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Southern African Society for Plant Pathology
Advancing Agriculture in Southern Africa

2022 SASPP AWARDEES

2022 SASPP Awardees

Biennial Conference Awards

SASPP Plant Health Products Award for Best Oral Presentation Biological Control

Presented to Sinegugu Shude for her oral presentation “An integrated control strategy for managing Fusarium head blight of wheat using epiphytic yeasts and a plant defence inducer”.

From left to right: Prof. Noëlani van den Berg (FABI), Sinegugu Shude (UKZN), Dr Gloria Mandiriza (Corteva), Prof. Bernard Slippers (FABI)

PANNAR Award for Best Oral Presentation by a Student

Presented to Lihan Esterhuizen for his oral presentation titled “A non-destructive technique for early detection of Phytophthora root rot using hyperspectral leaf reflectance”.

From left to right: Prof. Noëlani van den Berg (FABI), Dr Rikus Kloppers (Corteva), Lihan Esterhuizen (UP), Dr Gloria Mandiriza (Corteva), Prof. Bernard Slippers (FABI)

inqaba biotec Award for Best Student Presentation in Molecular Biology

Presented to Dirk Aldrich for his presentation titled “From mutants to informants: Using infectious clones to study citrus tristeza virus-induced stem pitting”.

From left to right: Prof. Noëlani van den Berg (FABI), Dirk Aldrich (SU), Tshepiso Shude (inqaba biotech), Ernest Mokoena (inqaba biotech) Prof. Bernard Slippers (FABI)

PANNAR Award for Best Poster Presentation by a Student

Presented to Angel Maduke for her poster titled “Diversity of the Botryosphaeriaceae on Macadamia leaves, nuts, and racemes and their association with disease”.

From left to right: Prof. Noëlani van den Berg (FABI), Dr Rikus Kloppers (Corteva), Angel Maduke (UP), Dr Gloria Mandiriza (Corteva), Prof. Bernard Slippers (FABI)

RUNNER-UP Poster Presentations by Students

Presented to Alida van Dijk for her poster titled “A CRISPR-Cas9 mediated gene knockout system to functionally characterize virulence genes in Fusarium circinatum”.

From left to right: Prof. Noëlani van den Berg (FABI), Dr Rikus Kloppers (Corteva), Alida van Dijk (UP), Dr Gloria Mandiriza (Corteva), Prof. Bernard Slippers (FABI)

Presented to Neo Victor Hlongwane for his poster titled “Exploring soybean and sunflower microbiomes for beneficial bacterial microorganisms”.

From left to right: Prof. Noëlani van den Berg (FABI), Dr Rikus Kloppers (Corteva), Neo Hlongwane (UFS), Dr Gloria Mandiriza (Corteva), Prof. Bernard Slippers (FABI)