PPRI News No 116 – September 2020

  • Outbreaks of the brown locust, Locustana pardalina, reported from the Karoo
  • NEW Diagnostic Seed Health Test Available
  • PHP hosts the FAO and DALRRD to hand over equipment for control of fall armyworm
  • Uncovering the hidden treasure in the Rhizobia Collections
  • Entomologist called as expert witness in court case
  • Identity of quarantine nematode confirmed
  • Invasive cacti in South Africa: their identification and control
  • Fungus that causes disease of papaya newly detected in South Africa
  • Thirty continuous years of post-release evaluations of the gall rust fungus
  • Monitoring of aphid populations continues unabated
  • The balloon vine rust (Puccinia arechavaletae) establishes in South Africa
  • The value of collaboration
  • Geo-referencing of localities linked to specimens in the national collection of fungi
  • New species of leafhopper associated with rooibos tea
  • Advances in Characterization of Rhizobia from the SARCC Collection
  • Researcher receives award for review of manuscript
  • Sixty year old slides discovered of first plant-parasitic nematode species described in South Africa
  • Study shows that Fusarium oxysporum species complex populations in the South African grassland biome are genetically diverse
  • The Elderberry Dilemma