Tammy Marsberg

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Tamryn Marsberg

Postdoctoral Fellow in Agricultural Entomology

‌PhD, Entomology, Rhodes University (2017)

Tamryn completed her PhD at Rhodes University in 2017, her researched focused on identifying and characterising a novel baculovirus for the use as a microbial control agent against tortricid moth pests. Currently she is in her second year of post-doctoral research at Rhodes University and Citrus Research international (CRI) where she is investigating the sterility of the F1 generation of sterile moths.

Reserach interests

Agricultural research
Biological control
Entomology
Baculoviruses

Recent publications

ABDULKADIR, F., MARSBERG, T., KNOX, C.M., HILL, M.P. AND MOORE, S.D. 2013. Morphological and genetic characterization of a South African Plutella xylostella granulovirus (PlxyGV) isolate. African Entomology. 21 (1): 168 -171.

MARSBERG, T., HILL, M.P. MOORE, S.D. AND TIMM, A.E. 2015. DNA-based identification of Lepidoptera associated with citrus in South Africa. African Entomology. 23 (1): 165 – 171.

ABDULKADIR, F., KNOX, C.M., MARSBERG, T., HILL, M.P. AND MOORE, S.D. 2015. Genetic and biological characterisation of a novel Plutella xylostella granulovirus, PlxyGV-SA. Biocontrol. 60 (2): 507-515.

MARSBERG, T., JUKES, M., CHAMBERS, C., HENDRICKS, C., KNOX, C., HILL, M. AND MOORE, S. 2017. The isolation of a novel alphabaculovirus and its potential for microbial control of key toricid moth pests. Microbial and Nematode Control of Invertebrate Pests, IOBC-WPRS. 129: 175-178.

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