Thursday Morning Seminar

Chair: Phinda Magagula Willem van der Westhuizen : Legume drought tolerance: assessing the slow-wilting phenotype among soybean, dry bean, and cowpea in South Africa Teresia Macharia : Towards the Identification and Functional characterization of Meloidogyne javanica effector proteins involved in parasitism Elmarie vd Merwe : The development and application of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tools to control the insect pest Sirex noctilio Lize Reinecke : Efficacy of new oomycete fungicides and biological control agents for the management of Phytophthora root rot of citrus in South Africa Question panel: Maxwell Kibor, Jostina Rakoma, Caitlin Gevers and Msizi Ramaoka