Research Groups

FABI enjoys the strength of various research initiatives relating to forestry and forest health. These include the Tree Protection Co-operative Programme (TPCP) established in 1990, as a co-operative programme supporting commercial forestry companies in South Africa, the Forest Molecular Biology Programme and the DST/ NRF Centre of Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology (CTHB). Through these and other programmes, the Institute based at the University of Pretoria (http://www.up.ac.za/) hosts students and researchers from many parts of the world, with some 30 languages spoken by members of the FABI team. FABI researchers have had close linkages with Chinese, since the establishment of the Institute and these are clearly destined to expand in the future. A step in this direction has been the recent establishment of the CFEPP, a new research initiative focussed on studying Eucalyptus pests and diseases, linking FABI and the China Eucalypt Research Centre (CERC).