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    Domestication of Artemisia Afra (African Wormwood) and Ropagation by Leafy Stem Cuttings
    (University of Fort Hare, 2002-02) Ketelo, Charles Nceba
    Artemisia afra (African wormwood) is used traditionally as medicinal plant to cure fever, coughs, colds and headache by indigenous people. The objectives of this study were two-fold. Firstly, to determine how local rural people feel about the domestication of Mhlonyane for the extraction of essential oil. This was done by means of a questionnaire survey, where 80 respondents were selected at random at Melani village in the Nkonkobe District of the Eastern Cape. Secondly, preliminary trials were conducted at the University of Fort Hare on the vegetative propagation of Artemisia afra using leafy stem cuttings rooted under an intermittent mist spray using different lndolebutyric acid (IBA) treatments and different rooting media. Also, tested were the growth retardant paclobutrazol (PBZ) and some fertilizer treatments for growing on the rooted cuttings in pots.
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    The Effect of Introduction of African Wormwood (Artemisia Afra) on the Ridzosphere of Agricultural Lands
    (University of Fort Hare, 1995-12-20) Hensen-Quartey, James Alfred
    The. herbaceous aromatic plant locally known as "mhlonyane" (Artemisia afra) is indigenous to the Eastern Cape region of South Africa. Owing to the importance that this plant has always had in local traditional medicine and, more recently, the discovery that it is the source of a · . valuable oil, there has been great interest in its introduction as a commercial "crop". It has thus been produced successfully over the last decade on an experimental basis. Since the plant is indigenous to the area, it can be produced on normal arable land with little management input. Financial returns from even a poor crop of the plant can be more than 50-fold the return from the more conventional crops such as maize or sorghum.