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Browsing Genetics by Supervisor "Slippers, Bernard"
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Lepidoptera is the second largest insect order, following Coleoptera, with approximately 180_000 species of moths and butterflies described to date. The destructive larval stage, along with their abundance and distribution, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-12-14)Endophytes are organisms that inhabit plant organs and colonise plant tissues without causing obvious signs of disease. Much research has been done to elucidate the effects that endophytes have on their hosts, but the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-12-14)Endophytic fungi of most woody trees are poorly studied due to their cryptic existence, the complexity of the community and the poor ability of traditional tools to characterize them. This study characterised the endophytic ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Forests are complex ecosystems that provide a variety of valuable products, such as timber, fuel wood, fiber and non-wood forest products and they also contribute to socio economic development. Pest problems have a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010)Sirex noctilio is a major pest to Pinus spp. and threat to the Forestry industry in the Southern Hemisphere. The varying level of efficacy of its primary biological control agent, Deladenus siricidicola, is also of serious ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Interactions among living organisms fall along the mutualism-parasitism continuum; where mutualistic interactions benefit one or both organisms and parasitic interactions harm them. Mutualisms are a particularly interesting ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)Access to this dissertation is restricted until 2015-04-12
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)Eucalyptus species constitute some of the most widely grown and economically important hardwood trees in global plantation forestry. This is due primarily to their remarkable growth and adaptability. Much of the initial ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-05-24)This study has significantly broadened and deepened the understanding of ecological aspects related to the spread and reproduction of Diplodia pinea as an endophyte, latent pathogen and causal agent of serious disease ...
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