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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology

Research Interests

Biocontrol of plant diseases

Detecting microbial waterborne pathogens

Hydroponic pathology

Bacterial pathogens in water

Environmental biotechnology

Integrated disease management

Panama disease of bananas

Plantation tree pathology

Forestry/ tree pathology

Soilborne disease

A survey and study of the plant pathogens reducing yields of indigenous food crops and the transmission and control of these pathogens

Postharvest technology and food safety

Microbial Evolution and Diversity

Prevention of grapevine leafroll disease spread between successive vineyards at the same site. Winetech 2004-2011

Phytonematology

Establishment of a diagnostic capacity for the detection of viruses and other graft-transmissible pathogens of Citrus. Citrus Research International (2005-2007)

Epidemiology and control of spread of grapevine leafroll disease. Winetech (South African Wine Industry

Evolution of Rhabdoviruses and epidemiology of lyssaviruses

Lyssavirus vaccines

West Nile virus

Plant viruses

 

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