News: Honours projects - Vincent Bulone
Rhizopus arrhizus: Fantastic fungi and how to control them
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Honours project: Rhizopus arrhizus is a fast-growing fungus that spoils our food - it also has a huge biotechnological potential.
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Made-in-SA: Advanced materials derived from local growers’ agricultural waste
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Honours project: Turn fruit and vegetable waste into functional products
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Design of biomimetic coatings to understand plant-pathogen relations
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Honours project: Investigate how plant fungal pathogens adhere to and infect plant surfaces.
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Structural studies of cell wall proteins involved during pathogenesis
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Honours project: Study the structure of fungal cell wall proteins using ion mobility mass spectrometry and X-ray crystallography.
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Genomic analysis of fungal cell wall synthesis
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Honours project: Examine which sugars are made by different fungal species as cell wall components through genomic analysis.
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Modulation of the plant defence response by the fungal extracellular matrix
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Honours project: Investigate the relationship between fungal plant pathogen secretions and the plant defence response
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