{"id":865,"date":"2021-10-01T08:34:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T06:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogsdev.sun.ac.za\/eucxylo\/?p=865"},"modified":"2021-10-01T08:34:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T06:34:06","slug":"well-under-way-for-experiments-and-exciting-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/eucxylo\/2021\/10\/01\/well-under-way-for-experiments-and-exciting-data\/","title":{"rendered":"[:en]Well under way for experiments and exciting data![:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:en]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><em>Post authored by <a href=\"https:\/\/blogsdev.sun.ac.za\/eucxylo\/the-team\/#yenziwe-mbuyisa\">Yenziwe Mbuyisa<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogsdev.sun.ac.za\/eucxylo\/the-team\/#yenziwe-mbuyisa\">Yenziwe Mbuyisa<\/a>, a M.Sc. candidate, is looking at the water-use efficiency of different <em>Eucalyptus<\/em> clones using stable isotopes. This project is a collaborative effort between <span style=\"color: #ff9900\">EucXylo<\/span> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalchangebiologygroup.weebly.com\/\">Global Change Biology Group (GCBG)<\/a> under the supervision of Prof. Guy Midgley and Prof. Dave Drew.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The year has gone by so fast, but we have made good progress into preparing for our investigation of \u2018The effects of temperature on the water-use efficiency and C isotopic discrimination of <em>Eucalyptus grandis<\/em> and <em>Syzyguim guineense<\/em>\u2019. Now finally with the completion of an insightful pilot study, which aimed to assess the feasibility of the experimental design of this M.Sc. project, I have begun setting up for my experiment. Over the past couple of weeks, I have been preparing my planting medium and transplanting my <em>E. grandis<\/em> and <em>S. guineense<\/em> seedlings into their growth mediums. I have also done the first set of initial measurements; they will be ready soon to undergo their first temperature treatment.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-867\" src=\"http:\/\/blogsdev.sun.ac.za\/eucxylo\/files\/2021\/10\/Picture11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"453\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-868\" src=\"http:\/\/blogsdev.sun.ac.za\/eucxylo\/files\/2021\/10\/Picture-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Looking forward to start understanding how these two Myrtacae species will respond to predicted temperature variability and varying water availability.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:en] Post authored by Yenziwe Mbuyisa Yenziwe Mbuyisa, a M.Sc. candidate, is looking at the water-use efficiency of different Eucalyptus clones using stable isotopes. This project is a collaborative effort between EucXylo and the Global Change Biology Group (GCBG) under the supervision of Prof&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10084,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/eucxylo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/eucxylo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/eucxylo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/eucxylo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10084"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/eucxylo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/eucxylo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/eucxylo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/eucxylo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/eucxylo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}