In today's society where soft skills are imperative for job success the use of performance data provided by standardised tests to sort students to various careers is a major concern. The study examined the relationship ...

Forest plantations in the UK are often established on seasonally waterlogged peaty gley soils which often require site preparation (drainage and mounding) to lower the water table and prepare planting positions. Substantial ...

Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is a versatile crop used for edible oil, vegetable, cut flower production, colouring foods, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, livestock feed, biofuels, textile, and medicinal purposes. Soil ...

There is now a growing realization by government and other role players in Botswana of the importance of indigenous plants as alternative food crops to enhance food security and biodiversity. Experimental research was ...

In order to study the phosphorus sorption characteristics of six soils from Botswana, 2g of soil were equilibrated at 20°C in 0.01M CaCl2 containing various amounts of dissolved phosphate (0-900 pg P/g soil for two days). ...

This thesis examines the interaction between woody plants, elephants and other browsers in a semi-arid savanna in northern Botswana, southern Africa. Particularly I studied how woody plants respond to herbivory, how browsers ...

Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is amongst the neglected and underutilized oilseed crop that is adaptable to environmental conditions present in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs). It has many uses like foods, textile, ...

Bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria Molina Stand1.) landraces are usually grown in Botswana under subsistence farming. Morphological characterization of the landraces is important to identify promising landraces for breeding, ...

Greenhouse and Held experiments were conducted during the 2009 and 2010 growing seasons at Botswana College of Agriculture to evaluate the effect of different levels of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) ...

This thesis describes a series of four experiments designed to evaluate the role of the supply of protein in livestock grazing high quality pasture during mating and during pregnancy. The first two studies investigated the ...