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FABI
FABI has grown rapidly since its establishment. The FABI team is made up of 35 academic staff, 174 post graduate (M.Sc., Ph.D.) students, 44 post-doctoral fellows, research visitors and a small core of support staff. Approximately 30 languages are spoken by members of the FABI team, which is a remarkably multinational and multicultural group. By the end of 2020, 211 PhD and 322 MSc students graduated under the supervision of research leaders associated with FABI.
Website: www.fabinet.up.ac.za
Research Groups
- AFRICAN PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY FOR THE BIOECONOMY
- APPLIED CHEMICAL ECOLOGY
- APPLIED MYCOLOGY
- AVOCADO RESEARCH PROGRAMME (ARP)
- BACTERIAL GENOMICS AND TREE HEALTH
- CEREAL FOLIAR PATHOGEN RESEARCH
- CERC-FABI TREE PROTECTION PROGRAMME (CFTPP - CHINA)
- CROP FLORAL BIOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
- DSI-NRF CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN PLANT HEALTH BIOTECHNOLOGY (CPHB)
- DSI-NRF SARCHI CHAIR IN FUNGAL GENOMICS
- EUCALYPTUS AND PINE PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS
- FOREST MOLECULAR GENETICS (FMG) PROGRAMME: GENOMICS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR SUPERIOR WOOD AND FIBRE
- GRAIN RESEARCH PROGRAMME
- MACADAMIA PROTECTION PROGRAMME
- MOLECULAR PLANT-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS (MPPI)
- MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP
- PHYTOBACTERIOLOGY PROGRAMME
- PLANT VIROLOGY
- POTATO PATHOLOGY RESEARCH PROGRAMME
- PSHB RESEARCH NETWORK
- RGE-FABI TREE HEALTH PROGRAM (INDONESIA)
- SEED SCIENCE AND PATHOLOGY OF FLOWERS, TREES AND AGRONOMIC CROPS
- SOCIAL INSECT RESEARCH GROUP
- TREE PROTECTION CO-OPERATIVE PROGRAMME (TPCP)
Satellite Labs:
- APPLIED CHEMICAL ECOLOGY
- REMOTE SENSING OF PLANT HEALTH
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN FARMING
Supporting Research Documentation
- A first worldwide multispecies survey of invasive Mediterranean pine bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae)
- Maternal effects should be considered in the establishment of forestry plantations
- Distribution and genetic diversity of five invasive pests of Eucalyptus in sub-Saharan Africa
- Pathologists and entomologists must join forces against forest pest and pathogen invasions
- A Genome-Wide Association Study for Resistance to the Insect Pest Leptocybe invasa in Eucalyptus grandis Reveals Genomic Regions and Positional Candidate Defense Genes
- Ceratocystis wilt on Eucalyptus: first record from South Africa
- Expected benefits of genomic selection for growth and wood quality traits in Eucalyptus grandis
- Poroid Hymenochaetaceae associated with trees showing wood-rot symptoms in the Garden Route National Park of South Africa
- Scientists' warning on invasive alien species
- Low genetic diversity and strong geographic structure in introduced populations of the Eucalyptus foliar pathogen Teratosphaeria destructans
- Novel species of Huntiella from naturally-occurring forest trees in Greece and South Africa
- Phytophthora Species Associated with Roots of Native and Non-native Trees in Natural and Managed Forests
- Genomic evidence of introgression and adaptation in a model subtropical tree species, Eucalyptus grandis
- Invasive gall-forming wasps that threaten non-nativeplantation-grown Eucalyptus: diversity and invasion patterns
- Eucalyptus camaldulensis in South Africa - past, present, future
- Genetic diversity of the pine pathogen Lecanosticta acicola in Slovenia and Croatia
- Global population genomics of the forest pathogen Dothistroma septosporum reveal chromosome duplications in high dothistromin‐producing strains
- Effect of Sirex noctilio (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) attack density on Pinus sylvestris (Pinaceae) survival
- Environmentally friendly methods for controlling pine pitch canker
- Local antagonism and resource partitioning between two invasive pine plantation pests
- Fieldwork To Understand The Emerging Ceratocystis Threat To Eucalyptus In South Africa
- The plastid and mitochondrial genomes of Eucalyptus grandis
- A Standardized Synthetic Eucalyptus Transcription Factor and Promoter Panel for Re-engineering Secondary Cell Wall Regulation in Biomass and Bioenergy Crops
- Ten new species of Calonectria from Indonesia and Vietnam
- Teratosphaeria stem canker of Eucalyptus: two pathogens, one devastating disease
- Maternal environment regulates morphological and physiological traits in Eucalyptus grandis
- FABI celebrates 20 years of research excellence
- Evolution of polyketide synthesis in a Dothideomycete forest pathogen
- Parasitoid assemblage associated with a North American pine weevil in South Africa
- Maternal effects on phenotype, resistance and the structuring of fungal communities in Eucalyptus grandis
- The unified framework for biological invasions: a forest fungal pathogen perspective
- Diversity, phylogeny and pathogenicity of Botryosphaeriaceae on non-native Eucalyptus grown in an urban environment: A case study
- The balance of trade in alien species between South Africa and the rest of Africa
- A new Leptographium species from the roots of declining Pinus sylvestris in Switzerland
- Classical biological control of insect pests of trees: facts and figures
- Novel and co-evolved associations between insects and microorganisms as drivers of forest pestilence
- Planted forest health: The need for a global strategy
- Antifungal actinomycetes associated with the pine bark beetle, Orthotomicus erosus, in South Africa
- Botrytis eucalypti, a novel species isolated from diseased Eucalyptus seedlings in South China
- Six recently recorded Australian insects associated with Eucalyptus in South Africa
- Why IUFRO really matters to tropical forestry research
- Precipitation, not air temperature, drives functional responses of trees in semi-arid ecosystems
- Securing African forests for future drier climates
- Ecology & population structure of a tree wound-infecting fungus in a native SA forest environment
- Neotypification of Dothistroma septosporum and epitypification of D. pini, causal agents of Dothistroma needle blight of pine
- Assessment of beetle diversity, community composition and potential threats to forestry using kairomone-baited traps
- Diseases on Eucalyptus species in Zimbabwean plantations and woodlots
- Comparative interrogation of the developing xylem transcriptomes of two wood-forming species: Populus trichocarpa and Eucalyptus grandis
- Genomic patterns of species diversity and divergence in Eucalyptus
- Novel taxa in the Fusarium fujikuroi species complex from Pinus spp.
- New species, hyper-diversity and potential importance of Calonectria spp. from Eucalyptus in South China
- Sirex Woodwasp: A Model for Evolving Management Paradigms of Invasive Forest Pests
- FABI-ICFR-Industry alliance publishes a special issue of Southern Forests
- Chemical signatures affecting host choice in the Eucalyptus herbivore, Gonipterus sp. (Curculionidae: Coleoptera)
- New pest of Eucalyptus detected in South Africa
- New publication on biological agent for Leptocybe invasa
- Cossid moth detected in KwaZulu-Natal
- Major International Forestry Award to FABI researcher
- Established and new technologies reduce increasing pest and pathogen threats to Eucalypt plantations
- Pruning quality affects infection of Acacia mangium and A. crassicarpa by Ceratocystis acaciivora and Lasiodiplodia theobromae
- Botryosphaeriaceae associated with Pterocarpus angolensis (kiaat) in South Africa
- Three new Ceratocystis species and evidence for geographic differentiation of the genus in Africa
- Ceratocystis species, including two new taxa, from Eucalyptus trees in South Africa
- Identification of fungal pathogens occurring in eucalypt and pine plantations in Zambia by comparing DNA sequences
- A serious canker disease caused by Immersiporthe knoxdaviesiana gen. et sp. nov. (Cryphonectriaceae) on native Rapanea melanophloeos in South Africa
- High population diversity and increasing importance of the Eucalyptus stem canker pathogen, Teratosphaeria zuluensis, in South China
- Eucalyptus leaf beetle Paropsisterna selmani (Chrysomelidae: Paropsini)
- Release of biological control for the Eucalyptus bronze bug
- Biological control agent for Thaumastocoris peregrinus to be released in South Africa
- Update on Glycaspis brimblecombei (red gum lerp psyllid)
- One year of releasing Selitrichodes neseri: biocontrol agent for Leptocybe invasa
- Official scientific report of Myrtle rust in Africa
- Myrtle / Eucalyptus rust now in South Africa!
- Update on releases of Selitrichodes neseri, biocontrol agent for Leptocybe invasa
- Biocontrol agent for eucalyptus gall wasp released
- Pest and disease threats accelerating
- New pest of Eucalyptus, Glycaspis brimblecombei, in South Africa
- Biological control agent for Leptocybe invasa released
- Selitrichodes release
- Why a mild-mannered American beetle has become a tree killer in Asia
- Disease Warning – Puccinia psidii
- Large scale die-off of an Iconic South African Tree – Euphorbia Ingens
- Gonipterus Scutellatus
- Pest and disease threats to plantation forestry in South Africa
- Unexplored Ophiostomatoid Fungal Diversity in South Africa
- A fungus from Africa threatens our Eucalyptus plantations
- Diversity and Evolution of Fusarium species in the Gibberella Fujikuroi Complex
- Genome sequence of Pantoea ananatis – a Eucalyptus pathogen
- UP scientists unravel hidden plant pathogenic fungi
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