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On the hunt for the alternate host of Hemileia vastatrix. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2019 This hypothesis piece probes a 150‐year‐old question… “is there an alternate host of the fungal pathogen Hemileia vastatrix?” We use comprehensive geographical botanical data and automated text mining to narrow down the possibilities. Credit: Carvalho et al.
Koutouleas A +5 more
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A serious canker disease caused by Immersiporthe knoxdaviesiana gen. et sp. nov. (Cryphonectriaceae) on native Rapanea melanophloeos in South Africa [PDF]
Plant Pathology, 2012 Recent disease surveys in the Western Cape province of South Africa have revealed a previously unknown and serious stem canker disease on native Rapanea melanophloeos (Myrsinaceae, Ericales) trees. Cankers commonly result in the death of branches or entire stems.
Chen, ShuaiFei +3 more
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Medicinal Plants Traded in Informal Herbal Medicine Markets of the Limpopo Province, South Africa
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019., 2019 Trading of herbal medicines generates economic opportunities for vulnerable groups living in periurban, rural, and marginalized areas. This study was aimed at identifying medicinal plant species traded in the Limpopo province in South Africa, including traded plant parts, conservation statutes of the species, and harvesting methods used to collect the ...
Marula Triumph Rasethe +3 more
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Selected South African plants with tyrosinase enzyme inhibition and their effect on gene expression
South African Journal of Botany, 2019 Hyperpigmentation causes patches of skin to blemish and may lead to serious skin disorders. Prevention of hyperpigmentation would require suppressing the melanogenesis pathway which uses the rate limiting enzyme tyrosinase.
J. Stapelberg +4 more
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Austral Ecology, Volume 49, Issue 5, May 2024.Pollination systems of tall forest trees are poorly studied, resulting from the difficulties in observing pollinator activity at canopy level and great temporal variation in flower production. Here, we observed insect flower visitors, at canopy level, to four southern Afrotemperate forest tree species bearing small, white to green flowers in a large ...
Rudi Crispin Swart +3 more
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Invasion of an Afrotemperate forest complex by the polyphagous shot hole borer beetle
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Volume 172, Issue 4, Page 354-369, April 2024.Polyphagous shot hole borer, Euwallacea fornicatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae), is a serious invasive tree‐killing pest that has not been studied in natural forest systems. We determined the drivers of PSHB colonization in 1682 trees (68 species) in a native Afrotemperate forest.
G. Townsend +4 more
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The Journal of Phytopharmacology, 2018 There has been widespread resistance to anthelmintics by pathogenic helminths to an extent where there is multi-drug resistance against all major classes of conventional anthelmintics.
J. Muthee
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Phytotoxicity evaluation of six fast-growing tree species in South Africa
, 2014 Vachellia sieberiana , Albizia adianthifolia , Buddleja saligna , Combretum kraussii , Halleria lucida and Rapanea melanophloeos are fast-growing, indigenous tree species in South Africa.
T. Sunmonu, J. Staden
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, 2008 In Mediterranean climates, rainfall is restricted to periods of low evaporative demand, leaving plants to survive the summer drought. The purpose of this study was to determine the contribution of drought tolerance to the distribution of riparian species.
C. Swift, S. Jacobs, K. Esler
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, 2003 Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) was investigated as a potential tool with which medicinal bark products used in South African traditional healthcare may be authenticated.
O. Grace +4 more
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