Project number: FShip Water 3
Project leader: Vivier, M
This study aims to evaluate and compare the adaptability and resilience of current commercial scion/rootstock combinations, established, and maintained under both optimal and sub-optimal water conditions using a holistic approach and novel techniques.
Project number: FShip TerraClim 2022
Project leader: Southey, T
This project continues to build on the Terraclim project started in 2019.
Project number: Pathsol GP 22-02
Project leader: Pietersen, G
The aim of this project is to expand upon the list of red cultivars which can be tested visually only, by determining the correlation between ELISA tests and symptoms.
Project number: Pathsol GP 22-01
Project leader: Pietersen, G
Using Ramsey (Vitis champini, formerly Salt creek), researchers aim to identify grapevine leafroll associated virus type 3 (GLRaV-3) immune, and GLRaV-3 tolerant individuals of this rootstock.
Project Number: RSYIELD 2016
Project leader: Jarmain, C
Crop estimation inaccuracies pose challenges to the wine industry, wineries growers. The winery has the challenge of scheduling capacity, procuring chemicals and...
Project Number: UP KK 02
Project leader: Kruger, K
To assist with the development of control strategies of Aster yellows phytoplasma (AY) in grapevine in South Africa, the project aimed to determine
Project Number: WW 04-24
Project leader: Lategan, E L
In the Western Cape with the Mediterranean climate (winter rainfall and long dry summers), agriculture has to compete with urban and industrial needs for water…
Project Number: US ENT 17-A2
Project leader: Addison, P
The factors determining the distribution of various fruit attacking weevils within the southwestern Cape is not known. Most recently, field studies experimented in...
Project Number: US ENT 17-A1
Project leader: Addison, P
The mite fauna of South Africa is poorly understood, due to a lack of enough researchers working on mites, as well as some taxonomic impediments. This is...
Project Number: US ENT 16-A1
Project leader: Addison, P
Katydids or krompokkels and the banded fruit weevil are sporadic pests in vineyards and orchards, but appear to be on the increase. Various fungal isolates have been...
Project Number: UP KK 03
Project leader: Kruger, K
Aster yellows phytoplasma is a quarantine organism in South Africa. It is transmitted to grapevine by the leafhopper Mgenia fuscovaria 1. In a recent experiment...
Project Number: 11728
Project leader: Pietersen, G
Effective control of leafroll in commercial vineyards of red cultivars relies very heavily on visual detection of the disease in individual vines in autumn, prior to roguing...