Wheat is an important staple food produced, consumed and traded globally. South Africa is now experiencing climate change, the emergence of biotypes and pathotypes, increasing human population, as well as a decrease in ...

The presence of pathogenic bacteria and antibiotics residue in milk is of public health concern. Traditional and established tests of mastitis diagnosis including microbial culture-based and somatic cell counts (SCC) ...

The current research work was conducted to understand the dynamics of nutrients from the organic-inorganic (algae, agri-mat, grass and lime ammonium nitrate) amendments into soil through mineralization, their movement ...

As one of the renowned anomalies in modern investment theory, the low idiosyncratic volatility anomaly may be the most bewildering and captivating of them all. The anomaly defies the traditional asset pricing theories of ...

Fluorescence polarization assay (FPA), a serological assay, was validated as an alternative test for the rapid and cost-effective diagnosis of bovine brucellosis, with the aim of improving the control of brucellosis in ...

Worldwide, millets are regarded as significant grains; however, they are the least exploited. Millet grain is abundant in nutrients and health-beneficial phenolic compounds, making it suitable as food and feed. The diverse ...

Abstract Regional mechanics of the heart is vital in the development of accurate computational models for the pursuit of relevant therapies. Challenges related to heart dysfunctioning are the most important ...

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) is the etiological agent for the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID‐19). The COVID‐19 pandemic has created unimaginable and unprecedented global health crisis. ...

Mycobacterium bovis is the causative agent of bovine tuberculosis (BTB) which has a diverse host range. The maintenance host of BTB in South Africa is the African buffalo (Syncerus caffer). It is believed that lions ...

Predatory Ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and Lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) are two of the most diverse groups found in wheat agroecosystems, globally. These groups are important from both an economic and ...