Combined TPCP diagnostic clinic and field extension trip
The Tree Protection Co-operative Programme (TPCP) diagnostic clinic and field extension team spent…
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FABIans attend the 31st Fungal Genetics Congress at Asilomar
A team of seven FABI researchers attended the 31 st Fungal Genetics Conference (FGC) , held from…
Students and staff learn from Cropwatch Africa
On 24 March, postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows and staff from FABI , and an undergraduate…
Additional office space at the FABI Biocontrol Nursery and Insect Rearing facility
The number of postgraduate students and interns working in the different projects at the FABI…
Early easter egg hunt for the MadMacs
In February, PhD candidate Elisa Pal joined by her fellow comrades from the Macadamia Protection…
Survey of wattle pests and pathogens in Awi Zone, Ethiopia
Recently, the Ethiopian Environment and Forest Research Institute (EEFRI) in collaboration with the…
FABIans are two of the BSPP’s “40 Faces of Plant Pathology”
Two FABI ans, Proff. Dave Berger and Mike Wingfield , have been featured in the British Society for…
Czech visitors present on their research at MMM
Three visitors from the Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences presented their…
Collection of ambrosia beetle infested material in Durban
During the week of 28 February a team of FABI ans visited various regions in Durban to collect…
Dennis Omondi, “honorary FABIan”, graduated with MSc (Plant Breeding) at Maseno University, Kenya
Dennis Omondi spent two research visits in the MPPI lab at FABI and Department of Plant and Soil…
Prof. Wilhelm de Beer honoured
FABI colleagues, friends and family met on 8 March to honour the exceptional career of Prof.…
FABI welcomes its first Mycobiomics visitors from the Czech Republic
FABI had the pleasure of welcoming its first visitors from the Institute of Microbiology of the…
FABI researchers investigate Protea health problems in Pretoria
The Western Cape Province and particularly the Cape Floristic Region is famous for the many species…
ARP presents at SAAGA 2022
The South African Avocado Growers Association (SAAGA) Annual Research Symposium took place in…
FABI “up front and evident” at NRF Awards event
CoViD regulations have precluded the National Research Foundation (NRF) from holding their normal…
Rust, Sex and Magic at the FABI International Seminar
FABI Alumnus Dr Alistair McTaggart of the University of Queensland in Australia started off the…
Farewell to Hiroyuki
FABI team members faced the sad reality of having to say goodbye to Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Hiroyuki…
FABI Director joins the GRP field trip to the Eastern Cape
The Grain Research Program (GRP) team comprising Dr Mahlane Godfrey Kgatle , Pfano Mbedzi ,…
Ministers urged to reconsider genome editing regulations in South Africa
The Executive Council of the GMO Act in South Africa announced in October 2021 that so-called “New…
Joint Sappi-FABI Phytophthora trials harvested
Phytophthora diseases have long been a problem in commercial forestry in many countries. In South…