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Browsing Research Articles (Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI)) by UP Author "Van den Berg, Noelani"
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Van den Berg, Noelani; Swart, Velushka; Backer, Robert; Fick, Alicia; Wienk, Raven; Engelbrecht, Juanita; Prabhu, Sreedhara Ashok (MDPI, 2021-03-01)AfricaAvocado (Persea americana) is an economically important fruit crop world-wide, the production of which is challenged by notable root pathogens such as Phytophthora cinnamomi and Rosellinia necatrix. Arguably the most ...
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Kuhn, David Norton; Livingstone III, Donald S.; Richards, Jennifer H.; Manosalva, Patricia M.; Van den Berg, Noelani; Chambers, Alan H. (Elsevier, 2019-02)Avocado (Persea americana) is an important tropical and subtropical fruit tree crop. Traditional tree breeding programs face the challenges of long generation time and significant expense in land and personnel resources. Avocado ...
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Fick, Alicia; Swart, Velushka; Bombarely, Aureliano; Van den Berg, Noelani (Wiley, 2024-04)Plant cells undergo extensive transcriptional reprogramming following pathogen infection, with these reprogramming patterns becoming more complex when pathogens, such as hemibiotrophs, exhibit different lifestyles. These ...
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Mahomed, Waheed; Van den Berg, Noelani (BioMed Central, 2011-11-23)BACKGROUND: Avocado (Persea americana) belongs to the Lauraceae family and is an important commercial fruit crop in over 50 countries. The most serious pathogen affecting avocado production is Phytophthora cinnamomi which ...
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Joubert, Melissa; Backer, Robert; Engelbrecht, Juanita; Van den Berg, Noelani (Public Library of Science, 2021-07)Phytophthora cinnamomi is a plant pathogenic oomycete that causes Phytophthora root rot of avocado (PRR). Currently, there is a limited understanding of the molecular interactions underlying this disease. Other Phytophthora ...
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Backer, Robert; Naidoo, Sanushka; Van den Berg, Noelani (BMC, 2023-11-08)A plant’s defense against pathogens involves an extensive set of phytohormone regulated defense signaling pathways. The salicylic acid (SA)-signaling pathway is one of the most well-studied in plant defense. The bulk of ...
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Reeksting, Bianca J.; Taylor, N.J. (Nicolette); Van den Berg, Noelani (Elsevier, 2014-11)Please read abstract in the article.
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Prabhu, Sreedhara Ashok; Ndlovu, Buyani; Engelbrecht, Juanita; Van den Berg, Noelani (Public Library of Science, 2017-10-20)Phytophthora Root Rot in areas where the pathogen is prevalent. However, advances in molecular research are hindered by the lack of a high-throughput transient transformation system in this non-model plant. In this study, ...
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Engelbrecht, Juanita; Duong, Tuan A.; Prabhu, Sreedhara Ashok; Seedat, Mohamed; Van den Berg, Noelani (BMC, 2021)BACKGROUND: Phytophthora cinnamomi is an oomycete pathogen of global relevance. It is considered as one of the most invasive species, which has caused irreversible damage to natural ecosystems and horticultural crops. ...
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Joubert, Monique; Van den Berg, Noelani; Theron, J.; Swart, Velushka (Elsevier, 2024-01)Avocado sunblotch viroid (ASBVd) is the type species of the family Avsunviroidae and the causal agent of avocado sunblotch disease. The disease is characterised by the presence of chlorotic lesions on avocado fruit, leaves ...
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Miyambo, Tsakani Magdeline; Backer, Robert; Engelbrecht, Juanita; Joubert, Fourie; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Van den Berg, Noelani (MDPI, 2022-05-20)Phytophthora cinnamomi is an economically important plant pathogen that has caused devastating losses to the avocado industry worldwide. To facilitate penetration and successful colonization of the host plant, pathogens ...
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Wingfield, Brenda D.; Berger, David Kenneth; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Duong, Tuan A.; Martin, Anke; Pham, Nam Q.; Van den Berg, Noelani; Wilken, Pieter Markus; Arun‑Chinnappa, Kiruba Shankari; Barnes, Irene; Buthelezi, Sikelela; Dahanayaka, Buddhika Amarasinghe; Duran, Alvaro; Engelbrecht, Juanita; Feurtey, Alice; Fourie, Arista; Fourie, Gerda; Hartley, Jesse Marion Holland; Kabwe, Eugene N. K.; Maphosa, Mkhululi N.; Mensah, Deborah L. Narh; Nsibo, David L.; Potgieter, Lizel; Poudel, Barsha; Stukenbrock, Eva H.; Thomas, Chanel; Vaghefi, Niloofar; Welgemoed, Tanya; Wingfield, Michael J. (International Mycological Association, 2022-11-21)No abstract available.
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Martínez-Ferri, E.; Moreno-Ortega, G.; Van den Berg, Noelani; Pliego, C. (BioMed Central, 2019-11-29)BACKGROUND : White root rot (WRR) disease caused by Rosellinia necatrix is one of the most important threats affecting avocado orchards in temperate regions. The eradication of WRR is a difficult task and environmentall ...
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Backer, Robert; Naidoo, Sanushka; Van den Berg, Noelani (Frontiers Media, 2019-02-13)The NONEXPRESSOR OF PATHOGENESIS-RELATED GENES 1 (NPR1) and related NPR1-like proteins are a functionally similar, yet surprisingly diverse family of transcription co-factors. Initially, NPR1 in Arabidopsis was identified ...
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Guillermo, Moreno-Ortega; Adela, Zumaquero; Antonio, Matas; Olivier, Nicholas Abraham; Van den Berg, Noelani; Palomo-Ríos, Elena; Martínez-Ferri, Elsa; Clara, Pliego (MDPI, 2021-09)Avocado consumption is increasing year by year, and its cultivation has spread to many countries with low water availability, which threatens the sustainability and profitability of avocado orchards. However, to date, ...
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Engelbrecht, Juanita; Duong, Tuan A.; Paap, Trudy; Hubert, Joseph M.; Hanneman, Juanita Joyce; Van den Berg, Noelani (American Phytopathological Society, 2022)Phytophthora cinnamomi is the causal agent of root rot, canker, and dieback of thousands of plant species around the globe. This oomycete not only causes severe economic losses to forestry and agricultural industries, but ...
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Zumaquero, Adela; Martınez-Ferri, Elsa; Matas, Antonio J.; Reeksting, Bianca J.; Olivier, Nicholas Abraham; Pliego-Alfaro, Fernando; Barcelo, Araceli; Van den Berg, Noelani (Public Library of Science, 2019-02)Rosellinia necatrix is the causal agent of avocado white root rot (WRR). Control of this soilborne disease is difficult, and the use of tolerant rootstocks may present an effective method to lessen its impact. To date, ...
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Van den Berg, Noelani; Mahomed, Waheed; Olivier, Nicholas Abraham; Swart, Velushka; Crampton, Bridget Genevieve (Public Library of Science, 2018-10-17)Phytophthora cinnamomi Rands (Pc) is a hemibiotrophic oomycete and the causal agent of Phytophthora root rot (PRR) of the commercially important fruit crop avocado (Persea americana Mill.). Plant defense against pathogens ...
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Midgley, Kayla A.; Van den Berg, Noelani; Swart, Velushka (MDPI, 2022-05-31)Oomycetes form a distinct phylogenetic lineage of fungus-like eukaryotic microorganisms, of which several hundred organisms are considered among the most devastating plant pathogens— especially members of the genus ...
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Fick, Alicia; Swart, Velushka; Van den Berg, Noelani (Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-06-02)Plant Nucleotide binding-Leucine rich repeat (NLR) proteins play a significant role in pathogen detection and the activation of effector-triggered immunity. NLR regulation has mainly been studied at a protein level, with ...
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