Cobus Visagie presents at DGFM Centennial symposium
Celebrating their 100 th year of existence, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mykologie (DGfM) held…
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Mad Mac Flower blight fieldtrip
During the week of 5 October, the Macadamia Protection Programme was in Mpumalanga for an on-going…
Lesotho agricultural research delegation visits FABI
FABI hosted a visit by a delegation from the Lesotho Department of Agricultural Research (DAR) on…
ARP hosts its annual Research Day
The Hans Merensky Chair in Avocado Research , hosted its annual Student Research Day as a hybrid…
FABIans attend the NSSA Symposium
Professor Brett Hurley and PhD candidate Agil Katumanyane attended the 23rd Symposium of the…
Nicky Creux co-organises International Sunflower Association (ISA) webconference
Dr Nicky Creux , programme leader of the Crop Floral Biology and Environments research group in…
Quentin Guignard interviewed on SAFM
Dr Quentin Guignard participated in a live radio interview on SAFM recently where host Stephen…
FABI participates in the third seed packing project for the National Maize Cultivar Evaluation Trials
A team of 36 FABI TPCP / CPHB students and interns took to task packing a large number of maize…
Discover FABI’s art collection
FABI ans and visitors to the Institute now have the biographical information about the artists…
Translating plant health information into South African languages
Former President Nelson Mandela said that “if you talk to a man in a language he understands, that…
More than 500 Eucalyptus trees harvested for future studies in FABI
From 13-15 September, a group of FABI ans visited SAPPI plantations in the Richards Bay area to…
FABI celebrates World Fungi Day
On Saturday 2 October a group of FABI ans joined Prof. Mike Wingfield in celebrating World Fungi…
Sclerotinia stem rot of soybean research featured in the FABI International Seminar Series
Dr Damon L. Smith of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) was the guest presenter at…
FABI and SAPPI partner for Phytophthora trials
Phytophthora diseases have long been a problem in commercial forestry in many countries. In South…
FABI shines at the Spring graduation
The University of Pretoria conferred 20 postgraduate degrees – 13 PhD degrees and seven MSc degrees…
Zander Myburg and co-workers awarded US-DOE grant to decipher woody biomass production and environmental interactions of eucalypt trees
Professor Zander Myburg , Director of the Forest Molecular Genetics (FMG) Programme in FABI will…
Remembering Neville Denison (1936-2021)
Reflections of Prof. Mike Wingfield , Founding Director of the TPCP and FABI on the passing of…
Twelfth Online meeting of the bark beetle mycobiome International Research Coordination Network
On Wednesday 29 September, the Bark Beetle Mycobiome International Research Coordination Network…
Diversifying the biological control of Gonipterus sp. 2 in South Africa
The Eucalyptus snout beetle , Gonipterus sp. 2, is an invasive insect native to Australia and a…
Cobus Visage a winner in the Zeiss Microscopy Image Contest 2021
Congratulations to Prof. Cobus Visagie on being judged one of the winners of the recent…