Allanblackia, a dioecious fruit tree native to sub-Saharan Africa, is the subject of increased international interest for oil production for the global food market. Until recently, however, Allanblackia has been an overlooked ...

Prunus ojricana - an evergreen tree found in Afromontane forests - is used in traditional medicine to cure benign prostate hyperplasia. Different bioactive constituents derived from bark extracts from 20 tree populations ...

Molecular genetic studies on the African trypanosome have in the past fused on only a few genes or gene products consequently a significant number of genes of this organism remain unknown. We are sequencing random directional ...

†Background and Aims Afromontane forest ecosystems share a high similarity of plant and animal biodiversity, although they occur mainly on isolated mountain massifs throughout the continent. This resemblance has long provoked ...

Indigenous fruit trees are widely used by humans in southern Africa. Little information is however available on regional genetic variation in these species, knowledge essential for their proper use and conservation. Here, ...

Listed as vulnerable under Appendix II of CITES, populations of the commercially valuable African highland medicinal tree Prunus africana are threatened by over-exploitation in a number of countries. Here, random amplified ...

Scattered populations of the same tree species in montane forests through Africa have led to speculations on the origins of distributions. Here, we inferred the colonization history of the Afromontane tree Prunus africana ...

Using databases of previously published primers, we optimised six nuclear microsatellite markers for Prunus africana for the purposes of studying spatial genetic structure and gene flow. To assess variability, these and ...