PPRI News No 115 – May 2020

  • New look for PLANT PROTECTION NEWS!
  • FAO recognises ARC-PHP as centre of excellence for training
  • VIRIDI®ELISA KITS – TIA matchmaking event winner
  • Saving a World Heritage Site from Lantana
  • New alien invasive beetle in Europe
  • Emergence of Pythium as highly virulent pathogen
  • Relationship between ARC and Du Roi Laboratory strengthened
  • Spider diversity on the rise
  • The emergence of novel strains of bacteria that nodulate and fix nitrogen in legumes
  • New species found in mouldy dogfood
  • Eccentric man’s orphaned collection boosts value of SANC
  • Avicides applied over migratory quela birds
  • Fungi on olive trees surveyed
  • Important plant pathogenic genus, Fusarium, surveyed in South African soil
  • ARC-PHP participated at Virology Africa 2020
  • 13th Colloquium of the African Arachnology Society
  • New blight species reported from imported nectarines
  • New book on invasive alien plants launched
  • First report of the dagger nematode, Xiphinema oxycaudatum, from South Africa
  • New species of anthracnose recorded on papaya in South Africa
  • A first checklist of macrofungi for South Africa