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  • Spatial diarrheal disease risks and antibiogram diversity of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli in selected access points of the Buffalo River, South Africa 
    Iwu, Chidozie Declan; Nontongana, Nolonwabo; Iwu-Jaja, Chinwe Juliana; Anyanwu, Brilliance Onyinyechi; Du Plessis, Erika Margarete; Korsten, Lise; Okoh, Anthony Ifeanyin (Public Library of Science, 2023-08-24)
    Freshwater sources, often used for domestic and agricultural purposes in low- and middle-income countries are repositories of clinically significant bacterial pathogens. These pathogens are usually diversified in their ...
  • Weak latitudinal trends in reproductive traits of Afromontane forest trees 
    Swart, R.C.; Geertsema, Salome; Geldenhuys, Coert Johannes; Pauw, J.; Coetzee, A. (Oxford University Press, 2024-05)
    BACKGROUND AND AIMS : Is the increase in species diversity patterns towards lower latitudes linked to reproductive traits? Plant reproductive organs influence reproductive isolation and hence species divergence. Abiotic ...
  • Accelerated breeding for Helianthus annuus (sunflower) through doubled haploidy : an insight on past and future prospects in the era of genome editing 
    Mabuza, Londiwe M.; Mchunu, Nokuthula P.; Crampton, Bridget Genevieve; Swanevelder, Dirk Z.H. (MDPI, 2023-02)
    The aim of any breeding process is to fully express the targeted, superior/desirable parent characteristic in the progeny. Hybrids are often used in this dynamic, and complex process for which homozygous parents—which ...
  • Calonectria queenslandica : causal agent of Eucalyptus leaf blight in southern China 
    Li, WenWen; Chen, ShuaiFei; Wingfield, Michael J.; Duong, Tuan A. (American Phytopathological Society, 2023-03)
    Calonectria leaf blight caused by Calonectria spp. is among the most serious diseases affecting the health and sustainability of Eucalyptus plantations in southern China. Recent outbreaks of this disease in GuangDong ...
  • Two new species of Stylochaeton (Araceae: Aroideae) from South Africa 
    Struwig, Madeleen; Le Roux, Precious T.; Siebert, Stefan J.; Van Wyk, Abraham Erasmus (Braam) (Magnolia Press, 2023-10-12)
    We are describing here Stylochaeton glaucophyllum and S. sekhukhuniense, two new species from northeastern South Africa. Both species have a restricted distribution and are endemic to the Sekhukhuneland Centre of Plant ...
  • Reinstatement of the name Petalidium ovatum (Acanthaceae), with an amplified description of the species 
    Swanepoel, Wessel; Dexter, Kyle G.; Loiseau, Oriane; Van Wyk, Abraham Erasmus (Braam) (Magnolia Press, 2023-11)
    The name Petalidium ovatum is reinstated and an amplified description is provided for a species of Petalidium confined to Namibia. Petalidium ovatum used to be treated as a synonym of the widespread P. englerianum, but ...
  • Petalidium karasbergense (Acanthaceae), a new species from Namibia 
    Swanepoel, Wessel; Van Wyk, Abraham Erasmus (Braam) (Magnolia Press, 2023-08-17)
    Petalidium karasbergense, here described as a new species, is only known from the Groot Karasberge (Great Karas Mountains) in southeastern Namibia where it grows on arid hillsides in dwarf shrubland. Diagnostic morphological ...
  • An annotated catalogue of Aloe and Aloiampelos (Asphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae) naturalised and escaped in continental Portugal 
    Smith, Gideon F.; Figueiredo, Estrela; Verloove, Filip; Klopper, Ronell Renett; Silva, Vasco (Magnolia Press, 2023-12-04)
    Three species of Aloe, namely A. arborescens, A. maculata, and A. vera, have been formally recorded as naturalised in the region covered by the Flora iberica project, which includes the Iberian Peninsula [Portugal and ...
  • A taxonomic revision of Aloe sect. Purpurascentes (Asphodelaceae subfam. Alooideae) 
    Klopper, Ronell Renett; Grace, Olwen M.; Klopper, Arrie Willem; Smith, G.F. (Gideon Francois), 1959-; Van Wyk, Abraham Erasmus (Braam) (Magnolia Press, 2023-11-29)
    Aloe sect. Purpurascentes, or the speckled aloes (not to be confused with the maculate aloes, which are members of A. sect. Pictae), occurs in southern and western South Africa and southern Namibia. This section is here ...
  • Elucidating the role of microbial factors and water stress in causing corky crack blemishes on potato tubers in South Africa 
    Gush, Sasha-Lee (University of Pretoria, 2020-04)
    Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the most consumed and economically important vegetable crop in the world and is a staple crop in many communities. However, the potato crop is susceptible to devastation by various diseases ...
  • Strategies to bridge yield gaps in equatorial African upland rice (Oryza sativa L.) production systems 
    Alou, Isaac Newton (University of Pretoria, 2020-02)
    The average rice (Oryza sativa L.) farmer in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) harvests less than 1.5 t ha-1 of grain yield in uplands production systems, while the yield potential is substantially higher. There are large yield ...
  • Progresses of the international community to understand sunflower–pollinator interactions through multiscale approache 
    Catrice, Olivier; Holalu, Srinidhi; Terzic, Sreten; Todesco, Marco; Creux, Nicole Marie; Langlade, Nicolas B. (EDP Sciences, 2023)
    The first web conference on sunflower–pollinator interactions gathered the international community around a major topic for sunflower productivity and ecosystemic biodiversity. Insect-mediated pollination is important ...
  • Vulnerability of mineral-associated soil organic carbon to climate across global drylands 
    Díaz-Martínez, Paloma; Maestre, Fernando T.; Moreno-Jiménez, Eduardo; Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel; Eldridge, David J.; Saiz, Hugo; Gross, Nicolas; Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Yoann; Gozalo, Beatriz; Ochoa, Victoria; Guirado, Emilio; García-Gómez, Miguel; Valencia, Enrique; Asensio, Sergio; Berdugo, Miguel; Martínez-Valderrama, Jaime; Mendoza, Betty J.; García-Gil, Juan C.; Zaccone, Claudio; Panettieri, Marco; García-Palacios, Pablo; Fan, Wei; Benavente-Ferraces, Iria; Rey, Ana; Eisenhauer, Nico; Cesarz, Simone; Abedi, Mehdi; Ahumada, Rodrigo J.; Alcántara, Julio M.; Amghar, Fateh; Aramayo, Valeria; Arroyo, Antonio I.; Bahalkeh, Khadijeh; Ben Salem, Farah; Blaum, Niels; Boldgiv, Bazartseren; Bowker, Matthew A.; Bran, Donaldo; Branquinho, Cristina; Bu, Chongfeng; Cáceres, Yonatan; Canessa, Rafaella; Castillo-Monroy, Andrea P.; Castro, Ignacio; Castro-Quezada, Patricio; Chibani, Roukaya; Conceição, Abel A.; Currier, Courtney M.; Darrouzet-Nardi, Anthony; Deák, Balázs; Dickman, Christopher R.; Donoso, David A.; Dougill, Andrew J.; Durán, Jorge; Ejtehadi, Hamid; Espinosa, Carlos I.; Fajardo, Alex; Farzam, Mohammad; Ferrante, Daniela; Fraser, Lauchlan H.; Gaitán, Juan J.; Gusman Montalván, Elizabeth; Hernández-Hernández, Rosa M.; Von Hessberg, Andreas; Hölzel, Norbert; Huber-Sannwald, Elisabeth; Hughes, Frederic M.; Jadán-Maza, Oswaldo; Geissler, Katja; Jentsch, Anke; Ju, Mengchen; Kaseke, Kudzai F.; Kindermann, Liana; Koopman, Jessica E.; Le Roux, Peter Christiaan; Liancourt, Pierre; Linstädter, Anja; Liu, Jushan; Louw, Michelle Anne; Maggs-Kölling, Gillian; Makhalanyane, Thulani P.; Issa, Oumarou Malam; Marais, Eugene; Margerie, Pierre; Mazaneda, Antonio J.; McClaran, Mitchel P.; Messeder, João Vitor S.; Mora, Juan P.; Moreno, Gerardo; Issa, Oumarou Malam; Marais, Eugene; Margerie, Pierre; Mazaneda, Antonio J.; McClaran, Mitchel P.; Messeder, João Vitor S.; Mora, Juan P.; Moreno, Gerardo; Munson, Seth M.; Nunes, Alice; Oliva, Gabriel; Oñatibia, Gastón R.; Osborne, Brooke; Peter, Guadalupe; Pueyo, Yolanda; Quiroga, R. Emiliano; Reed, Sasha C.; Reyes, Victor M.; Rodríguez, Alexandra; Ruppert, Jan C.; Sala, Osvaldo; Salah, Ayman; Sebei, Julius; Sloan, Michael; Solongo, Shijirbaatar; Stavi, Ilan; Stephens, Colton R.A.; Teixido, Alberto L.; Thomas, Andrew D.; Throop, Heather L.; Tielbörger, Katja; Travers, Samantha; Val, James; Valko, Orsolya; Van den Brink, Liesbeth; Velbert, Frederike; Wamiti, Wanyoike; Wang, Deli; Wang, Lixin; Wardle, Glenda M.; Yahdjian, Laura; Zaady, Eli; Zeberio, Juan M.; Zhang, Yuanming; Zhou, Xiaobing; Plaza, César (Nature Research, 2024)
    Mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC) constitutes a major fraction of global soil carbon and is assumed less sensitive to climate than particulate organic carbon (POC) due to protection by minerals. Despite its importance ...
  • Friends without benefits : extensive cytotype sympatry and polyploid persistence in an African geophyte 
    Vaz de Sousa, Damian; Greve, Michelle; Oberlander, K.C. (Kenneth) (Wiley, 2024-08)
    PREMISE : Polyploidy is a major factor in plant adaptation and speciation. Multiple mechanisms contribute to autopolyploid frequency within populations, but uncertainties remain regarding mechanisms that facilitate ...
  • Evaluation of Lippia scaberrima Sond. and Aspalathus linearis (Burm.f.) R. Dahlgren extracts on human CYP enzymes and gold nanoparticle synthesis: implications for drug metabolism and cytotoxicity 
    Kok, Anna-Mari; Juvonen, Risto; Pasanen, Markku; Mandiwana, Vusani; Kalombo, Michel Lonji; Ray, Suprakas Sinha; Rikhotso‑Mbungela, Rirhandzu; Lall, Namrita (BioMed Central Ltd, 2024-04)
    BACKGROUND: Metabolism is an important component of the kinetic characteristics of herbal constituents, and it often determines the internal dose and concentration of these effective constituents at the target site. The ...
  • Hybrid vigor in Eucalyptus increases resistance against Phytophthora root rot 
    Bose, Tanay; Hammerbacher, Almuth; Jones, Wayne; Roux, Jolanda; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Michael J. (Springer, 2023-04)
    Eucalyptus nitens is a cold-tolerant eucalypt that is native to Eastern Australia. Pure E. nitens as well as its hybrids, such as Eucalyptus grandis × Eucalyptus nitens, is propagated commercially in various regions of ...
  • Steroids and fatty acid esters from Cyperus sexangularis leaf and their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-elastase properties 
    Miya, Gugulethu Mathews; Oriola, Ayodeji Oluwabunmi; Payne, Bianca D.; Cuyler, Marize; Lall, Namrita; Oyedeji, Adebola Omowunmi (MDPI, 2023-04-13)
    Cyperus sexangularis (CS) is a plant in the sedges family (Cyperaceae) that grows abundantly in swampy areas. The leaf sheath of plants in the Cyperus genus are mostly used domestically for mat making, while they are ...
  • Advances in the integration of microalgal communities for biomonitoring of metal pollution in aquatic ecosystems of sub-Saharan Africa 
    Mulenga, Mary; Monde, Concillia; Johnson, Todd; Ouma, Kennedy O.; Syampungani, Stephen (Springer, 2024-06)
    This review elucidated the recent advances in integrating microalgal communities in monitoring metal pollution in aquatic ecosystems of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It also highlighted the potential of incorporating microalgae ...
  • Irrigation should be explored as a sustainable management solution to the acid mine drainage legacy of the Witwatersrand goldfields 
    Annandale, John George; Du Plessis, Meiring; Tanner, Philip Dale; Heuer, Sarah; Madiseng, Lesego (Springer, 2023-12)
    Mine closure in the Witwatersrand Goldfields of South Africa has resulted in an acid mine drainage (AMD) legacy that is difficult to manage and costly to address. As a short-term measure, three large high-density sludge ...
  • Microbiome interconnectedness throughout environments with major consequences for healthy people and a healthy planet 
    Sessitsch, Angela; Wakelin, Steve; Schloter, Michael; Maguin, Emmanuelle; Cernava, Tomislav; Champomier-Verges, Marie-Christine; Charles, Trevor C.; Cotter, Paul D.; Ferrocino, Ilario; Kriaa, Aicha; Lebre, Pedro H.; Cowan, Don A.; Lange, Lene; Kiran, Seghal; Markiewicz, Lidia; Meisner, Annelein; Olivares, Marta; Sarand, Inga; Schelkle, Bettina; Selvin, Joseph; Smidt, Hauke; Van Overbeek, Leo; Berg, Gabriele; Cocolin, Luca; Sanz, Yolanda; Fernandes, Jr. Wilson Lemos; Liu, S.J.; Ryan, Matthew; Singh, Brajesh; Kostic, Tanja (American Society for Microbiology, 2023-09)
    Microbiomes have highly important roles for ecosystem functioning and carry out key functions that support planetary health, including nutrient cycling, climate regulation, and water filtration. Microbiomes are also ...