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  • QTL mapping of mycelial growth and aggressiveness to distinct hosts in Ceratocystis pathogens 
    Fourie, Arista; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; De Vos, Lieschen; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Barnes, Irene (Elsevier, 2019-10)
    Some species of Ceratocystis display strong host specificity, such as C. fimbriata sensu stricto that is restricted to sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) as host. In contrast, the closely related C. manginecans, infects Acacia ...
  • Quantification of outcrossing events in haploid fungi using microsatellite markers 
    Lee, Dong Hyeon; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Roux, Jolanda; Wingfield, Michael J. (MDPI, 2020-04)
    Species in genera of the fungal family Ceratocystidaceae are known to have different mating strategies, including heterothallism and homothallism. Of these, species of Ceratocystis, typified by the pathogen Ceratocystis ...
  • Rabies control in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 
    Le Roux, K.; Stewart, D.; Perrett, K.D,; Nel, Louis Hendrik; Kessels, J.A.; Abela-Ridder, Bernadette (World Health Organization, 2018-05)
    PROBLEM : Urbanization, large dog populations and failed control efforts have contributed to continuing endemicity of dog-mediated rabies in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. APPROACH : From 2007 to 2014 we used a ...
  • Rabies control in Liberia : joint efforts towards zero by 30 
    Voupawoe, Garmie; Varkpeh, Roland; Kamara, Varney; Sieh, Sonpon; Traore, Abdallah; De Battisti, Cristian; Angot, Angelique; Loureiro, Luis Filipe L. de J.; Soumare, Baba; Dauphin, Gwenaelle; Abebe, Wolde; Coetzer, Andre; Scott, Terence Peter; Nel, Louis Hendrik; Blanton, Jesse; Dacheux, Laurent; Bonas, Simon; Bourhy, Herve; Gourlaouen, Morgane; Leopardi, Stefania; De Benedictis, Paola; Lechenne, Monique; Zinsstag, Jakob; Mauti, Stephanie (Elsevier, 2021-04)
    Despite declaration as a national priority disease, dog rabies remains endemic in Liberia, with surveillance systems and disease control activities still developing. The objective of these initial efforts was to establish ...
  • Rabies in kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) 
    Scott, Terence Peter; Hassel, Rainer; Nel, Louis Hendrik (Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2012)
    Cycles of terrestrial rabies are associated with carnivores. In non-carnivorous species, rabies typically occurs as a spill-over from the carnivore reservoir and quickly encounters a dead end in such species. One major ...
  • Rabies in South Africa and the FIFA Soccer World Cup : travelers awareness for an endemic but neglected disease 
    Malerczyk, Claudius; Nel, Louis Hendrik; Gniel, Dieter; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen (Landes Bioscience, 2010-05)
    Rabies is endemic on every continent except Antarctica and is also considered to be a significant health problem in Africa, including South Africa. With the upcoming FIFA Soccer World Cup to be held in 2010 in cities ...
  • Ralstonia solanacearum needs Flp pili for virulence on potato 
    Wairuri, Charles K.; Van der Waals, Jacqueline Elise; Van Schalkwyk, Antoinette; Theron, Jacques (American Phytopathological Society, 2012)
    Type IV pili are virulence factors in various bacteria. Several subclasses of type IV pili have been described according to the characteristics of the structural prepilin subunit. Although type IVa pili have been implicated ...
  • Rapid detection of Grapevine leafroll-associated virus type 3 using a reverse transcription loop-mediated amplification method 
    Walsh, Helen Ann; Pietersen, Gerhard (Elsevier, 2013-12)
    Grapevine leafroll disease (GLD) is the most important disease of Grapevines in South Africa. Grapevineleafroll-associated virus type 3 (GLRaV-3) has a close association with the disease and is prevalent in SouthAfrican ...
  • Rapid detection of pine pathogens Lecanosticta acicola, Dothistroma pini and D. septosporum on needles by probe-based lamp assays 
    Aglietti, Chiara; Meinecke, Colton D.; Ghelardini, Luisa; Barnes, Irene; Van der Nest, Ariska; Villari, Caterina (MDPI, 2021-04-14)
    Needle blights are serious needle fungal diseases affecting pines both in natural and productive forests. Among needle blight agents, the ascomycetes Lecanosticta acicola, Dothistroma pini and D. septosporum are of ...
  • Ras2 is important for growth and pathogenicity in Fusarium circinatum 
    Phasha, Mmatshepho Malekgale; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Hallen-Adams, H.; Fru, Felix Fon; Swalarsk-Parry, Benedicta S.; Yilmaz, Neriman; Duong, Tuan A.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (Elsevier, 2021-05)
    In this study, we investigated to possible role of Ras2 in Fusarium circinatum- a fungus that causes pine pitch canker disease on many different pine species and has a wide geographic distribution. This protein is encoded ...
  • Re-evaluation of Mycoleptodiscus species and morphologically similar fungi 
    Hernández-Restrepo, M.; Bezerra, J.D.P.; Tan, Y.P.; Wiederhold, N.; Crous, Pedro W.; Guarro, J.; Gené, J. (National Herbarium of the Netherlands, 2019-06)
    Mycoleptodiscus includes plant pathogens, animal opportunists, saprobic and endophytic fungi. The present study presents the first molecular phylogeny and revision of the genus based on four loci, including ITS, LSU, ...
  • A re-evaluation of Penicillium section Canescentia, including the description of five new species 
    Visagie, Cobus M.; Frisvad, J.C.; Houbraken, J.; Visagie, A.; Samson, R.A.; Jacobs, K. (National Herbarium of the Netherlands, 2021-06)
    A survey of Penicillium in the fynbos biome from South Africa resulted in the isolation of 61 species of which 29 were found to be new. In this study we focus on Penicillium section Canescentia, providing a phylogenetic ...
  • Re-use of seedling containers and Fusarium circinatum association with asymptomatic Pinus patula planting stock 
    Morris, Andrew R.; Fourie, Gerda; Greyling, Izette; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Jones, Nicoletta B. (Taylor and Francis, 2014-08)
    Fusarium circinatum is a pathogen causing serious post-planting mortality of Pinus patula seedlings in southern Africa. Containerised planting stock that is asymptomatic but associated with F. circinatum in the nursery ...
  • The reaction of bacterial cultures to oxidising water treatment biocides 
    Pietersen, Belinda; Brözel, Volker Siegfried; Cloete, Thomas Eugene (Water Research Council, 1995-04)
    The possible development of resistance of bacteria found dominant in industrial water systems to the oxidising biocides hypochlorous acid and 3-bromo-1-chloro-5,5-dimethylhydantoin was investigated. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, ...
  • Realised genetic gains and estimated genetic parameters of two Eucalyptus grandis × E. urophylla hybrid breeding strategies 
    Van den Berg, Gert J.; Verryn, Steve D.; Chirwa, Paxie W.; Van Deventer, Francois Johannes (Taylor and Francis, 2017-01)
    Conventionally, Eucalyptus grandis x E. urophylla (GU) hybrid material has first been tested as seedlings in progeny trials for at least four years before ortets were selected and ramets of the selected ortets were propagated ...
  • Recommendations for competing sexual-asexually typified generic names in Sordariomycetes (except Diaporthales, Hypocreales, and Magnaporthales) 
    Reblova, Martina; Miller, Andrew N.; Rossman, Amy Y.; Seifert, Keith A.; Crous, Pedro W.; Abdel-Wahab, Mohamed A.; Cannon, Paul F.; Daranagama, Dinushani A.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Huang, Shi-Ke; Hyde, Kevin D.; Jayawardena, Ruvvishika; Jaklitsch, Walter; Jones, E.B. Gareth; Ju, Yu-Ming; Judith, Caroline; Maharachchikumbura, Sajeewa S.N.; Pang, Ka-Lai; Petrini, Liliane E.; Raja, Huzefa A.; Romero, Andrea I.; Shearer, Carol; Senanayake, Indunil C.; Voglmayr, Hermann; Weir, Bevan S.; Wijayawarden, Nalin N. (International Mycological Association, 2016-06-08)
    With the advance to one scientific name for each fungal species, the generic names in the class Sordariomycetes typified by sexual and asexual morphs are evaluated based on their type species to determine if they compete ...
  • Reconsideration of species boundaries and proposed DNA barcodes for Calonectria 
    Liu, QianLi; Li, JieQiong; Wingfield, Michael J.; Duong, Tuan A.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Crous, Pedro W.; Chen, S.F. (Fungal Biodiversity Centre (CBS), 2020-09)
    Calonectria represents a genus of phytopathogenic ascomycetous fungi with a worldwide distribution. In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of taxonomic studies on these fungi. Currently, there are 169 ...
  • Reconsidering species boundaries in the Ceratocystis paradoxa complex, including a new species from oil palm and cacao in Cameroon 
    Mbenoum, Michael; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Roux, Jolanda (Mycological Society of America, 2014)
    The Ceratocystis paradoxa complex accommodates a group of fungal pathogens that have become specialized to infect mostly monocotyledonous plants. Four species currently are recognized in this group, including C. paradoxa, ...
  • Redefining Ceratocystis and allied genera 
    De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Doung, T.A.; Barnes, Irene; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Fungal Biodiversity Centre (CBS), 2014-11-07)
    The genus Ceratocystis was established in 1890 and accommodates many important fungi. These include serious plant pathogens, significant insect symbionts and agents of timber degradation that result in substantial economic ...
  • Redefining Humicola sensu stricto and related genera in the Chaetomiaceae 
    Wang, X.W.; Yang, F.Y.; Meijer, M.; Kraak, B.; Sun, B.D.; Jiang, Y.L.; Wu, Y.M.; Bai, F.Y.; Seifert, K.A.; Crous, Pedro W.; Samson, R.A.; Houbraken, J. (Elsevier, 2019-06)
    The traditional concept of the genus Humicola includes species that produce pigmented, thick-walled and single-celled spores laterally or terminally on hyphae or minimally differentiated conidiophores. More than 50 species ...