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…
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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…
FABI has its first drone pilots
The growing application of remote sensing data using drones in South Africa has necessitated the…
FABI well represented at the ISCE conference 2021
From 5-10 September, academic staff, postdoctoral fellows, and students from FABI attended the 36…
GRP Disease Diagnostic and Extension service ready for new season after their visit to Cropwatch
During the week of 6-8 September, Alandie Niewoudt , Attie de Beer, Prof. Cobus Visagie , Prof.…
FABI team returns to the Cederberg for sampling
Members of the FABI team including Prof. Mike Wingfield , Prof. Brenda Wingfield and Dr Trudy Paap…
SASSB webinar explores a continental floristic riddle
The September webinar of the Southern African Society for Systematic Biology on 2 September had as…
FABIan sets sail for science
A PhD candidate in FABI , Francinah Rankoma is one of four students from the Department of…
The problem of CAM in India highlighted at the August FABI International Seminar
This month’s FABI International Seminar on 26 August moved into the medical mycology sphere casting…