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  • Strauss, Steven H.; Boerjan, Wout; Chiang, Vincent; Costanza, Adam; Coleman, Heather; Davis, John M.; Lu, Meng-Zhu; Mansfield, Shawn D.; Merkle, Scott; Myburg, Alexander Andrew; Nilsson, Ove; Pilate, Gilles; Powell, William; Seguin, Armand; Valenzuela, Sofia (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019-08-23)
    Forest certification bodies were established to provide consumers with confidence that they are purchasing sustainably sourced wood products.
  • Markotter, Wanda; Geldenhuys, Marike; Jansen van Vuren, Petrus; Kemp, Alan; Mortlock, Marinda; Mudakikwa, Antoine; Nel, Louis Hendrik; Nziza, Julius; Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Weyer, Jacqueline (MDPI Publishing, 2019-07-02)
    A high diversity of corona- and paramyxoviruses have been detected in different bat species at study sites worldwide, including Africa, however no biosurveillance studies from Rwanda have been reported. In this study, ...
  • Haavik, Laurel J.; Slippers, Bernard; Hurley, Brett Phillip; Dodds, Kevin J.; Scarr, Taylor; Turgeon, Jean J.; Allison, Jeremy D. (Wiley, 2020-06)
    1. Competition and predation are important components of biotic resistance, which helps define the invasibility of an ecosystem. 2. To search for evidence of biotic resistance to the European woodwasp, Sirex noctilio ...
  • Van Wyk, Stephanie; Harrison, Christopher H.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; De Vos, Lieschen; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (PeerJ, 2019-08)
    BACKGROUND. The RIPper (http://theripper.hawk.rocks) is a set of web-based tools designed for analyses of Repeat-Induced Point (RIP) mutations in the genome sequences of Ascomycota. The RIP pathway is a fungal genome ...
  • Cowan, Don A.; Hopkins, D.W.; Jones, B.E.; Maggs-Kolling, G.; Majewska, R.; Ramond, Jean-Baptiste (Springer, 2020-01)
    The Namib Desert is one of the world’s only truly coastal desert ecosystem. Until the end of the 1st decade of the twenty-first century, very little was known of the microbiology of this southwestern African desert, with ...
  • Hernandez-Restrepo, Margarita; Madrid, H.; Tan, Y.P.; Da Cunha, K.C.; Gene, J.; Guarro, J.; Crous, Pedro W. (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 2018-12)
    Exserohilum includes a number of plant pathogenic, saprobic and clinically relevant fungi. Some of these species are of great importance in human activities, but the genus has never been revised in a phylogenetic framework. ...
  • Bose, Tanay; Roux, Jolanda; Burgess, Treena I.; Shaw, Christopher; Wingfield, Michael J. (Wiley, 2019-12)
    Eucalyptus grandis and its hybrids, as well as Acacia mearnsii, are important non‐native trees commonly propagated for forestry purposes in South Africa. In this study, we conducted pathogenicity trials to assess the ...
  • Migliorini, Duccio; Khdiar, Mohammed Y.; Padron, Cristina Rodriguez; Vivas, Maria; Barber, Paul A.; Hardy, Giles E. St J.; Burgess, Treena I. (Elsevier, 2019-12)
    Phytophthora multivora is a recently described species with a global distribution associated with disease of many woody plant species. However, very few pathogenicity studies have been conducted to determine the host range ...
  • Estrada-de los Santos, Paulina; Palmer, Marike; Chávez-Ramírez, Belén; Beukes, Chrizelle Winsie; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Briscoe, Leah; Khan, Noor; Maluk, Marta; Marcel Lafos; Humm, Ethan; Arrabit, Monique; Crook, Matthew; Gross, Eduardo; Simon, Marcelo F.; Dos Reis Junior, Fabio Bueno; Whitman, William B.; Shapiro, Nicole; Poole, Philip S.; Hirsch, Ann M.; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); James, Euan K. (Elsevier, 2018-08-01)
    Burkholderia sensu lato is a large and complex group, containing pathogenic, phytopathogenic, symbiotic and non-symbiotic strains from a very wide range of environmental (soil, water, plants, fungi) and clinical (animal, ...
  • 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 ...
  • Lebre, Pedro H.; Aliyu, Habibu; De Maayer, Pieter; Cowan, Don A. (BioMed Central, 2018-10-03)
    BACKGROUND : Geobacillus and Parageobacillus are two ecologically diverse thermophilic genera within the phylum Firmicutes. These taxa have long been of biotechnological interest due to their ability to secrete ...
  • Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Jansen van Vuren, Petrus; Kemp, Alan; Storm, Nadia; Grobbelaar, Antoinette A.; Wiley, Michael R.; Palacios, Gustavo; Markotter, Wanda (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018)
    We detected a high seroprevalence of Marburg virus (MARV) antibodies in fruit bats in South Africa; 19.1% of recaptured bats seroconverted. The MARV RNA isolated closely resembled the 1975 Ozolin strain. These findings ...
  • Iqbal, Javed; Abbasi, Banzeer Ahsan; Ahmad, Riaz; Batool, Riffat; Mahmood, Tariq; Ali, Barkat; Khalil, Ali Talha; Kanwal, Sobia; Afzal Shah, Sayed; Alam, Muhammad Maqsood; Bashir, Sheeza; Badshah, Hussain; Munir, Akhtar (Elsevier, 2019-01)
    Skin cancer is a life threatening disease and their prevalence and risk has been increasing over the past three decades causing significant loss to human health worldwide. Mostly skin cancer has developed resistance against ...
  • Sibanda, Siphathele; Kwenda, Stanford; Tanui, Collins Kipngetich; Shyntum, Divine Yufetar; Coutinho, Teresa A.; Moleleki, Lucy Novungayo (Elsevier, 2018-03)
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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 ...
  • Lin, Yao-Cheng; Wang, Jing; Delhomme, Nicolas; Schiffthaler, Bastian; Sundstrom, Gorel; Zuccolo, Andrea; Nystedt, Bjorn; Hvidsten, Torgeir R.; De la Torre, Amanda; Cossu, Rosa M.; Hoeppner, Marc P.; Lantz, Henrik; Scofield, Douglas G.; Zamani, Neda; Johansson, Anna; Mannapperuma, Chanaka; Robinson, Kathryn M.; Mahler, Niklas; Leitch, Ilia J.; Pellicer, Jaume; Park, Eung-Jun; Van Montagu, Marc; Van de Peer, Yves; Grabherr, Manfred; Jansson, Stefan; Ingvarsson, Par K.; Street, Nathaniel R. (National Academy of Sciences, 2018-10-29)
    The Populus genus is one of the major plant model systems, but genomic resources have thus far primarily been available for poplar species, and primarily Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray), which was the first tree with ...
  • Tuskan, Gerald A.; Groover, Andrew T.; Schmutz, Jeremy; DiFazio, Stephen Paul; Myburg, Alexander Andrew; Grattapaglia, Dario; Smart, Lawrence B.; Yin, Tongming; Aury, Jean-Marc; Kremer, Antoine; Leroy, Thibault; Le Provost, Gregoire; Plomion, Christophe; Carlson, John E.; Randall, Jennifer; Westbrook, Jared; Grimwood, Jane; Muchero, Wellington; Jacobson, Daniel; Michener, Joshua K. (Frontiers Media, 2018-12-17)
    Woody perennial angiosperms (i.e., hardwood trees) are polyphyletic in origin and occur in most angiosperm orders. Despite their independent origins, hardwoods have shared physiological, anatomical, and life history ...
  • De Jager, Stefan; Coetzee, Nicoleen; Coetzee, Vinet (BioMed Central, 2018-12-21)
    The relationship between facial cues and perceptions of health and attractiveness in others plays an influential role in our social interactions and mating behaviors. Several facial cues have historically been investigated ...
  • Burgess, Stewart T.G.; Bartley, Kathryn; Marr, Edward J.; Wright, Harry W.; Weaver, Robert J.; Prickett, Jessica C.; Hughes, Margaret; Haldenby, Sam; Thi Le, Phuong; Rombauts, Stephane; Van Leeuwen, Thomas; Van de Peer, Yves; Nisbet, Alasdair J. (American Society for Microbiology, 2018-04-19)
    Sheep scab, caused by infestation with Psoroptes ovis, is highly contagious, results in intense pruritus, and represents a major welfare and economic concern. Here, we report the first draft genome assembly and gene ...
  • Wingfield, Brenda D.; Bills, Gerald F.; Dong, Yang; Huang, Wenli; Nel, Wilma Janine; Swalarsk-Parry, Benedicta S.; Vaghefi, Niloofar; Wilken, Pieter Markus; An, Zhiqiang; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; De Vos, Lieschen; Chen, Li; Duong, Tuan A.; Gao, Yun; Hammerbacher, Almuth; Kikkert, Julie R.; Li, Yan; Li, Huiying; Li, Kuan; Li, Qiang; Liu, Xingzhong; Ma, Xiao; Naidoo, Kershney; Pethybridge, Sarah J.; Sun, Jingzu; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Van Wyk, Stephanie; Wingfield, Michael J.; Xiong, Chuan; Yue, Qun; Zhang, Xiaoling (International Mycological Association, 2018-06-11)
    Draft genomes of the species Annulohypoxylon stygium, Aspergillus mulundensis, Berkeleyomyces basicola (syn. Thielaviopsis basicola), Ceratocystis smalleyi, two Cercospora beticola strains, Coleophoma cylindrospora, ...