Ticks and tick borne diseases remain a huge threat to livestock productivity the world over. While several efforts have been made to control ticks, current control measures are still not adequate. Conventionally, tick ...

The Plant Breeder’s Right (PBR), also known as Plant Variety Protection (PVP), is a form of intellectual property afforded to breeders of newly bred plant varieties. In South Africa, intellectual protection of new plant ...

Diarrhoea is one of the killer diseases resulting from the dehydration and loss of electrolytes through profuse and excessive excretion of loose stool. The pathoaetiologies include infections, intestinal inflammation, ...

The main aim of the study was to isolate compounds active against Candida albicans from the most active species from a pool of several trees. Seven tree species with good antifungal activity were selected from the Phytomedicine ...

Soilborne pathogens are economically important, causing great losses in agricultural production globally. Nematodes, fungi, bacteria and viruses are microscopic, destructive pathogens which are extremely difficult to ...

Coal mining and coal utilization in Mpumalanga have increased over the years due to national reliance on coal as a source of power generation. In general, this has caused significant deterioration of water quality wherever ...

The possibility of moderating the response of cells to a particular mutagen by phytomedicines opens new horizons in cancer prevention. On this basis, the search for antimutagens presents many possibilities for the discovery ...

Microbial infections are a major threat to public health particularly in developing countries due to the relative unavailability of medicine and the emergence of widespread drug resistance. Serious invasive fungal infections ...

Diseases caused by bacteria, fungi and viruses pose a significant threat especially to poor rural communities. Viral infections are frequently complicated by secondary bacterial and fungal infections which remain a major ...

Due to consumer resistance to the use of synthetic chemicals in agriculture, the aim of this research was to develop an antifungal extract from the leaves of Melianthus comosus that could be marketed as an organic fungicide ...