In celebration of Mandela Day, a group of FABIans, along with some colleagues from PSC, BGM and Bioinformatics, gathered at the Innovation Africa @UP campus to clear invasive weeds from an important research environment.
Five FABIANS attended the XVI Southern African Society for Systematic Biology’s (SASSB) conference in Stellenbosch.
Several FABIans have participated in the production of a new open access Forest Entomology text book.
Dr JJ Acosta, Associate Director of CAMCORE and Associate Professor at North Carolina State University visited FABI to explore opportunities for future collaboration.
Two FABIans, Dr David Read and Dr Tanay Bose have each been awarded a Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship by the University of Pretoria.
A team from the TPCP, together with the Cropwatch Africa team, visited the southern Cape to test and implement protocols to survey young pine stands for pests and pathogens.
While on sabbatical, Prof. Dave Berger, visited long‑standing collaborators at the James Hutton Institute/University of Dundee.
The GRP Diagnostic Clinic attended three Farmers Days to promote the clinic and make smallholder farmers aware of the diagnostic services the clinic offers to grain farmers.
The GRP @FABI-UP's pest and disease extension and diagnostic clinic looks back on another successful year serving South African grain and oilseed producers.
Several members of the Macadamia Protection Programme attended the SAMAC research networking day.
Dr Wilma Nel has been appointed as the TPCP Diagnostic Clinic Manager as from 1 June.
Three FABIans recently visited dairy farmers in the Humansdorp region of the Eastern Cape to collect grass samples from pastures to investigate the presence of Pseudopithomyces chartarum.
A hearty congratulations to Mandy Messal who is the sixth FABIan to complete their PhD in FABI this year.
A group of FABI researchers published a study in the journal Current Forestry Reports that surmising that continuous replanting could impact future productivity in short-rotation forestry.
FABI welcomed a team from the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust that spent a morning at the Institute capturing video and stills footage for a corporate video.
Prof. Dave Berger presented a seminar to the Environmental Genomics group as part of his visit to the Christian-Alberts University of Kiel in Germany.
Leaders in the TPCP joined international visitors on a post-TPCP field trip to visit forestry and research partners, and reflect on the outcomes of the meeting and their relevance to the situation faced in the plantations and nurseries of industry partners.
Members of the EPPI research group travelled to Kwambonabi in the KwaZulu-Natal province to evaluate and harvest one of the biggest in-field inoculations with the pathogen Crysoporthe austroafricana.
The Grain Research Programme pest and disease extension and diagnostic clinic team attended NAMPO and exhibited the services offered by the clinic.
Two members of the Crop Floral Biology and Environments research team in FABI, showcased their group’s work at Grain SA’s NAMPO Harvest Day 2023.
FABI PhD candidate Phophi Nethononda visited smallholder farmers from Dzindi and Tshiombo irrigation schemes in Venda in the Limpopo province as part of her project.
As part of the NOVA PhD course, Prof. Dave Berger joined the field trip to the Flakkebjerg Research Station of Aarhus University in Denmark.
FABI researchers recently joined Prof. Jonàs Oliva, visiting from the University of Lleida, to sample a large number of rivers draining Cape province mountains for Phytophthora species.
Professors Brenda Wingfield and Mike Wingfield hosted a recent visit to FABI by members of the Future Professors Programme.
The University of Pretoria joined the rest of the world in celebrating the IDPH on 12 May under the theme: Plant Health Innovation for Food Security.
The TPCP held its 34th Annual Meeting at the Future Africa conference centre, where staff, postdoctoral Fellows and students present their work to industry and government stakeholders as feedback on the work conducted in the past year.
World renown plant pathologist, Prof. André Drenth recently visited FABI to attend various meetings and present a workshop on "how to be an effective scientist".
A hearty congratulations to all the FABI graduates that were capped at the recent University of Pretoria Autumn Graduation ceremony!
In recent months, Sandisiwe Jali, along with a team from Cropwatch Africa, has been working tirelessly in the field, sharing knowledge and expertise on the mobile app and identifying pests and diseases.
A new partnership was recently been launched between FABI and Milk SA to investigate Sporidesmin-Induced Liver Disease (SILD) in dairy cattle in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Prof. Dave Berger presented three topics for the class of 20 PhD students from Scandinavia at this year’s NOVA PhD course in Plant Pathology.
FABI PhD candidate Marthin Tarigan returned to Indonesia after spending three months at FABI to complete the writing part of his thesis.
Dr Esther de Rycke, a partner from the Mytox-SOUTH project, visited FABI as part of her trip to the University of Pretoria.
FSA has been contracted by the DFFE to implement the National Forestry Sector Research and Development Strategy and the Integrated National Forest Protection Strategy as they relate to pests and diseases threatening the forestry sector.