A heavy-metal resistant bacterium (GM 16) was isolated from a South African antimony mine, and the non-viable cells of the isolate were used to investigate its biosorption capacity for Cd(II) and Cu(II) from aqueous solution ...
Canola (Brassica napus) is an important oil crop which is not well grown in Limpopo Province. Planting date is identified as a critical management decision in canola production for enhanced biological and economic returns ...
Among the fungal diseases infecting tomato crop, early blight caused by Alternaria solani (Ellis & G. Martin) is one of the most destructive fungal foliar diseases. The aim of this current study was to document the prevailing ...
The study was conducted to determine the macroscopic and microscopic raw semen characteristics of Bapedi rams, to evaluate the effect of different egg yolk (EY) concentrations in Tris-based extenders on cryopreservation ...
Mimusops zeyheri tree groves made up of seventeen trees collected from communities
in Southern Africa were used in this study. The trees had high morphological variations
in terms of growth rate, fruit (size and taste) ...
Many conventional laboratory methods are used to characterise spatial and temporal variation of soil properties in order to understand soil quality for different purposes. Currently there is a high demand for accurate soil ...
Marula wine plays a fundamental role in the livelihoods of rural communities where it enhances social cohesion and also provides a reasonable income to the primary traders who often have no alternative source of income. ...
The Two Rivers Platinum Mine (TRP) located in the Eastern Bushveld Igneous
Complex is currently exploiting platinum-group elements (PGE) in the Upper Group
2 chromitite (UG2) Reef at the Dwarsrivier Farm. TRP has ...
Mogotlane, Emmanuel Alpheus(University of Limpopo, 2015)
The aim of this study was to investigate the chemical composition of indigenous watermelon landraces (Citrullus lanatus) seeds grown in two districts in the Limpopo Province. Watermelon seeds are the most undermined oilseeds. ...
Bush tea (Athrixia phylicoides DC.) has received interest as another indigenous
South African herbal tea with potential for commercialization. The success of
commercialization of bush tea hinges on maintenance or enhancement ...
Molepo, Julitha(University of Limpopo (Medunsa Campus), 2010)
Background: Azoles and polyenes are antifungal agents used for treatment and/or
prophylaxis of C. albicans infections, and a high increase in antifungal resistance in clinical
isolates of C. albicans in HIV/AIDS patients ...
Livestock production in communal areas is faced by a myriad of challenges such as environmental degradation, poor markets, stock theft and disease. This has drawn interest towards wildlife-based land-use practices as an ...
Our discussion starts with the study of convergence and clustering of filters initiated in
pointfree setting by Hong, and then characterize compact and almost compact frames
in terms of these filters. We consider the ...
The present study is a comparative analysis of social work fieldwork supervision at the University of Venda (UNIVEN) and the University of Limpopo (UL) and has produced a list of implications for policy and practice ...
Various types of management practices/institutional arrangements of the irrigation
schemes exist in the world. According to the principles delineated in literatures, these
irrigation schemes are categorized in terms ...
Beef and chicken meat play a very crucial role in providing food to South African consumers. However, the rise of food prices in South Africa is viewed to curtail progress and drives consumers into debt and forgone opportunity ...
South Africa's water resources are limited and scarce in global terms, due to the fact that the country's climate varies from desert to semi-desert in the west to sub-humid along the coastal area. The country is also ...
Mothapo, Mmaphefo Patricia(University of Limpopo, 2016)
In this study, antioxidant activity methodologies were evaluated in terms of analytical performances. The total antioxidant activity from Athrixia phylicoides leaves (Bush tea) determined using 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl ...