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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Plant Science

Postgraduate Student Research Projects 2008

Dissertations/Theses: [10]

Goodwin DE: An exploration of factors facilitating and hindering change in the teaching of botany in primary schools (Prof JM Rogan)

Kiggundu A: Engineering plant cysteine protease inhibitors for the transgenic control of banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar) (Coleoptera : Curculionidae) and other coleopteran insects in transgenic plants (Prof KJ Kunert)

Naidoo S: Microarray expression studies in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana infected with the bacterial pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum (Prof DK Berger)

Prins A: Proteases and protease inhibitors involved in plant stress response and acclimation (Prof KJ Kunert)

Tshikalange TE: In vitro anti-HIV-1 properties of ethnobotanically selected South African plants used in the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (Prof JJM Meyer)

Vorster BJ: Using whole genome comparison to detect sequence similarities between plants and microbes (Prof KJ Kunert)

Bapela MJ: Variation of active constituents in Euclea natalensis based on seedling stages, seasons, and fertilizers (Prof N Lall, Prof ES du Toit)

Endah R: Isolation and characterization of two NPR1 genes in banana (Prof KJ Kunert)

Fotouo Makouate H: Dispersal strategies in communal versus privately-owned rangeland in Namaqualand, South Africa (Prof MW van Rooyen)

Van Niekerk CE: The vegetation and land use of a South African township in Hammanskraal, Gauteng (Prof GJ Bredenkamp)

 

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