Position : Senior Lecturer
Telephone : 035 902 6060
Email : vanjaarsveldc@unizulu.ac.za
Office : Botany Department, KwaDlangezwa Campus
Biography:
Dr CM van Jaarsveld has been in the academic field for more than 20 years and lectured various modules in Botany, Soil Science, and Agronomy.
Lecture’s the following modules:
- 4BOT211 (Plant Growth and Development)
- 4BOT321 (Aquatic Botany and Lower Plant
- Taxonomy), 4BOT505 (General Botany)
Qualifications:
MSc (Plant Physiology) (NWU), PhD (Agronomy (UFS)
Research interests:
Currently, traditional leafy vegetables, with focus on their growth requirements and nitrogen nutrition in pineapples. Previously, soil rehabilitation of mined-out land and biological nitrogen fixation in soybeans.
- Professional membership:
- International Society for Horticultural Science
- South African Society of crop Science
Publications
- Buthelezi N.M., G.E. Zharare G.E. and Conlong D.E. (2021). A review of the biosystematics and bio-ecology of the groundnut / soya bean leaf miner species (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) Austral Entomology DOI: 10.1111/aen.12528
- Demissew Tesfaye Teshome, Godfrey Elijah Zharare and Sanushka Naidoo (2020)The Threat of the Combined Effect of Biotic and Abiotic Stress Factors in Forestry Under a Changing Climate
- Arindo Lukawu Akweni, Sifiso Sibanda, Godfrey Elijah Zharare, Clemence Zimudzi (2020). Fruit-based allometry of Strychnos madagascariensis and S. spinosa (Loganiaceae) in the savannah woodlands of the Umhlabuyalingana municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Oboh MO, Osunsanmi FO, Zharare GE, Mosa RA, Ojo MC, Opoku AR (2020). In vitro Antioxidant and Antidiabetic Potential of Crude Extracts from the Seed Coat and Fruit Pulp. Phcogj.com of Strychnos madagascariensis. Pharmacogn Journal. 12(6) Suppl:1504-11.
- Foluso Oluwagbemiga Osunsanmi Godfrey Elijah Zharare, Andy Rowland Opoku (2019), Phytochemical Constituents and Antioxidant Potential of Crude Extracts from Lippia Javanica (Burm.f.) Spreng Leaves. Pharmacogn J. 2019; 11(4):803-807.