Biosecurity Field Officer His work involves monitoring of the Huanglongbing (HLB) vectors, Diaphorina citri and Trioza erytrea in Southern Africa. His work also includes identification of different psylloid species captured during field monitoring surveys around...
Area Extension Manager : Eastern Cape Andrè obtained his BSc (Botany and Soil Science) from North-West University (1992 to 1994). In 1995 he was appointed by the ARC – Institute For Tropical And Subtropical Crops in Nelspruit as researcher in the Cultivar...
Area Extension Manager : Western and Northern Cape Coenraad has 12 years of experience in the field of precision agricultural practices in the fruit industry of which a decade is focused on citrus. He has experience in most provinces in South Africa and has also...
Research Technician 2 Years’ experience in pest monitoring on citrus. Has experience in biological and cultural control of insect pests. Currently working under Dr Aruna Manrakhan on fruit flies and Dr Evans Mauda on other citrus pests. QUALIFICATIONS BSc in...
Postharvest Extension Officer Jan joined the Extension team within CRI in 2021. He has over 25 years experience in general maintenance and technical side of packhouses, knowledge of various wax applications, identification of pest and diseases on citrus....
Research Entomologist & Acarologist Davina has 15 years of experience in agricultural biosecurity en entomology and acarology. Her research has dealt with understanding and preventing entry of agricultural insect and mite pests. She brings this experience to the...
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...
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...
He has been a researcher at Citrus Research International since 2003. QUALIFICATIONS BSc Agric. Hons (Tuinboukunde) University of Pretoria – 1998 MSc Agric (Horticulture) University of Stellenbosch – 2002 Phd Agric (Horticulture) University of Stellenbosch – 2009...
Researcher : IPM 2 years post-doctoral fellowship at CRI and one year contract worker at CRI (3 years experience in citrus with CRI). Field and lab experience (genetic identification and biological assays). QUALIFICATIONS PhD...
