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