Dr. Jacquie van der Waals

Programme Manager : Pre-harvest Disease Research    QUALIFICATIONS PhD in Plant Pathology (UP)    ...

Dr. Rachelle Bester

Researcher : Biotechnology  Experienced in the development of biotechnological tools and the utilisation of bioinformatic data analyses of HTS data to study diseases in woody perennials. 10 years’ experience in the development of molecular detection and quantitation...

Dr. Hano Maree

Programme Coordinator & Researcher: HLB & and Biotechnology  Hano Maree is a Biotechnology researcher and serves as the Programme Coordinator for the HLB Research Programme. His primary research focus revolves around graft transmissible diseases in perennial...

Lindo Mamba

  Research Technician 5 years postharvest research and technical experience. QUALIFICATIONS...

Muriel Rikhotso

  CIS & GTD Intern  I started working for CRI from July 2019 as a postharvest intern and later joined the CIS team from April 2021. QUALIFICATIONS MSc Agric...

Dr. Providence Moyo

  Senior Researcher : Fruit & Foliar Diseases Incl CBS Experience in grapevine pathology. Four years working on citrus fruit and foliar diseases at CRI. 13 peer reviewed publications. QUALIFICATIONS PhD...

Rochelle de Bruyn

Graft Transmissible Disease Technician  Molecular experience in the detection of citrus viruses, viroids and Liberibacters. Extraction and testing of insects for biosecurity. Shoot Tip Grafting (STG) and micrografting of citrus cultivars. Detection assay development...

Chanel Steyn

    Graft Transmissible Disease Technician  7 years of experience in citrus molecular virology. Performing disease diagnostics and technical research support in the lab. Co-authored 7 peer reviewed papers and lead author on 1 peer reviewed paper. QUALIFICATIONS BSc...

Kobus Breytenbach

Graft Transmissible Disease Technician 29 years Graft Transmissible Disease technician.17 years Citrus Improvement Scheme: Shoot tip grafting and diagnostic services   QUALIFICATIONS National Diploma  ...

Dr. Meagan van Dyk

Postharvest Researcher  Meagan studied the causal organisms and inoculum sources of olive trunk diseases and tested the efficacy of pruning wound protectants on olive trees. Her master’s degree in plant Pathology was also completed at Stellenbosch University. She...