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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

Liu QL, Wingfield MJ, Duong TA, Wingfield BD, Crous PW. (2026) Taxonomy, distribution and dispersal of Calonectria species: Important pathogens of forestry, agricultural and horticultural crops. Current Forestry Reports 12(4) 10.1007/s40725-025-00262-8
Nethononda PD, Hurley BP, Slippers B, Makhura MN. (2026) Smallholder farmers’ knowledge, perception and management of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on Zea mays at irrigation schemes in Limpopo province, South Africa. Crop Protection :107457. 10.1016/j.cropro.2025.107457
Botha I, De Canha MN, Oberlander K, Botes J, Lall N, Berger DK. (2025) DNA barcoding and anti-tyrosinase activities of three species-representative populations of the genus Greyia Hook & Harv. South African Journal of Botany 189:55-67. 10.1016/j.sajb.2025.11.035
Thomas C, Wilken PM, Coetzee MPA, Visagie CM. (2025) Advancing the taxonomy of Sclerotinia (Helotiales, Sclerotiniaceae): a review and recommendations for an important plant-pathogenic genus. IMA Fungus 17:e175737. 10.3897/imafungus.17.175737
Townsend G, Hill M, Hurley BP, Nel WJ, Crous C, Roets F. (2025) First report of the ambrosia beetle, Amasa parviseta (Curculiondae: Scolytinae), in South Africa. African Entomology 10.17159/2254-8854/2025/a24167 PDF