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  • 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 ...
  • Gone with the wind : microbial communities associated with dust from emissive farmlands 
    Salawu-Rotimi, Adeola; Lebre, Pedro H.; Vos, Heleen Cornelia; Fister, Wolfgang; Kuhn, Nikolaus; Eckardt, Frank D.; Cowan, Don A. (Springer, 2021-11)
    Dust is a major vehicle for the dispersal of microorganisms across the globe. While much attention has been focused on microbial dispersal in dust plumes from major natural dust sources, very little is known about the ...
  • 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 ...
  • Doing it alone : unisexual reproduction in filamentous ascomycete fungi 
    Wilson, Andi M.; Gabriel, Raphael; Singer, Steven W.; Schuerg, Timo; Wilken, Pieter Markus; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D. (Elsevier, 2021-03)
    Unisexuality in fungi is the result of sexual reproduction in a single isolate that harbors genes associated with only a single mating type. To date, unisexual reproduction has been described in only three genera of ...
  • Botryosphaeriaceae on Syzygium cordatum across a latitudinal gradient in South Africa 
    Vivas, Maria; Mehl, James William Montague; Wingfield, Michael J.; Roux, Jolanda; Slippers, Bernard (Elsevier, 2021-09)
    The Botryosphaeriaceae is a family of endophytic fungi, many of which are latent pathogens of woody plants. Although extensively sampled in some parts of the world, little is known regarding their occurrence across different ...
  • Unidirectional mating-type switching confers self-fertility to Thielaviopsis cerberus, the only homothallic species in the genus 
    Kramer, Daniella; Lane, Frances Alice; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wilken, Pieter Markus (Elsevier, 2021-06)
    Sexual reproduction is ubiquitous in nature, and nowhere is this more so than in the fungi. Heterothallic behaviour is observed when there is a strict requirement of contact between two individuals of opposite mating type ...
  • FungalTraits : a user-friendly traits database of fungi and fungus-like stramenopiles 
    Polme, Sergei; Abarenkov, Kessy; Nilsson, R. Henrik; Lindahl, Bjorn D.; Clemmensen, Karina Engelbrecht; Kauserud, Havard; Nguyen, Nhu; Kjoller, Rasmus; Bates, Scott T.; Baldrian, Petr; Froslev, Tobias Guldberg; Adojaan, Kristjan; Vizzini, Alfredo; Suija, Ave; Pfister, Donald; Baral, Hans-Otto; Jarv, Helle; Madrid, Hugo; Norden, Jenni; Liu, Jian-Kui; Pawlowska, Julia; Poldmaa, Kadri; Partel, Kadri; Runnel, Kadri; Hansen, Karen; Larsson, Karl-Henrik; Hyde, Kevin David; Sandoval-Denis, Marcelo; Smith, Matthew E.; Toome-Heller, Merje; Wijayawardene, Nalin N.; Menolli, Nelson; Reynolds, Nicole K.; Drenkhan, Rein; Maharachchikumbura, Sajeewa S.N.; Gibertoni, Tatiana B.; Laessoe, Thomas; Davis, William; Tokarev, Yuri; Corrales, Adriana; Soares, Adriene Mayra; Agan, Ahto; Machado, Alexandre Reis; Arguelles-Moyao, Andres; Detheridge, Andrew; De Meiras-Ottoni, Angelina; Verbeken, Annemieke; Dutta, Arun Kumar; Cui, Bao-Kai; Pradeep, C.K.; Marin, Cesar; Stanton, Daniel; Gohar, Daniyal; Wanasinghe, Dhanushka N.; Otsing, Eveli; Aslani, Farzad; Griffith, Gareth W.; Lumbsch, Thorsten H.; Grossart, Hans-Peter; Masigol, Hossein; Timling, Ina; Hiiesalu, Inga; Oja, Jane; Kupagme, John Y.; Geml, Jozsef; Alvarez-Manjarrez, Julieta; Ilves, Kai; Loit, Kaire; Adamson, Kalev; Nara, Kazuhide; Kungas, Kati; Rojas-Jimenez, Keilor; Bitenieks, Kriss; Irinyi, Laszlo; Nagy, Laszlo G.; Soonvald, Liina; Zhou, Li-Wei; Wagner, Lysett; Aime, M. Catherine; Opik, Maarja; Mujica, Maria Isabel; Metsoja, Martin; Ryberg, Martin; Vasar, Martti; Murata, Masao; Nelsen, Matthew P.; Cleary, Michelle; Samarakoon, Milan C.; Doilom, Mingkwan; Bahram, Mohammad; Hagh-Doust, Niloufar; Dulya, Olesya; Johnston, Peter; Kohout, Petr; Chen, Qian; Tian, Qing; Nandi, Rajasree; Amiri, Rasekh; Perera, Rekhani Hansika; Chikowski, Renata dos Santos; Mendes-Alvarenga, Renato L.; Garibay-Orijel, Roberto; Gielen, Robin; Phookamsak, Rungtiwa; Jayawardena, Ruvishika S.; Rahimlou, Saleh; Karunarathna, Samantha C.; Tibpromma, Saowaluck; Brown, Shawn P.; Sepp, Siim-Kaarel; Mundra, Sunil; Luo, Zhu-Hua; Bose, Tanay; Vahter, Tanel; Netherway, Tarquin; Yang, Teng; May, Tom; Varga, Torda; Li, Wei; Coimbra, Victor Rafael Matos; De Oliveira, Virton Rodrigo Targino; De Lima, Vitor Xavier; Mikryukov, Vladimir S.; Lu, Yongzhong; Matsuda, Yosuke; Miyamoto, Yumiko; Koljalg, Urmas; Tedersoo, Leho (Springer, 2020-11)
    The cryptic lifestyle of most fungi necessitates molecular identification of the guild in environmental studies. Over the past decades, rapid development and affordability of molecular tools have tremendously improved ...
  • Conservation implications of fine scale population genetic structure of Ficus species in South African forests 
    Deng, Jun-Yin; Van Noort, Simon; Compton, Stephen G.; Chen, Yan; Greeff, Jacobus Maree (Elsevier, 2020-10)
    Genetic considerations are rarely applied in forest conservation management strategies, but forest fragmentation can reduce pollen and seed dispersal both between and within isolated fragments. Gene flow and immigration ...
  • Diagnostic markers for Teratosphaeria destructans and closely related species 
    Havenga, Minette; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Dreyer, Leanne Laurette; Roets, Francois; Aylward, Janneke (Wiley, 2020-12)
    Teratosphaeria foliar pathogens cause leaf and shoot blight on Eucalyptus trees in many parts of the world. Among them, T. destructans is one of the most aggressive pathogens causing defoliation of young Eucalyptus trees ...
  • First draft genome assembly of the desert locust, Schistocerca Gregaria 
    Verlinden, Heleen; Sterck, Lieven; Li, Jia; Li, Zhen; Yssel, A.E.J. (Anna); Gansemans, Yannick; Verdonck, Rik; Holtof, Michiel; Song, Hojun; Behmer, Spencer T.; Sword, Gregory A.; Matheson, Tom; Ott, Swidbert R.; Deforce, Dieter; Van Nieuwerburgh, Filip; Van de Peer, Yves; Vanden Broeck, Jozef (F1000Research, 2020)
    BACKGROUND: At the time of publication, the most devastating desert locust crisis in decades is affecting East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and South-West Asia. The situation is extremely alarming in East Africa, where ...
  • Complete genome sequence of collection strain acinetobacter baumannii ATCC BAA-1790, used as a model to study the antibiotic resistance reversion induced by iodine-containing complexes 
    Korotetskiy, Ilya S.; Joubert, Monique; Magobotha, Sade M.; Jumagaziyeva, Ardak B.; Shilov, Sergey V.; Suldina, Natalya A.; Kenesheva, Sabina T.; Yssel, A.E.J. (Anna); Reva, Oleg N.; Ilin, Aleksandr I. (American Society for Microbiology, 2020-01-16)
    The strain Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC BAA-1790 was sequenced as a model for nosocomial multidrug-resistant infections. Long-read PacBio sequencing revealed a circular chromosome of 3,963,235 bp with two horizontally ...
  • Multi-proxy analyses of a mid-15th century middle iron age Bantu-speaker palaeo-faecal specimen elucidates the configuration of the ‘ancestral’ sub-Saharan African intestinal microbiome 
    Rifkin, Riaan F.; Vikram, Surendra; Ramond, Jean-Baptiste; Rey-Iglesia, Alba; Brand, Tina B.; Porraz, Guillaume; Val, Aurore; Hall, Grant; Woodborne, Stephan M.; Le Bailly, Matthieu; Potgieter, Marnie; Underdown, Simon J.; Koopman, Jessica E.; Cowan, Don A.; Van de Peer, Yves; Willerslev, Eske; Hansen, Anders J. (BioMed Central, 2020-05-06)
    BACKGROUND : The archaeological incidence of ancient human faecal material provides a rare opportunity to explore the taxonomic composition and metabolic capacity of the ancestral human intestinal microbiome (IM). Here, ...
  • Effect of varying ethanol and water compositions on the acetone sensing properties of WO3 for application in diabetes mellitus monitoring 
    Saasa, Valentine; Lemmer, Yolandy; Malwela, Thomas; Akande, Amos; Beukes, Mervyn; Mwakikunga, Bonex (IOP Publishing Ltd, 2020-03-23)
    Tungsten oxide based gas sensors have attracted a lot of attention in breath acetone analysis due to their potential in clinical diagnosis of diabetes. The major problem with this material in sensor application has been ...
  • The water lily genome and the early evolution of flowering plants 
    Zhang, Liangsheng; Chen, Fei; Zhang, Xingtan; Li, Zhen; Zhao, Yiyong; Lohaus, Rolf; Chang, Xiaojun; Dong, Wei; Ho, Simon Y.W.; Liu, Xing; Song, Aixia; Chen, Junhao; Guo, Wenlei; Wang, Zhengjia; Zhuang, Yingyu; Wang, Haifeng; Chen, Xuequn; Hu, Juan; Liu, Yanhui; Qin, Yuan; Wang, Kai; Dong, Shanshan; Liu, Yang; Zhang, Shouzhou; Yu, Xianxian; Wu, Qian; Wang, Liangsheng; Yan, Xueqing; Jiao, Yuannian; Kong, Hongzhi; Zhou, Xiaofan; Yu, Cuiwei; Chen, Yuchu; Li, Fan; Wang, Jihua; Chen, Wei; Chen, Xinlu; Jia, Qidong; Zhang, Chi; Jiang, Yifan; Zhang, Wanbo; Liu, Guanhua; Fu, Jianyu; Chen, Feng; Ma, Hong; Van de Peer, Yves; Tang, Haibao (Nature Publishing Group, 2020-01-02)
    Water lilies belong to the angiosperm order Nymphaeales. Amborellales, Nymphaeales and Austrobaileyales together form the so-called ANA-grade of angiosperms, which are extant representatives of lineages that diverged the ...
  • Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research 
    Guerra, Carlos A.; Heintz-Buschart, Anna; Sikorski, Johannes; Chatzinotas, Antonis; Guerrero-Ramirez, Nathaly; Cesarz, Simone; Beaumelle, Lea; Rillig, Matthias C.; Maestre, Fernando T.; Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel; Buscot, Francois; Overmann, Jorg; Patoine, Guillaume; Phillips, Helen R.P.; Winter, Marten; Wubet, Tesfaye; Kusel, Kirsten; Bardgett, Richard D.; Cameron, Erin K.; Cowan, Don A.; Grebenc, Tine; Marin, Cesar; Orgiazzi, Alberto; Singh, Brajesh K.; Wall, Diana H.; Eisenhauer, Nico (Nature Publising Group, 2020-08-03)
    Soils harbor a substantial fraction of the world’s biodiversity, contributing to many crucial ecosystem functions. It is thus essential to identify general macroecological patterns related to the distribution and functioning ...
  • Calpurnia aurea (Aiton) benth extracts reduce quorum sensing controlled virulence factors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa 
    Cosa, Sekelwa; Rakoma, Jostina R.; Yusuf, Abdullahi Ahmed; Tshikalange, Thilivhali Emmanuel (MDPI Publishing, 2020-05-13)
    Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the causative agent of several life-threatening human infections. Like many other pathogens, P. aeruginosa exhibits quorum sensing (QS) controlled virulence factors such as biofilm during disease ...
  • Multi-locus phylogeny of the genus Curvularia and description of ten new species 
    Marin-Felix, Yasmina; Hernandez-Restrepo, Margarita; Crous, Pedro W. (Springer, 2020-06)
    Curvularia is a cosmopolitan genus that includes species associated with plants, animals and humans, several of which are of clinical significance. Some of these species are important pathogens of grasses, causing devastating ...
  • Microbial nitrogen metabolism in chloraminated drinking water reservoirs 
    Potgieter, Sarah; Dai, Zihan; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); Sigudu, Makhosazana; Pinto, Ameet J. (American Society for Microbiology, 2020-04)
    Ammonia availability due to chloramination can promote the growth of nitrifying organisms, which can deplete chloramine residuals and result in operational problems for drinking water utilities. In this study, we used a ...
  • Phages actively challenge niche communities in Antarctic soils 
    Bezuidt, Keoagile Ignatius Oliver; Lebre, Pedro H.; Pierneef, Rian Ewald; Leon-Sobrino, Carlos; Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; Cowan, Don A.; Van de Peer, Yves; Makhalanyane, Thulani Peter (American Society for Microbiology, 2020-05-05)
    By modulating the structure, diversity, and trophic outputs of microbial communities, phages play crucial roles in many biomes. In oligotrophic polar deserts, the effects of katabatic winds, constrained nutrients, and ...
  • Ceratocystis quercicola sp. nov. from Quercus variabilis in Korea 
    Cho, Sung-Eun; Lee, Dong Hyeon; Wingfield, Michael J.; Marincowitz, Seonju (Korean Society of Mycology, 2020-06-02)
    During a survey of putative fungal pathogens infecting oak trees in the Gangwon Province of the Republic of Korea, a fungus resembling a Ceratocystis sp. was repeatedly isolated from natural wounds on Quercus variabilis. ...