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Please join us for a presentation by Prof. Gerda Fourie. Her presentation "Biological control strategies for the two-spotted stink bug" will follow the formal part of the MMM.

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Chair: Alida van Dijk

Ncobile Kunene:Elucidating the role of Phytophthora cinnamomi RxLR effector genes during Persea americana infection.

Carlynn Jacobs: Clarifying species boundaries of mycotoxigenic Fusarium within the Fusarium fujikuroi species complex associated with Maize ear rot.

Question panel: Melandré van Lill, Lente van Zyl

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Chair: Sung Hyu Luke Kim

Rosa Knopperson: title pending

Ruth Nante: title pending

Question panel: Ncobile Kunene, Carlynn Jacobs

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The TPCP / FMG-EPPI Annual Symposium has become one of the most important meetings relating to forest tree health in South Africa and globally. The TPCP / FMG-EPPI Symposium will take place on 9-11 March 2026. This event is open to staff of member companies of the TPCP and other stakeholders in the TPCP and CPHB.

As has been the case in the past, this meeting will focus on key issues relating to forest tree breeding and health in South Africa. Importantly, the meeting will again seek to provide feedback to forest industry and other stakeholders on programmes focused on dealing with threatening pest and disease problems following an integrated pest management approach.

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Please join us for Johannes Christoff Joubert's Prestige Seminar "Chemical ecology of Gonipterus sp. n. 2: The role of constitutive and induced foliar metabolites, sugars, and volatiles in mediating host susceptibility, larval development and parasitoid attraction" in the FABI Auditorium at 14h30 on 25 March.

Refreshments will be served afterwards.

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Please join us for Phophi Nethononda's Prestige Seminar "Management of Spodoptera frugiperda on Zea mays in irrigation schemes in Limpopo province, South Africa" in the FABI Auditorium at 15h00 on 26 March. 

Refreshments will be served afterwards.