ARC- Plant Health and Protection

Mr Thabo Phasoana presenting Evaluation of fungicide seed treatments for control of Pythium and Rhizoctonia on soybean under glasshouse conditions

Dr. Alan Wood discussing the heteroecious life cycle of Puccinia dignitaries on Digitaria eriantha and Solanum species, the first to be elucidated in South Africa in a century.

Baker's articulation of an "ideal" w**d by Prof Anne Pringle delivering the Ethyl M Doidge Address
The Range
Sophien Kamoun
Pathology
Health and Protection

ARC attending 2022 SASPP congress at Future Africa, Pretoria, Guateng. JE Vanderplank Memorial Adress by Prof Sophien Kamoun Thinking
The Range
Sophien Kamoun
Pathology
Health and Protection

On 5 June we celebrate World Environment Day. The ARC-PHP has a long and proud history of protecting the environment and our unique ecosystems and biodiversity in South Africa through the development of host-specific biological control agents against invasive alien plants and cosmopolitan insect pests of agriculture and forestry. The use of biological control in an integrated management strategy against target invasive alien plants and pest insects has proven to be a cost-effective and environmentally sustainable method of control compared with the repeated application of broad-spectrum pesticides. The ARC-PHP also undertakes research on our South African honeybees to monitor the health and wellbeing of these essential service providers in our environment. In addition, the ARC-PHP is the custodian of the National Collections of Insects, Arachnids, Fungi, Rhizobia, Plant viruses and bacteria where we catalog and curate the unique and wonderful biological diversity we have in South Africa. We are therefore very privileged to live in a country with a such wide range of environments that is home to our rich and unique biodiversity, so we encourage all South Africans to celebrate World Environment Day.

Save the date for ARC-PHP exciting bee related training events

ARC-PHP celebrated World Bee Day at NAMPO by sharing information on beekeeping, bees and honey, including a fun Bee Quiz for students visiting Nampo

Lesiba Ledwaba in an interview with OFM, chatting about World Bee Day 2022 and how ARC will be commemorating the day.

Visit the ARC pavilion today at and our Plant Health specialists will be there to help you download the Fall Armyworm App and answer all your questions about this pesky pest. Click here: https://bit.ly/3LuvIAd