Shuaifei Chen is the first Ph. D student under CFEPP. His research focuses on fungal disease of eucalypts from South China both in nurseries and plantations.

Fig. 1. One World-One Dream, Keeping Trees Healthy.

Fig. 2. Eucalypt diseases survey (Dec., 2006). Left to right: ShuaiFei Chen, XuDong Zhou, Michael J. Wingfield, JiaGuang Cao.

Fig. 3. Cryphonectriaceae survey (Jan., 2007). Left to right: XuDong Zhou and ShuaiFei Chen.

Fig. 4. Eucalypt diseases survey (Sept., 2008). Left to right: Jolanda Roux, ShuaiFei Chen, XinTao Mu, GuiXiang Zhao.

Fig. 5. TPCP disease clinic team (2008). Left to right: ShuaiFei Chen, Donald Chungu, Guillermo Perez, Didier Begoude.

Fig. 6. TPCP disease clinic team (2009). Left to right: Michael Mbenoun, Darryl Herron, Johan Van der Linde, ShuaiFei Chen, Bernice Porter.

Fig. 7. Field inoculation trials (Sep, 2008). Left to right: ChunYan Xie, XinTao Mu, ShuaiFei Chen, GuiXiang Zhao.

Fig. 8. Eucalypt diseases survey (Oct, 2008).

Fig. 9. Young researchers in CERC (Sep, 2008). Left to right: XiuHua Shang, ShiChao Zhang, Ying Jiang, Qiu Liu, HuaLin Zhang, ChunYan Xie, WanHong Lu, GuiXiang Zhao, FeiYang Han,ShiQi Ren, XinTao Mu, ShuaiFei Chen.

Fig. 10. My supervisors and mentors. Left to right: (back row): XuDong Zhou (primary supervisor), Marieka Gryzenhout, Jolanda Roux (co-supervisor), Marelize Van Wyk, DraginjaPavlic, Lorenzo Lombard, Irene Barnes and Donald Chungu;
(front row): YaoJian Xie (co-supervisor), ShuaiFei Chen, and Michael J. Wingfield (co-supervisor).

New Publications

Chepsergon J, Moleleki LN. (2023) “Order from disordered”: Potential role of intrinsically disordered regions in phytopathogenic oomycete intracellular effector proteins. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 75:102402. 10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102402
Macharia TN, Duong TA, Moleleki LN. (2023) n silico secretome analyses of the polyphagous root-knot nematode Meloidogyne javanica: a resource for studying M. javanica secreted proteins. BMC Genomics 24:296. 10.1186/s12864-023-09366-6
Chepsergon J, Lucy N Moleleki. (2023) Rhizosphere bacterial interactions and impact on plant health. Current Opinion in Microbiology 73:102297. 10.1016/j.mib.2023.102297
Jane Chepsergon, Celiwe Nxumalo, Brenda Salasini, Aquillah Kanzi, Lucy Moleleki. (2022) Short Linear Motifs (SLiMs) in “Core” RxLR effectors of Phytophthora parasitica var. nicotianae: A case of PpRxLR1 effector. Microbiology Spectrum 10(2) 10.1128/spectrum.01774-21
Maphosa S and Moleleki LN. (2021) Isolation and Characterization of Outer Membrane Vesicles of Pectobacterium brasiliense 1692. Microorganisms 9:1-20. 10.3390/ microorganisms9091918