Van Elst, Daan; Nuyens, Sarah; Van Wyk, Braam; Verstraete, Brecht; Dessein, Steven; Prinsen, Els(Elsevier, 2013-03)
Gousiekte, a cardiac syndrome of ruminants in southern Africa, is caused by the ingestion of plants containing the polyamine pavettamine. All the six known gousiekte-causing plants are members of the Rubiaceae or coffee ...
Lemaire, Benny; Robbrecht, Elmar; Van Wyk, Abraham Erasmus (Braam); Van Oevelen, Sandra; Verstraete, Brecht; Prinsen, Els; Smets, Erik; Dessein, Steven(Springer, 2011-12)
Bacterial leaf symbiosis is an intimate association between bacteria and plants in which endosymbionts are housed within leaf nodules. This phenomenon has been reported in three genera of Rubiaceae (Pavetta, Psychotria, ...
Van Elst, Daan; Van Wyk, Braam; Schultz, Anitra; Prinsen, Els(Elsevier, 2013-01)
Plant poisoning of livestock is responsible for considerable economic losses in southern Africa.
Six plant species of the Rubiaceae family are known to cause gousiekte, a cardiac syndrome of
ruminants induced by ingestion ...
