Browsing Research Articles (Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI)) by UP Author "Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie)"

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  • Armillaria root rot spreading into a natural woody ecosystem in South Africa 
    Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Musasira, N.Y.; Roux, Jolanda; Roets, F.; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Wingfield, Michael J. (Wiley, 2018-05)
    Signs and symptoms of a disease similar to those of armillaria root rot have recently been observed on various native woody plants on the foothills of Table Mountain in South Africa, one of the most botanically diverse ...
  • Chrysoporthe puriensis sp. nov. from Tibouchina spp. in Brazil : an emerging threat to Eucalyptus 
    Oliveira, M.E.S.; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Soares, T.P.F.; Kanzi, Aquillah M.; Ferreira, M.A. (Springer, 2021-01)
    The discovery of Cryphonectriaceae and more specifically species related to the Eucalyptus canker pathogen Chrysoporthe cubensis on shrubs and trees in the Melastomataceae, has deepened our understanding of relevant, and ...
  • Cryphonectriaceae associated with rust-infected Syzygium jambos in Hawaii 
    Roux, Jolanda; Nkuekam, Gilbert Kamgan; Marincowitz, Seonju; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Uchida, Janice; Wingfield, Michael J.; Chen, ShuaiFei (Pensoft Publishers, 2020-12-31)
    Syzygium jambos (Myrtales, Myrtaceae) trees in Hawaii are severely affected by a rust disease caused by Austropuccinia psidii (Pucciniales, Sphaerophragmiaceae), but they are commonly co-infected with species of Cryphonectriaceae ...
  • Draft genome of Cercospora zeina, Fusarium pininemorale, Hawksworthiomyces lignivorus, Huntiella decipiens and Ophiostoma ips 
    Wingfield, Brenda D.; Berger, David Kenneth; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Lim, Hye-Jin; Duong, Tuan A.; Bluhm, Burton H.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; De Vos, Lieschen; Fourie, Gerda; Naidoo, Kershney; Olivier, Nicholas Abraham; Lin, Yao-Cheng; Van de Peer, Yves; Joubert, Fourie; Crampton, Bridget Genevieve; Swart, Velushka; Soal, Nicole Christine; Tatham, Catherine; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Van Wyk, Stephanie; Wilken, Pieter Markus; Wingfield, Michael J. (International Mycological Association, 2017-11-21)
    The genomes of Cercospora zeina, Fusarium pininemorale, Hawksworthiomyces lignivorus, Huntiella decipiens, and Ophiostoma ips are presented in this genome announcement. Three of these genomes are from plant pathogens and ...
  • Draft genome sequences of Chrysoporthe austroafricana, Diplodia scrobiculata, Fusarium nygamai, Leptographium lundbergii, Limonomyces culmigenus, Stagonosporopsis tanaceti, and Thielaviopsis punctulata 
    Wingfield, Brenda D.; Ades, Peter K.; Al-Naemi, Fatima A.; Beirn, Lisa A.; Bihon, Wubetu; Crouch, Jo Anne; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; De Vos, Lieschen; Duong, Tuan A.; Fields, Christopher J.; Fourie, Gerda; Kanzi, Aquillah M.; Malapi-Wight, Martha; Pethybridge, Sarah J.; Radwan, Osman; Rendon, Gloria; Slippers, Bernard; Santana, Quentin C.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Taylor, Paul W.J.; Vaghefi, Niloofar; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Veltri, Daniel; Wingfield, Michael J. (International Mycological Association, 2015-06-22)
    The genomes of Chrysoporthe austroafricana, Diplodia scrobiculata, Fusarium nygami, Leptographium lundbergii, Limonomyces culmigenus, Stagonosporopsis tanaceti, and Thielaviopsis punctulata are presented in this genome ...
  • Evidence for salicylic acid signalling and histological changes in the defence response of Eucalyptus grandis to Chrysoporthe austroafricana 
    Zwart, Lizahn; Berger, David Kenneth; Moleleki, Lucy Novungayo; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Myburg, Alexander Andrew; Naidoo, Sanushka (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-03)
    Eucalyptus species are cultivated for forestry and are of economic importance. The fungal stem canker pathogen Chrysoporthe austroafricana causes disease of varying severity on E. grandis. The Eucalyptus grandis-Chrysoporthe ...
  • Fungal Planet description sheets : 320–370 
    Hammerbacher, Almuth; Crous, Pedro W.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Barnes, Irene; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Hernandez-Restrepo, Margarita; Guarro, Josep; Sotton, D.A.; Acharya, K.; Barber, Paul A.; Boekhout, Teun; Dimitrov, R.A.; Duenas, Margarita; Dutta, A.K.; Gene, Josepa; Gouliamova, D.E.; Groenewald, M.; Lombard, Lorenzo; Morozova, Olga V.; Sarkar, J.; Smith, M.Th.; Stchigel, A.M.; Wiederhold, N.P.; Alexandrova, A.V.; Antelmi, I.; Armengol, J.; Cano-Rina, J.F.; Castaneda-Ruiz, Rafael F.; Contu, M.; Courtecuisse, Pr.R.; Da Silveira, A.L.; Decock, C.A.; De Goes, A.; Edathodu, J.; Ercole, E.; Firmino, A.C.; Fourie, A.; Fournier, J.; Furtado, E.L.; Geering, A.D.W.; Gershenzon, J.; Giraldo, A.; Gramaje, D.; He, X-L.; Haryadi, D.; Khemmuk, W.; Kovalenko, A.E.; Krawczynski, R.; Laich, F.; Lechat, C,; Lopes, U.P.; Madrid, H.; Malysheva, E.F.; Marín-Felix, Y.; Martin, M.P.; Mostert, L.; Nigro, F.; Pereira, O.L.; Picillo, B.; Pinho, D.B.; Popov, Eugene S.; Rodas Pelaez, C.A.; Rooney-Latham, S.; Sandoval-Denis, M.; Shivas, R.G.; Silva, V.; Stoilova-Disheva, M.M.; Telleria, M. Teresa; Ullah, C.; Unsicker, S.B.; Vizzini, A.; Wagner, H.-G.; Wong, P.T.W.; Wood, A.R.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias (Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, 2015-06-10)
    Novel species of fungi described in the present study include the following from Malaysia: Castanediella eucalypti from Eucalyptus pellita, Codinaea acacia from Acacia mangium, Emarcea eucalyptigena from Eucalyptus brassiana, ...
  • Fungal systematics and evolution : FUSE 5 
    Song, Jie; Liang, Jun-Feng; Mehrabi-Koushki, Mehdi; Krisai-Greilhuber, Irmgard; Ali, Barkat; Bhatt, Vinod Kumar; Cerna-Mendoza, Agustín; Chen, Bin; Chen, Zai-Xiong; Chu, Hong-Long; Corazon-Guivin, Mike Anderson; Alves da Silva, Gladstone; De Kesel, Andre; Dima, Balint; Dovana, Francesco; Farokhinejad, Reza; Ferisin, Guliano; Guerrero-Abad, Juan Carlos; Guo, Ting; Han, Li-Hong; Ilyas, Sobia; Justo, Alfredo; Khalid, Abdul Nasir; Khodadadi-Pourarpanahi, Sadigheh; Li, Tai-Hui; Liu, Chao; Lorenzini, Marilinda; Lu, Jun-Kun; Mumtaz, Abdul Samad; Oehl, Fritz; Pan, Xue-Yu; Papp, Viktor; Qian, Wu; Razaq, Abdul; Semwal, Kamal C.; Tang, Li-Zhou; Tian, Xue-Lian; Vallejos-Tapullima, Adela; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Wang, Sheng-Kun; Wang, Chao-Qun; Yang, Rui-Heng; Yu, Fei; Zapparoli, Giacomo; Zhang, Ming; Antonín, Vladimir; Aptroot, Andre; Aslan, Ali; Banerjee, Arghya; Chatterjee, Subrata; Dirks, Alden C.; Ebrahimi, Leila; Fotouhifar, Khalil-Berdi; Ghosta, Youbert; Kalinina, Lyudmila B.; Karahan, Dilara; Liu, Jingyu; Maiti, Mrinal Kumar; Mookherjee, Abhirup; Nath, Partha Sarathi; Panja, Birendranath; Saha, Jayanta; Sevcíkova, Hana; Voglmayr, Hermann; Yazıcı, Kenan; Haelewaters, Danny (Verlag Ferdinand Berger, 2020)
    Thirteen new species are formally described: Cortinarius brunneocarpus from Pakistan, C. lilacinoarmillatus from India, Curvularia khuzestanica on Atriplex lentiformis from Iran, Gloeocantharellus neoechinosporus from ...
  • Genetic analysis of growth, morphology and pathogenicity in the F1 progeny of an interspecific cross between Fusarium circinatum and Fusarium subglutinans 
    De Vos, Lieschen; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D. (Elsevier, 2011-09)
    Fusarium circinatum and Fusarium subglutinans are two distinct species in the Gibberella fujikuroi species complex. A genetic linkage map produced from an interspecific cross between these species was used to identify ...
  • Genetic variability in populations of Chrysoporthe cubensis and Chr. puriensis in Brazil 
    Oliveira, M.E.S.; Kanzi, Aquillah M.; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Silva, G.A.; Ferreira, M.A. (Springer, 2022-03)
    Chrysoporthe puriensis, a sibling species of the well-known Eucalyptus canker pathogen Chr. cubensis, has recently been described from Brazil. Both species are thought to be native to South America, but previous population ...
  • Genome-wide analyses of repeat-induced point mutations in the Ascomycota 
    Van Wyk, Stephanie; Wingfield, Brenda D.; De Vos, Lieschen; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (Frontiers Media, 2021-02)
    The Repeat-Induced Point (RIP) mutation pathway is a fungus-specific genome defense mechanism that mitigates the deleterious consequences of repeated genomic regions and transposable elements (TEs). RIP mutates targeted ...
  • Global movement and population biology of Mycosphaerella nubilosa infecting leaves of cold-tolerant Eucalyptus globulus and E. nitens 
    Hunter, Gavin Craig; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Burgess, Treena I.; Carnegie, Angus J.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Crous, Pedro W.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Blackwell, 2008)
    Using 10 polymorphic DNA-based microsatellite markers, the genetic diversity of eight Mycosphaerella nubilosa populations from Eucalyptus, comprising 497 isolates from five different countries, was studies using a ...
  • Host switching between native and non-native trees in a population of the canker pathogen Chrysoporthe cubensis from Colombia 
    Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Rodas, Carlos A.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Wiley, 2013-06)
    The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that Chrysoporthe cubensis on native trees in South America could be the source of the pathogen that causes severe stem cankers and often mortality in commercially ...
  • The identification and characterization of endopolygalacturonases in a South African isolate of Phytophthora cinnamomi 
    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 ...
  • The mating system of the Eucalyptus canker pathogen Chrysoporthe austroafricana and closely related species 
    Kanzi, Aquillah M.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Wingfield, Brenda D. (Elsevier, 2019-02)
    Fungi in the genus Chrysoporthe are economically important canker pathogens of commercially grown Eucalyptus species and native Myrtales. Before the current study, homothallism was widely accepted as the mating system of ...
  • Mitochondrial introgression and interspecies recombination in the Fusarium fujikuroi species complex 
    Fourie, Gerda; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Wingfield, Brenda D.; Bogale, Mesfin Azene; Wingfield, Michael J.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (International Mycological Association, 2018-02-27)
    The Fusarium fujikuroi species complex (FFSC) is an economically important monophyletic lineage in the genus Fusarium. Incongruence observed among mitochondrial gene trees, as well as the multiple non-orthologous copies of ...
  • Multigene phylogenetic and population differentiation data confirm the existence of a cryptic species within Chrysoporthe cubensis 
    Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Gryzenhout, Marieka; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Elsevier, 2010-11)
    Chrysoporthe cubensis is one of the most important pathogens of Eucalyptus. Based on phylogenetic evidence and geographic origin, isolates of this fungus are known to reside in distinct ‘South America’ and ‘Southeast Asia’ ...
  • Multiple independent origins for a subtelomeric locus associated with growth rate in Fusarium circinatum 
    Van Wyk, Stephanie; Wingfield, Brenda D.; De Vos, Lieschen; Santana, Quentin C.; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (International Mycological Association, 2018-06)
    Fusarium is a diverse assemblage that includes a large number of species of considerable medical and agricultural importance. Not surprisingly, whole genome sequences for many Fusarium species have been published or are ...
  • Population structure and genetic diversity of Rhipicephalus microplus in Zimbabwe 
    Sungirai, Marvelous; Baron, Samantha; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Moyo, Doreen Zandile; De Clercq, Patrick; Maritz-Olivier, Christine; Madder, Maxime (Elsevier, 2018-04)
    Recently there was an expansion in the geographic range of Rhipicephalus microplus in Zimbabwe. In order to understand gene flow patterns and population structure in this highly invasive and adaptable cattle tick, a ...
  • The population structure of the Fusarium brachygibbosum species complex in the grassland biome of South Africa 
    Dhlamini, Lerato; Jacobs, Adriaana; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Summerell, Brett; Venter, Eduard (Springer, 2024-01)
    Fusarium brachygibbosum Padwick is a phytopathogen with a widespread distribution, infecting various host plants. In South Africa, there is a limited number of studies on the genetic diversity of fusaria, particularly in ...