Nokwanda P. Makunga

3.1k total citations
84 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Nokwanda P. Makunga is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nokwanda P. Makunga has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Plant Science, 41 papers in Molecular Biology and 17 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Nokwanda P. Makunga's work include Plant tissue culture and regeneration (19 papers), Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies (15 papers) and Transgenic Plants and Applications (13 papers). Nokwanda P. Makunga is often cited by papers focused on Plant tissue culture and regeneration (19 papers), Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies (15 papers) and Transgenic Plants and Applications (13 papers). Nokwanda P. Makunga collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, China and United States. Nokwanda P. Makunga's co-authors include Olaniyi Amos Fawole, Umezuruike Linus Opara, J. Van Staden, Alvaro Viljoen, Guy Kamatou, Rebogile R. Mphahlele, Maria A. Stander, Nqobile A. Masondo, Anna K. Jäger and Michael Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Annual Review of Plant Biology.

In The Last Decade

Nokwanda P. Makunga

79 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nokwanda P. Makunga South Africa	23	1.2k	744	617	476	410	84	2.3k
Angela Cardinali Italy	30	2.0k 1.7×	634 0.9×	722 1.2×	717 1.5×	666 1.6×	67	3.3k
Mamoudou H. Dicko Burkina Faso	22	1.2k 1.0×	398 0.5×	939 1.5×	431 0.9×	373 0.9×	126	2.4k
Marisa M. Wall United States	23	1.3k 1.1×	397 0.5×	461 0.7×	282 0.6×	357 0.9×	127	2.2k
Stephen O. Amoo South Africa	31	1.7k 1.4×	835 1.1×	737 1.2×	142 0.3×	277 0.7×	120	2.6k
Mahesh Gupta India	24	717 0.6×	720 1.0×	786 1.3×	561 1.2×	362 0.9×	138	2.3k
Silverio García‐Lara Mexico	30	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.5×	637 1.0×	405 0.9×	306 0.7×	101	2.5k
H Naghdi Badi Iran	22	1.2k 1.0×	634 0.9×	590 1.0×	143 0.3×	256 0.6×	138	2.0k
Corinna Dawid Germany	28	908 0.7×	766 1.0×	845 1.4×	513 1.1×	200 0.5×	113	2.5k
Musa Özcan Türkiye	31	1.6k 1.3×	439 0.6×	1.5k 2.5×	257 0.5×	626 1.5×	60	3.0k
Najla Trabelsi Tunisia	24	1.4k 1.2×	522 0.7×	1.2k 2.0×	179 0.4×	813 2.0×	54	2.5k

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Kleinert, Aleysia, et al.. (2025). The morphological, symbiotic and molecular physiological below-ground adaptations for nutrient scarce environments: A South African perspective. South African Journal of Botany. 184. 951–970.

Marx, Jean L., et al.. (2025). Reflecting on the interesting phytopharmacology of the cosmopolitan Dodonaea genus: past, present and future. Phytochemistry Reviews. 25(1). 461–488.

Balogun, Fatai Oladunni, et al.. (2023). Waste to Medicine: Evidence from Computational Studies on the Modulatory Role of Corn Silk on the Therapeutic Targets Implicated in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Biology. 12(12). 1509–1509. 6 indexed citations

Makunga, Nokwanda P., et al.. (2022). Antioxidant, Antimicrobial, and Metabolomic Characterization of Blanched Pomegranate Peel Extracts: Effect of Cultivar. Molecules. 27(9). 2979–2979. 21 indexed citations

Lukhoba, Catherine, et al.. (2022). A versatile untargeted metabolomics-driven technology for rapid phytochemical profiling of stem barks of Zanthoxylum species with antioxidant and antimicrobial activities. Advances in Traditional Medicine. 23(3). 929–945. 4 indexed citations

Makunga, Nokwanda P., et al.. (2021). Blanching Pre-Treatment Promotes High Yields, Bioactive Compounds, Antioxidants, Enzyme Inactivation and Antibacterial Activity of ‘Wonderful’ Pomegranate Peel Extracts at Three Different Harvest Maturities. Antioxidants. 10(7). 1119–1119. 40 indexed citations

Masondo, Nqobile A., et al.. (2021). Cannabis sativa: From Therapeutic Uses to Micropropagation and Beyond. Plants. 10(10). 2078–2078. 11 indexed citations

Stander, Maria A., et al.. (2021). Steviol glycoside content and essential oil profiles of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni in response to NaCl and polyethylene glycol as inducers of salinity and drought stress in vitro. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC). 145(1). 1–18. 18 indexed citations

Makunga, Nokwanda P., et al.. (2021). Effect of Solvent Extraction and Blanching Pre-Treatment on Phytochemical, Antioxidant Properties, Enzyme Inactivation and Antibacterial Activities of ‘Wonderful’ Pomegranate Peel Extracts. Processes. 9(6). 1012–1012. 20 indexed citations

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Lukhoba, Catherine, et al.. (2020). LC-MS-Based Metabolomics for the Chemosystematics of Kenyan Dodonaea viscosa Jacq (Sapindaceae) Populations. Molecules. 25(18). 4130–4130. 14 indexed citations

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Aremu, Adeyemi Oladapo, Olaniyi Amos Fawole, Nokwanda P. Makunga, et al.. (2020). Applications of Cytokinins in Horticultural Fruit Crops: Trends and Future Prospects. Biomolecules. 10(9). 1222–1222. 39 indexed citations

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Fawole, Olaniyi Amos, et al.. (2020). The Implication of Chemotypic Variation on the Anti-Oxidant and Anti-Cancer Activities of Sutherlandia frutescens (L.) R.Br. (Fabaceae) from Different Geographic Locations. Antioxidants. 9(2). 152–152. 16 indexed citations

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Lukhoba, Catherine, et al.. (2020). In Vitro Antimicrobial and Antiproliferative Activities of the Root Bark Extract and Isolated Chemical Constituents of Zanthoxylum paracanthum Kokwaro (Rutaceae). Plants. 9(7). 920–920. 40 indexed citations

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Makunga, Nokwanda P., et al.. (2020). Processing Factors Affecting the Phytochemical and Nutritional Properties of Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) Peel Waste: A Review. Molecules. 25(20). 4690–4690. 134 indexed citations

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Chen, Longsheng, et al.. (2019). Geographic-based metabolomic variation and toxicity analysis of Sutherlandia frutescens L. R.Br. – An emerging medicinal crop in South Africa. Industrial Crops and Products. 133. 414–423. 16 indexed citations

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Stander, Maria A., et al.. (2018). Effect of nitrogen and phosphate on in vitro growth and metabolite profiles of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni (Asteraceae). Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC). 134(1). 141–151. 16 indexed citations

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Chen, Longsheng, et al.. (2018). Comparative cardio and developmental toxicity induced by the popular medicinal extract of Sutherlandia frutescens (L.) R.Br. detected using a zebrafish Tuebingen embryo model. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 18(1). 273–273. 13 indexed citations

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Masondo, Nqobile A., G.I. Stafford, Adeyemi O. Aremu, & Nokwanda P. Makunga. (2018). Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors from southern African plants: An overview of ethnobotanical, pharmacological potential and phytochemical research including and beyond Alzheimer's disease treatment. South African Journal of Botany. 120. 39–64. 70 indexed citations

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Tohge, Takayuki, Rebecca De Clercq, Géraldine Brunoud, et al.. (2015). Overexpression of theArabidopsis thalianasignalling peptide TAXIMIN1 affects lateral organ development. Journal of Experimental Botany. 66(17). 5337–5349. 9 indexed citations

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Makunga, Nokwanda P., et al.. (2009). DNA AND ANTIMICROBIAL FINGERPRINTING OF MEDICINAL ALOE SPECIES FROM THE MASCARENE ISLANDS. African Journal of Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicines. 6. 463–464. 1 indexed citations

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