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  • The dual functionality of antimicrobial peptides Os and Os‐C in human leukocytes 
    Taute, Helena; Bester, Megan Jean; Gaspar, Anabella Regina Marques (Wiley, 2019-04)
    Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), Os and Os‐C, have been identified as multifunctional peptides with antibacterial, antiendotoxin, and anti‐inflammatory properties. For further development of Os and Os‐C as therapeutic peptides, ...
  • Some outcomes of the Nomenclature Section of the XIXth International Botanical Congress 
    Klopper, Ronell Renett; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Smith, Gideon F. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-05-23)
    BACKGROUND : A Nomenclature Section meeting to amend the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants is held every six years, a week before the International Botanical Congress. OBJECTIVES : To report ...
  • Xylan in the middle : understanding xylan biosynthesis and its metabolic dependencies toward improving wood fiber for industrial processing 
    Wierzbicki, Martin Piotr; Maloney, Victoria; Mizrachi, Eshchar; Myburg, Alexander Andrew (Frontiers Media, 2019-02)
    Lignocellulosic biomass, encompassing cellulose, lignin and hemicellulose in plant secondary cell walls (SCWs), is the most abundant source of renewable materials on earth. Currently, fast-growing woody dicots such as ...
  • Characteristics of owned dogs in rabies endemic KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa 
    Hergert, Melinda; Le Roux, Kevin; Nel, Louis Hendrik (BioMed Central, 2018-09-10)
    BACKGROUND : Canine rabies has been enzootic in the dog population of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa since the mid-1970s and has been associated with high rates of human exposures and frequent transmissions ...
  • The lung microbiome in children with HIV-bronchiectasis : a cross-sectional pilot study 
    Masekela, Refiloe; Vosloo, Solize; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Green, Robin J. (BioMed Central, 2018-05-22)
    BACKGROUND : Data on the lung microbiome in HIV-infected children is limited. The current study sought to determine the lung microbiome in HIV-associated bronchiectasis and to assess its association with pulmonary exac ...
  • Comparative genomic analysis of Parageobacillus thermoglucosidasius strains with distinct hydrogenogenic capacities 
    Mohr, Teresa; Aliyu, Habibu; Kuchlin, Raphael; Zwick, Michaela; Cowan, Don A.; Neumann, Anke; De Maayer, Pieter (BioMed Central, 2018)
    BACKGROUND : The facultatively anaerobic thermophile Parageobacillus thermoglucosidasius produces hydrogen gas (H2) by coupling CO oxidation to proton reduction in the water-gas shift (WGS) reaction via a carbon ...
  • Natural products from Actinobacteria associated with fungus-growing termites 
    Benndorf, Rene; Guo, Huijuan; Sommerwerk, Elisabeth; Weigel, Christiane; Garcia-Altares, Maria; Martin, Karin; Hu, Haofu; Kufner, Michelle; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Poulsen, Michael; Beemelmanns, Christine (MDPI Publishing, 2018-09-13)
    The chemical analysis of insect-associated Actinobacteria has attracted the interest of natural product chemists in the past years as bacterial-produced metabolites are sought to be crucial for sustaining and protecting ...
  • Ceratocystidaceae exhibit high levels of recombination at the mating-type (MAT) locus 
    Simpson, M.C. (Melissa Claire); Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D. (Elsevier, 2018-12)
    Mating is central to many fungal life cycles and is controlled by genes at the mating-type (MAT) locus. These genes determine whether the fungus will be self-sterile (heterothallic) or self-fertile (homothallic). Species ...
  • Alternative hosts and seed transmissibility of soybean blotchy mosaic virus 
    Strydom, Elrea; Pietersen, Gerhard (Springer, 2018-05)
    Soybean blotchy mosaic virus (SbBMV) is an important virus of soybean in the warmer regions of South Africa. The presence of the virus is associated with blotchy mosaic symptoms on soybean leaves and significant annual ...
  • Fungal Planet description sheets : 716–784 
    Crous, Pedro W.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Burgess, T.I.; Hardy, G.E.St.J.; Gene, J.; Guarro, J.; Baseia, I.G.; Garcia, D.; Gusmao, L.F.P.; Souza-Motta, C.M.; Thangavel, R.; Adamcík, S.; Barili, A.; Barnes, C.W.; Bezerra, J.D.P.; Bordallo, J.J.; Cano-Lira, J.F.; De Oliveira, R.J.V.; Ercole, E.; Hubka, V.; Iturrieta-Gonzalez, I.; Kubatova, A.; Martín, M.P.; Moreau, P.-A.; Morte, A.; Ordonez, M.E.; Rodríguez, A.; Stchigel, A.M.; Vizzini, A.; Abdollahzadeh, J.; Abreu, V.P.; Adamcíkova, K.; Albuquerque, G.M.R.; Alexandrova, A.V.; Alvarez Duarte, E.; Armstrong-Cho, C.; Banniza, S.; Barbosa, R.N.; Bellanger, J.-M.; Bezerra, J.L.; Cabral, T.S.; Cabon, M.; Caicedo, E.; Cantillo, T.; Carnegie, A.J.; Carmo, L.T.; Castañeda-Ruiz, R.F.; Clement, C.R.; Cmokova, A.; Conceição, L.B.; Cruz, R.H.S.F.; Damm, u.; Da Silva, B.D.B.; Da Silva, G.A.; Da Silva, R.M.F.; De A. Santiago, A.L.C.M.; De Oliveira, L.F.; De Souza, C.A.F.; Deniel, F.; Dima, B.; Dong, G.; Edwards, J.; Felix, C.R.; Fournier, J.; Gibertoni, T.B.; Hosaka, K.; Iturriaga, T.; Jadan, M.; Jany, J.-L.; Jurjevic, Z.; Kolarík, M.; Kusan, I.; Landell, M.F.; Leite Cordeiro, T.R.; Lima, D.X.; Loizides, M.; Luo, S.; Machado, A.R.; Madrid, H.; Magalhaes, O.M.C.; Marinho, P.; Matocec, N.; Mesic, A.; Miller, A.N.; Morozova, Olga V.; Neves, R.P.; Nonaka, K.; Novakova, A.; Oberlies, N.H.; Oliveira-Filho, J.R.C.; Oliveira, T.G.L.; Papp, V.; Pereira, O.L.; Perrone, G.; Peterson, S.W.; Pham, Thi Ha Giang; Raja, H.A.; Raudabaugh, D.B.; Rehulka, J.; Rodríguez-Andrade, E.; Saba, M.; Schauflerova, A.; Shivas, R.G.; Simonini, G.; Siqueira, J.P.Z.; Sousa, J.O.; Stajsic, V.; Svetasheva, T.; Tan, Y.P.; Tkalcec, Z.; Ullah, S.; Valente, P.; Valenzuela-Lopez, N.; Abrinbana, M.; Viana Marques, D.A.; Wong, P.T.W.; Xavier de Lima, V.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 2018-07-13)
    Novel species of fungi described in this study include those from various countries as follows: Australia, Chaetopsina eucalypti on Eucalyptus leaf litter, Colletotrichum cobbittiense from Cordyline stricta × C. australis ...
  • Diversity of gall-forming rusts (Uromycladium, Pucciniales) on Acacia in Australia 
    Doungsa-ard, C.; McTaggart, Alistair R.; Geering, A.D.W.; Shivas, R.G. (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 2018-05-16)
    Uromycladium tepperianum has been reported on over 100 species of Acacia, as well as on the closely related plant genera, Falcataria, Racosperma and Paraserianthes. Previous studies have indicated that U. tepperianum may ...
  • Agulhas Current properties shape microbial community diversity and potential functionality 
    Phoma, Sandra; Vikram, Surendra; Jansson, Janet K.; Ansorge, Isabelle J.; Cowan, Don A.; Van de Peer, Yves; Makhalanyane, Thulani Peter (Nature Publising Group, 2018-07-12)
    Understanding the impact of oceanographic features on marine microbial ecosystems remains a major ecological endeavour. Here we assess microbial diversity, community structure and functional capacity along the Agulhas ...
  • Seiridium (Sporocadaceae) : an important genus of plant pathogenic fungi 
    Bonthond, G.; Sandoval-Denis, M.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias; Crous, Pedro W. (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 2018-01-09)
    The genus Seiridium includes multiple plant pathogenic fungi well-known as causal organisms of cankers on Cupressaceae. Taxonomically, the status of several species has been a topic of debate, as the phylogeny of the genus ...
  • Diaporthe diversity and pathogenicity revealed from a broad survey of grapevine diseases in Europe 
    Guarnaccia, Vladimiro; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias; Woodhall, J.; Armengol, J.; Cinelli, T.; Eichmeier, A.; Ezra, D.; Fontaine, F.; Gramaje, D.; Gutierrez-Aguirregabiria, A.; Kaliterna, J.; Kiss, L.; Larignon, P.; Luque, J.; Mugnai, L.; Naor, V.; Raposo, R.; Sandor, E.; Vaczy, K.Z.; Crous, Pedro W. (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 2018-02-19)
    Species of Diaporthe are considered important plant pathogens, saprobes, and endophytes on a wide range of plant hosts. Several species are well-known on grapevines, either as agents of pre- or post-harvest infections, ...
  • Function, dynamics and evolution of network motif modules in integrated gene regulatory networks of worm and plant 
    Defoort, Jonas; Van de Peer, Yves; Vermeirssen, Vanessa (Oxford University Press, 2018-06-05)
    Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) consist of different molecular interactions that closely work together to establish proper gene expression in time and space. Especially in higher eukaryotes, many questions remain on ...
  • Magnetotactic bacteria used to generate electricity based on Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction 
    Smit, B.A.; Van Zyl, Elritha; Joubert, J.J.; Meyer, Walter Ernst; Preveral, S.; Lefevre, C.T.; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas) (Wiley, 2018-05)
    Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) have the unique ability to produce magnetic particles surrounded by a biomembrane to form the magnetosome organelle. Therefore, MTB have novel physical and magnetic properties and have consequently ...
  • Anti-quorum sensing and antimicrobial activities of South African medicinal plants against uropathogens 
    Baloyi, Itumeleng Tsebang; Cosa, Sekelwa; Combrinck, Sandra; Leonard, Carmen M.; Viljoen, Alvaro M. (Elsevier, 2019-05)
    Urinary tract infections (UTIs) primarily affect women and have increasingly become a serious health problem globally. These infections are largely attributed to the quorum sensing (QS)-dependent ability of pathogens to ...
  • Multimicrobial kombucha culture tolerates Mars-like conditions simulated on low earth orbit 
    Podolich, Olga; Kukharenko, Olga; Haidak, Andriy; Zaets, Iryna; Zaika, Leonid; Storozhuk, Olha; Palchikovska, Larysa; Orlovska, Iryna; Reva, Oleg N.; Borisova, Tatiana; Khirunenko, Ludmila; Sosnin, Mikhail; Rabbow, Elke; Kravchenko, Volodymyr; Skoryk, Mykola; Kremenskoy, Maksym; Demets, Rene; Olsson-Francis, Karen; Kozyrovska, Natalia; De Vera, Jean-Pierre Paul (Mary Ann Liebert, 2019-02-11)
    A kombucha multimicrobial culture (KMC) was exposed to simulated Mars-like conditions in low Earth orbit (LEO). The study was part of the BIOlogy and Mars EXperiment (BIOMEX), which was accommodated in the European Space ...
  • A standardized synthetic Eucalyptus transcription factor and promoter panel for re-engineering secondary cell wall regulation in biomass and bioenergy crops 
    Hussey, Steven Grant; Grima-Pettenati, Jacqueline; Myburg, Alexander Andrew; Mizrachi, Eshchar; Brady, Siobhan M.; Yoshikuni, Yasuo; Deutsch, Samuel (American Chemical Society, 2019-01)
    Re-engineering of transcriptional networks regulating secondary cell wall formation may allow the improvement of plant biomass in widely grown plantation crops such as Eucalyptus. However, there is currently a scarcity of ...
  • Identification of Mgenia fuscovaria (Stål) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), a vector of aster yellows disease on grapevines in South Africa, and differentiation from Mgenia angusta (Theron) by nucleotide sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (cox1) gene 
    Pietersen, Gerhard; Pietersen, G. (Jnr); Pietersen, I.; Stiller, M. (South African Society for Enology and Viticulture, 2018)
    Aster yellows phytoplasma (AY), only recently reported in South Africa and still limited in its distribution in the country, causes a serious disease of grapevine. A leafhopper, Mgenia fuscovaria (Stål)(Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), ...