PPRI News No 118 – December 2021

  • YourSoilTM – Complete soil health package using biotic and abiotc indicators
  • Polymorphomyia basilica Snow (Diptera: Tephritidae), a new biological con-trol agent against Chromolaena odorata R.M.King & H.Rob. (Asteraceae) in South Africa
  • Biocontrol mass-rearing facility open day at PHP Roodeplaat
  • The big-headed Mexican sunflower Tithonia tubaeformis (Asteraceae) is rapidly expanding its distribution in South Africa
  • Nematodes associated with crop seeds
  • Post-fire seedling emergence and survival of Acacia longifolia and A. pyc-nantha under long-term biological control in South Africa
  • FAW strains investigated
  • Seed treatment to control soilborne diseases in field crops
  • ARC-PHP shares research findings on Fall armyworm, [Spodoptera frugiperda (JE Smith), (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) with other countries in the SADC region
  • The role of certain mortality factors in the underperformance of Aristaea thalassias (Meyrick) as a biological control agent of Australian myrtle Leptospermum laevigatum F. Muel.
  • Continuation of the standards of generally recognised accounting prac-tice (GRAP) activities in the National Collection of Fungi
  • The establishment of two weed biocontrol agents
  • New book on control of alien invasive hakea