| Elimination of virus and rapid propagation of disease-free sugarcane (Saccharum spp. cultivar NCo376) using apical meristem culture S Ramgareeb, SJ Snyman, T Van Antwerpen, RS Rutherford Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC) 100, 175-181, 2010 | 117 | 2010 |
| Towards a rapid near-infrared technique for prediction of resistance to sugarcane borerEldana saccharina walker (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) using stalk surface wax RS Rutherford, J Van Staden Journal of Chemical Ecology 22, 681-694, 1996 | 73 | 1996 |
| An in vitro mutagenesis protocol for the production of sugarcane tolerant to the herbicide imazapyr AC Koch, S Ramgareeb, RS Rutherford, SJ Snyman, MP Watt In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology-Plant 48, 417-427, 2012 | 68 | 2012 |
| In vitro generation of somaclonal variant plants of sugarcane for tolerance to Fusarium sacchari T Mahlanza, RS Rutherford, SJ Snyman, MP Watt Plant cell reports 32, 249-262, 2013 | 56 | 2013 |
| Conventional and New Biological and Habitat Interventions for Integrated Pest Management Systems: Review and Case Studies using Eldana saccharina Walker … DE Conlong, RS Rutherford Integrated Pest Management: Innovation-Development Process: Volume 1, 241-261, 2009 | 56 | 2009 |
| Resistance mechanisms of South African sugarcane to the stalk borer Eldana saccharina (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae): A review MG Keeping, RS Rutherford Proc S Afr Sug Technol Ass 78, 307-312, 2004 | 52 | 2004 |
| cDNA-AFLP differential display of sugarcane (Saccharum spp, hybrids) genes induced by challenge with the fungal pathogen Ustilago scitaminea (sugarcane smut) LN Thokoane, RS Rutherford Proc S Afr Sug Technol Ass 75 (m), 104-107, 2001 | 48 | 2001 |
| The smut-sugarcane interaction as a model system for the integration of marker discovery and gene isolation BS Heinze, LN Thokoane, NJ Williams, JM Barnes, RS Rutherford Proc S Afr Sug Technol Ass 75, 88-93, 2001 | 48 | 2001 |
| Resistance to Eldana saccharina (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in sugarcane and some phytochemical correlations RS Rutherford, JH Meyer, GS Smith, J Van Staden Proceedings of the South African Sugar Technologists’ Association 67, 82-87, 1993 | 47 | 1993 |
| Interactions between Fusarium species from sugarcane and the stalk borer, Eldana saccharina (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) SA McFarlane, P Govender, RS Rutherford Annals of applied biology 155 (3), 349-359, 2009 | 46 | 2009 |
| Application of gene discovery to varietal improvement in sugarcane MK Butterfield, RS Rutherford, DL Carson, BI Huckett, CH Bornman South African Journal of Botany 70 (1), 167-172, 2004 | 45 | 2004 |
| Fusarium species causing pokkah boeng and their effect on Eldana saccharina Walker (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). P Govender, SA McFarlane, RS Rutherford | 43 | 2010 |
| Fulmekiola serrata (Kobus)(Thysanoptera: Thripidae), a new pest in southern African sugarcane MJ Way, M Stiller, GW Leslie, DE Conlong, MG Keeping, RS Rutherford African Entomology 14 (2), 401-403, 2006 | 35 | 2006 |
| Bt‐maize as a potential trap crop for management of Eldana saccharina Walker (Lep., Pyralidae) in sugarcane MG Keeping, RS Rutherford, DE Conlong Journal of Applied Entomology 131 (4), 241-250, 2007 | 34 | 2007 |
| Beauveria Brongniartii on White Grubs Attacking Sugarcane In South Africa TA Goble, L Costet, I Robene, S Nibouche, RS Rutherford, DE Conlong, ... Journal of invertebrate pathology, 2012 | 31 | 2012 |
| Fusarium species isolated from sugarcane in KwaZulu-Natal and their effect on Eldana saccharina (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) development in vitro. SA McFarlane, RS Rutherford Proceedings of the 79th Annual Congress of South African Sugar Technologists …, 2005 | 31 | 2005 |
| An Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach for the control of the stalk borer Eldana saccharina Walker (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) RS Rutherford The South African Sugarcane Research Institute, 2015 | 30 | 2015 |
| Liming an acid soil treated with diverse silicon sources: Effects on silicon uptake by sugarcane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) MG Keeping, N Miles, RS Rutherford Journal of plant nutrition 40 (10), 1417-1436, 2017 | 29 | 2017 |
| Micropropagation by direct somatic embryogenesis: is disease elimination also a possibility? SJ Snyman, T Antwerpen, V Ramdeen, GM Meyer, JM Richards, ... XXVI Congress, International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists, ICC …, 2007 | 28 | 2007 |
| South African Sugarcane Research Institute: embracing biotechnology for crop improvement research SJ Snyman, C Baker, BI Huckett, SA McFarlane, T Van Antwerpen, ... Sugar Tech 10, 1-13, 2008 | 27 | 2008 |
M P WattProfessor, University of KwaZulu NatalVerified email at ukzn.ac.za
