Chairperson: David Nsibo

Pfano Mbedzi - Initial screening of South African soybeans for Simple Sequence Repeats conferring resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.

Khumbuzile Bophela -  Plant host range tests for Pseudomonas syringae genomospecies 1 pathotypes.

Marja O'Neill - Fine-scale population structure of native Eucalyptus grandis, and genomic architecture of artificial selection in South African breeding populations.

Johnathan Breedenkamp - Seven transmembrane proteins in fungi: An overview.