Thursday Morning Seminars

Chair: Frances Lane Philani Dlamini : The genome sequence of the multicomponent Banana Bunchy Top Virus (BBTV) from a South African isolate. Melissa Joubert :Elucidating the pathogenic determinant of avocado sunblotch viroid associated with bleaching symptoms in Persea americana . Lina del Mar Angel Salazar : A new wilt and black rot disease of Manihot esculenta (cassava) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo caused by a novel Ceratocystis species. Question panel: Nicole van Vuuren , Nomakula Zim , Nigel Kombora , and Johannes Joubert