Professor Yasser Shabana, Director of the Seed Pathology and Tissue Culture Laboratory at the Faculty of Agriculture – Mansoura University, accredited according to ISO/IEC 17025:2017, and Director of the Electron Microscope Unit at the university, received Professor Hassan Mohamed El-Dahaby, Emeritus Professor of Plant Pathology at the Faculty of Agriculture – Tanta University and a member of the Agricultural Sector Committee. The visit took place on the sidelines of his attendance at the faculty to participate in the master's thesis defense of Aya El-Qasaby, a researcher at the Department of Plant Pathology.

Professor Shabana was accompanied by Professor Abdel Sattar Abdel Karim, Emeritus Professor at the Department of Economic Entomology, and Professor El-Sherbiny Abdel Moneim El-Sherbiny, Professor and Head of the Department of Plant Pathology, both from the Faculty of Agriculture – Mansoura University.

The accompanying delegation included Professor Ahmed El-Kafrawy, Principal Researcher at the Department of Vegetable Diseases, Institute of Plant Pathology Research – Giza; Professor Khaled Mohamed Ghoneim, Professor and Head of the Seed Pathology Department at the same institute, Agricultural Research Center – Giza; Dr. Ehsan Rashad, Researcher at the Seed Pathology Department; and Dr. Hamada Abdel Aziz, Researcher at the Institute of Plant Pathology, Agricultural Research Center.

During the visit, Professor Yasser Shabana guided the guests on a tour of the research laboratories of the faculty, where he presented an overview of the activities of the Seed Pathology Laboratory and the Electron Microscope Unit, highlighting their vital role in supporting scientific research and serving the academic community in Egypt and the Arab region.

He also reviewed the laboratory’s research achievements, including the development of a biological control agent against faba bean broomrape (Orobanche spp.), the first of its kind worldwide for combating broomrape in faba beans and legumes, as well as the production of a biological control agent against water hyacinth in the form of an emulsion containing spores and mycelia of the fungus Alternaria eichhorniae, specialized in controlling water hyacinth.