New paper in “Frontiers”

Dave Drew was part of the team of authors led by Dr. Annemarie Eckes-Shepard who recently had a new paper, entitled “Wood formation modelling – a research review and future perspectives”, published in Frontiers in Plant Science. This is a comprehensive review, covering 16…

Oluwaseun graduates

Oluwaseun recently received his M.Sc. degree during the December graduation, which took place at Stellenbosch University from 13 to 16 December 2021. This year the graduation ceremony followed a hybrid model where small physical (face-to-face) ceremonies, as well as virtual faculty-specific graduation ceremonies were…

Dave visits kwaMbonambi industry trials

Prof Dave Drew attended a workshop hosted by Prof Zander Myburg, University of Pretoria, in kwaMbonambi on 28th February. The meeting was to bring together stakeholders and current/potential future participants in a new project which Prof Myburg is leading to undertake “…large-scale genome sequencing…

Prof K. von Gadow guest lecture

Prof Klaus von Gadow is visiting South Africa at the moment. We were very glad when he agreed on Tuesday 1st March to give a guest lecture to the 3rd year Growth and Yield students! He was able to bring to them a wonderful…