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School of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Plant Production and Soil Science
  
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Sustainable plant production

Sustainable production of crops for food, fibre, oil and pastures, as well as fruit and ornamental plants, with the view to optimize the plant x environment interaction by means of plant nutrition, irrigation, weed management, growth manipulation, etc.

Postgraduate students' research projects completed in 2001 (titles of dissertations and theses)

Dissertations

Bezuidenhout SR: Allelopathic effects of yellow nutsedge in young Patula pine plantations (Prof CF Reinhardt)

Botha CC: Alley cropping with Leucaena leucocephala (Prof NFG Rethman)

Cronje JI: Sesbania en moerbei as voerbome (Prof NFG Rethman)

De Villiers AJ: Seasonal growth pattern and water relations of mango trees in response to various irrigation regimes (Dr EW Pavel)

Honiball C: Plant morphology and flower induction of Clivia miniata Regal (Prof PJ Robbertse)

Mashego DC: The production of vegetable crop under protection for small-scale farming situation (Prof PS Hammes)

Ndou AM: Optimization of bulblet production by leaf cuttings in Lachenalia (Prof PJ Robbertse)

Stander EIM: Bacterial wilt (Prof PS Hammes)

Theses

Du Toit ES: Temperature effects on carbohydrate assimilation and subsequent flower differentiation on pot plant quality of Lachenalia (Prof PJ Robbertse)

Mphinyane WN: Influence of livestock grazing under free range and controlled conditions, in Botswana (Prof NFG Rethman)

Nel AA: Faktore wat die kwaliteit van sonneblom-oliekoek bepaal (Prof PS Hammes)