Professor

Office:  3-05 Agriculture Building

Tel: 12-420-2486

Fax: 12-362-5302

E-mail: za [at] up.ac.za

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Tea Research Laboratory

 

Teaching Responsibilities

BCM 262 - Biochemistry in Perspective that contains Nutritional Biochemistry and Xeno-biochemistry
BCM357 - Biocatalysis&Integration of Metabolism
Post-graduate - Scientific communication, Statistics, Chromatography and Metabolomics

Recent and highly cited publications

Nyarukowa, C., Koech, R., Loots, T. and Apostolides, Z., 2016. SWAPDT: A method for Short-time Withering Assessment of Probability for Drought Tolerance in Camellia sinensis validated by targeted metabolomics.Journal of Plant Physiology.

Pereira, A., Bester, M., Soundy, P. and Apostolides, Z., 2016. Anti-proliferative properties of commercial Pelargonium sidoides tincture, with cell-cycle G0/G1 arrest and apoptosis in Jurkat leukaemia cells.Pharmaceutical Biology, pp.1-10.

Pereira, A., Bester, M., Soundy, P. and Apostolides, Z., 2015. Activity-guided isolation and identification of the major antioxidant and anticancer compounds from a commercial Pelargonium sidoides tincture. Medicinal Chemistry Research, 24(11), pp.3838-3852.

Van Breda, S.V., Buys, A., Apostolides, Z., Nardell, E.A. and Stoltz, A.C., 2015. The antimicrobial effect of colistin methanesulfonate on Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro. Tuberculosis, 95(4), pp.440-446.

Esther, E., Smit, S., Beukes, M., Apostolides, Z., Pirk, C.W. and Nicolson, S.W., 2015. Detoxification mechanisms of honey bees (Apis mellifera) resulting in tolerance of dietary nicotine. Scientific reports, 5.

Archer, C.R., Köhler, A., Pirk, C.W., Oosthuizen, V., Apostolides, Z. and Nicolson, S.W., 2014. Antioxidant supplementation can reduce the survival costs of excess amino acid intake in honeybees. Journal of insect physiology, 71, pp.78-86.

Muhl, Q.E., du Toit, E.S., Steyn, J.M. and Apostolides, Z., 2014. Bud development, flowering and fruit set of Moringa oleifera Lam.(Horseradish Tree) as affected by various irrigation levels. Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics (JARTS), 114(2), pp.79-87.

Mphangwe, N.I., Vorster, J., Steyn, J.M., Nyirenda, H.E., Taylor, N.J. and Apostolides, Z., 2013. Screening of tea (Camellia sinensis) for trait-associated molecular markers. Applied biochemistry and biotechnology,171(2), pp.437-449.

Chen, L., Apostolides, Z. and Chen, Z.M. eds., 2013. Global tea breeding: achievements, challenges and perspectives. Springer Science & Business Media.

van Breda, S.V., van der Merwe, C.F., Robbertse, H. and Apostolides, Z., 2013. Immunohistochemical localization of caffeine in young Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze (tea) leaves. Planta, 237(3), pp.849-858.

Owuor, P.O., Obanda, M., Nyirenda, H.E., Mphangwe, N.I., Wright, L.P. and Apostolides, Z., 2006. The relationship between some chemical parameters and sensory evaluations for plain black tea (Camellia sinensis) produced in Kenya and comparison with similar teas from Malawi and South Africa. Food chemistry, 97(4), pp.644-653.

Wright, L.P., Mphangwe, N.I.K., Nyirenda, H.E. and Apostolides, Z., 2002. Analysis of the theaflavin composition in black tea (Camellia sinensis) for predicting the quality of tea produced in Central and Southern Africa.Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 82(5), pp.517-525.

du Toit, R., Volsteedt, Y. and Apostolides, Z., 2001. Comparison of the antioxidant content of fruits, vegetables and teas measured as vitamin C equivalents. Toxicology, 166(1), pp.63-69.

Aucamp, J.P., Hara, Y. and Apostolides, Z., 2000. Simultaneous analysis of tea catechins, caffeine, gallic acid, theanine and ascorbic acid by micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography. Journal of Chromatography A, 876(1), pp.235-242.