Posted on March 07, 2016
Ms Rabia Mathakutha, a master’s student in the Department of Integrated Plant and Soil Sciences, recently received two prestigious awards at the Joint Annual Conference of the South African Association of Botany and the Southern African Society for Systematic Biology.
Posted on December 07, 2015
One staff member and two PhD students from the University of Pretoria won three of the twelve fellowships awarded by the 2015 L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Sub-Saharan Africa 2015 programme.
Posted on November 09, 2015
Analike Blom van Staden, currently a masters student in the department of Medicinal Plant Sciences at UP, presented her MSc. research study at the 15th International Conference on Science and Innovative Engineering (ICSIE) – hosted in Rome, Italy by the International Society for...
Posted on October 26, 2015
Scientists and industry leaders in plant science shared the latest advances in plant breeding at the 2nd Annual DuPont Plant Breeding Symposium Africa at the University of Pretoria (UP) on September 29. The only student-led symposium sponsored by DuPont Pioneer in Africa, the meeting brought...
Posted on October 26, 2015
Prof. Braam van Wyk, an alumnus of the former Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, now the North-West University (NWU), was honoured by his alma mater at a special awards ceremony in Sandton on 9 October 2015. During this event the NWU Alumni Award of Excellence was bestowed...
Posted on October 19, 2015
We are proud to announce that the newest section of the Manie van der Schijff Botanical Gardens has recently achieved recognition in two coveted categories in the Institute for Landscape Architecture in South Africa (ILASA) Awards of Excellence 2015
Posted on October 15, 2015
Scientists and industry leaders in plant science recently shared the latest advances in plant breeding at the Second Annual DuPont Plant Breeding Symposium Africa, held at the University of Pretoria (UP).
Posted on October 09, 2015
The newly appointed Head of the School of Plant and Crop Sciences at the University of Pretoria (UP), Prof Nigel Barker, would like the new School to do its best to cure 'plant blindness'.
Posted on September 15, 2015
Rabia Mathakutha won the People's Choice award for her presentation at the recent SAEON conference
Posted on August 14, 2015
Dr. Barnabas Daru was awarded a prize at the 2015 New Phytologist Symposium
Posted on August 13, 2015
The research component of the Monsanto/BE at UP Collaborative Research Programme aims to monitor whether glyphosate-resistance in weeds is developing and to assess the plant mechanisms involved.
Posted on July 13, 2015
Dr Michelle Greve from the Department of Plant Science accompanied by two MSc students, visited Marion Island from the 12th of April until the 15th of May this year. They conducted research concerning alien plant species on the island.
Posted on June 11, 2015
Where better to get to know you plants, than right in the middle of Dinokeng, surrounded by trees, shrubs and grasses with the roar of lions in your ears. This is just what happened on the weekend of the 24 to the 26 of April to the Plant Science Third Year excursion students.
Posted on June 11, 2015
The theme for Open day this year of the Department of Plant Science was Fascinating Plants. A vibrant atmosphere of excitement, curiosity and expectation filled the air as learners from various schools and ages, accompanied by their parents flocked to the Rautenbach Hall. Just to be astonished by...
Posted on June 09, 2015
The Ezemvelo Nature Reserve is situated on the border between Gauteng and Mpumalanga in the Rand Highveld Grassland and Loskopdam Mountain Bushveld. The reserve is approximately 11 000 ha of which 400 ha is covered by grassland and 600 ha by savannah, an excellent locality for the students to get...
Posted on May 18, 2015
Prof Terry Aveling from the University of Pretoria’s Department of Plant Science received the 2015 SANSOR-Bayer Science for a Better Life Award.
Posted on May 13, 2015
Researchers and postgraduate students from the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) and the Genomics Research Institute (GRI) at the University of Pretoria contributed to eight articles in a special issue of the journal, New Phytologist.
Posted on December 05, 2014
2014 DuPont Symposium
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