It’s a horror story unfolding in the west that could sweep across the country. Beware the shot-hole borer, an exotic pest that threatens our tree crops, plantations, urban forests and wild places.
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For the past 13 years I’ve focused on sequencing one plant pathogen’s genome. Here’s where that scientific journey has led.
These plants play a crucial role in a delicate ecosystem. If Cape Beech trees or in fact other native tree species are wiped out, that whole ecosystem shifts.
Understanding the sex lives of fungi can help in finding answers about disease control.
The beetle and the fungus have devastated trees in California in the US as well as in Israel. Now they’re in South Africa.
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Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor, University of Pretoria
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Professor, Advisor to the Executive, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria
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Research Fellow, Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
