• Ethnobotany and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
• Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
• Phytochemistry
• Cytotoxicity and natural product toxicology
• Emerging contaminants in surface water and groundwater
• Environmental fate of agricultural contaminants

• Ethnobotany and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
• Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
• Phytochemistry
• Cytotoxicity and natural product toxicology
• Emerging contaminants in surface water and groundwater
• Environmental fate of agricultural contaminants

• Dr KC Shilaluke - Google Scholar
• Dr KC Shilaluke - ResearchGate

Professional Affiliations:

• South African Association of Botanists (SAAB) - member

Awards:

• Best Honours Poster Presentation (2nd place) at Annual Postgraduate Symposium, Department of Botany and Plant Biotechnology, University of Johannesburg (2018)

Current:

• Occurence, environmental fate and transformation of botanical and synthetic insecticides in surface water and groundwater using targeted and non-targeted Mass Spectrometry.

Past: 

• An evaluation of insecticidal activities of selected plant extracts and chemical compounds extracted from plant species used traditionally in Southern Africa as insecticides
• Antifeedant and insecticidal activities of members of the family Meliaceae in South Africa
• Molecular and phylogenetic study of Searsia (Anacardiaceae) in Southern Africa