal River, South Africa. Microplastics were detected in all samples, with abundance ranging ...
De Bruin, Willeke; Van Zijl, Magdalena Catherina; Aneck-Hahn, Natalie H.; Korsten, Lise(Taylor and Francis, 2024)
Health agencies recommend using hand sanitisers as protection against the coronavirus. Thus far, the emphasis on hand sanitiser studies is limited to an analysis of disinfectant content only. This study aims to provide an ...
Exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is associated with several cutaneous adverse effects. However, to the best of our knowledge, in South Africa there are no formal guidelines on sun protection. A group of South ...
INTRODUCTION : The identification of classes of nutritionally similar food items is
important for creating food exchange lists to meet health requirements and for
informing nutrition guidelines and campaigns. Cluster ...
This paper demonstrates the application of smartphones as well as spectrophotometers as tools to demystify the mechanism leading to colour variation of 1,5-diphenylcarbazide functionalized gold nanoparticles (DPC-AuNPs) ...
Hosting 1460 plant and 126 vertebrate endemic species, the Great Escarpment (hereafter, Escarpment) forms a semi-circular “amphitheater” of mountains girdling southern Africa from arid west to temperate east. Since arid ...
Ochoa-Hueso, Raul; Eldridge, David J.; Berdugo, Miguel; Trivedi, Pankaj; Sokoya, Blessing; Cano-Diaz, Concha; Abades, Sebastian; Alfaro, Fernando D.; Bamigboye, Adebola R.; Bastida, Felipe; Blanco-Pastor, Jose L.; De los Rios, Asuncion; Duran, Jorge; Geisen, Stefan; Grebenc, Tine; Illan, Javier G.; Liu, Yu-Rong; Makhalanyane, Thulani P.; Mamet, Steven; Molina-Montenegro, Marco A.; Moreno, Jose L.; Nahberger, Tina Unuk; Penaloza-Bojaca, Gabriel F.; Plaza, Cesar; Rey, Ana; Rodriguez, Alexandra; Siebe, Christina; Singh, Brajesh K.; Teixido, Alberto L.; Torres-Diaz, Cristian; Wang, Ling; Wang, Jianyong; Wang, Juntao; Zaady, Eli; Zhou, Xiaobing; Zhou, Xin-Quan; Tedersoo, Leho; Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel(Wiley, 2024-05)
Plant–soil biodiversity interactions are fundamental for the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Yet, the existence of a set of globally distributed topsoil microbial and small invertebrate organisms consistently ...
The utilisation of Tenebrio molitor L. (the yellow mealworm) as a cheaper, alternative and readily available ingredient for food and feed is gaining interest globally. However, there has been limited research on locally ...
Amon, Chiguie Estelle Raïssa; Fossou, Romain Kouakou; Ebou, Anicet E.T.; Koua, Dominiqueua K.; Kouadjo, Claude Ghislaine; Brou, Yao Casimir; Voko Bi, Don Rodrigue Rosin; Cowan, Don A.; Zeze, Adolphe(Frontiers Media S.A., 2023-08-24)
The growing understanding that soil bacteria play a critical role in ecosystem
servicing has led to a number of large-scale biogeographical surveys of soil
microbial diversity. However, most of such studies have focused ...
Stink bug species (Pentatomoidea superfamily) have developed an interdependence
with obligate bacterial gut symbionts in specialized midgut crypts (M4 sub-region).
Species of the Enterobacteriaceae family (predominantly ...
Lichenicolous fungi are parasites of lichens. Many of these fungi are referred to as
“black fungi”. A diversity of these black fungi include species that are pathogenic
to humans and plants. A majority of black fungi ...
INTRODUCTION : Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) bacteria are the most
prominent etiological agents of lymphadenitis in pigs. M. avium subspecies
hominissuis (MAH) is a member of MAC and has been reported in many parts
of ...
Mashamaite, Lefentse; Lebre, Pedro H.; Varliero, Gilda; Maphosa, Silindile; Ortiz, Maximiliano; Hogg, Ian; Cowan, Don A.(Frontiers Media, 2023-07-24)
INTRODUCTION : The Antarctic McMurdo Dry Valleys are geologically diverse,
encompassing a wide variety of soil habitats. These environments are largely
dominated by microorganisms, which drive the ecosystem services of ...
Angular equivalence of norms, introduced by Kikianty and Sinnamon (2017), is a notion of norm equivalence that is more attuned to the geometry of the norms. For certain geometrical properties and two angularly equivalent ...