A5067713978- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies
- Fungal Infections and Studies
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
- Fermentation and Sensory Analysis
- Fungal and yeast genetics research
- Food composition and properties
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Botanical Research and Chemistry
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
- Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
- Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens
- Plant and fungal interactions
- Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Protection
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Biomedical and Engineering Education
- Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food
- Enzyme Production and Characterization
University of the Witwatersrand
1979-2025
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2021
Stellenbosch University
2006-2017
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
1979
South African Institute for Medical Research
1979
The Southern Ground Hornbill (SGH – Bucorvus leadbeateri) is one of the largest hornbill species worldwide, known for its complex social structures and breeding behaviours. This bird has been great interest due to declining population disappearance from historic ranges in southern Africa. Despite being focus numerous conservation efforts, with research forming an integral part these initiatives, there still a substantial lack knowledge regarding molecular biology aspects this species. In...
Abstract Barley ( Hordeum vulgare ) is essential to global food systems and the brewing industry. Its physiological traits microbial communities determine malt quality. Although microbes influence barley from seed health fermentation, there a gap in metagenomic insights during storage. Crucially, elucidating changes composition associated with seeds imperative for understanding how these fluctuations can impact ultimately, both agricultural yield quality of barley-derived products. Whole...
Cryptococcus gattii and its medical implications have been extensively studied. There is, however, a significant knowledge gap regarding cryptococcal survival in environmental niche, namely woody material, which is glaring given that infection linked to populations. A gene from C. (WM276), the predominant global molecular type (VGI), has sequenced annotated as putative cellulase. It therefore, of both industrial intertest delineate structure function this enzyme. homology model enzyme was...
Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) contribute to instability of the host genome and plasmids. Previously, removal prophages in industrial amino acid producer Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13 032 resulted strain MB001 which showed better survival under stress conditions increased transformability. Still, eight families Insertion Sequence (IS) with 27 potentially active members remain MB001, two were demonstrated be detrimental biotechnological processes. In this study, systematical deletion all...
A case of centronuclear myopathy adult onset with striking hypertrophy lower limb muscles in a black South African man is described details the light microscopic, histochemical, and ultrastructural features. The association hypertrophied has not to our knowledge been reported previously it felt that this may be variant condition.
A 3-year-7-month-old girl without any known comorbidities was brought to the paediatric emergency department of Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital (RMMCH) in Johannesburg, South Africa, with lethargy mild dehydration from acute gastroenteritis.On further history, it found that her mother had boiled eaten wild mushrooms obtained a Johannesburg garden 40 hours prior.They experienced gastrointestinal symptoms (nausea, vomiting, colicky abdominal pain diarrhea) within 6-10 subsequently...