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Assessment of South African bread wheat cultivars for milling quality
(University of the Free State, 2003)
English: The objectives of this research were to assess South African winter and facultative bread wheat
cultivars for milling quality, to study the effect of genotype x environment interaction on the
stability of the ...
Assessment of adult plant resistance to stripe rust in wheat
(University of the Free State, 2004-05)
English: The objective of this study was to develop and optimise methods to detect
adult-plant resistance (APR) in wheat to stripe rust caused by Puccinia striiformis
f.sp. tritici. A collection of spring wheats was ...
Vegetation ecology of Soetdoring Nature Reserve: pan, grassland and karroid communities
(University of the Free State, 2002-09)
English: The main aim of this study was to identify, classify, describe and ecologically interpret the plant communities and their variations for the pans, grassland and karroid grassland of Soetdoring Nature Reserve and ...
A phylogenetic study of the South African representatives of the tribe Andropogoneae (Poaceae)
(University of the Free State, 2003-11)
English: The tribe Andropogoneae makes up half of the grass subfamily Panicoideae, with
approximately 85 genera and 960 species (Hartley 1958, Clayton and Renvoize 1986).
The genera of the tribe are typically tropical ...
Studies on chemical control of wheat stem rust
(University of the Free State, 2007-11)
English: Stem rust caused by Puccinia graminis Pers.:Pers. f. sp. tritici Eriks. & E. Henn., is an economically important disease of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) worldwide. The disease has often reached epidemic ...
Water quality of the Modder River
(University of the Free State, 1998-11)
English: The Modder River is a relatively small river which drains an area of 7 960 km² , in the central region of the Free State Province, South Africa and has a mean annual runoff of 184 x 10⁶ m³ . Botshabelo is a city ...