Recently added

Research Articles (Microbiology and Plant Pathology): Recent submissions

  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi persist in dying Euphorbia ingens trees 
    Vivas, Maria; Crous, C.J.; Dames, J.F.; Van der Linde, Johannes Alwyn; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Roux, Jolanda (Elsevier, 2018-03)
    Forest declines have been reported with increasing regularity during the last decade and are expected to increase due to the ongoing environmental changes. During adverse environmental conditions, plant symbioses with ...
  • Architecture and distribution of introns in core genes of four Fusarium species 
    Phasha, Mmatshepho Malekgale; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Santana, Quentin C.; Fourie, Gerda; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (Genetics Society of America, 2017-11)
    Removal of introns from transcribed RNA represents a crucial step during the production of mRNA in eukaryotes. Available whole-genome sequences and expressed sequence tags (ESTs) have increased our knowledge of this ...
  • Draft genome of the fungus-growing termite pathogenic fungus Ophiocordyceps bispora (Ophiocordycipitaceae, Hypocreales, Ascomycota) 
    Conlon, Benjamin H.; Mitchell, Jannette; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Caroe, Christian; Gilbert, M. Thomas P.; Eilenberg, Jorgen; Poulsen, Michael; De Fine Licht, Henrik H. (Elsevier, 2017-04)
    This article documents the public availability of genome sequence data and assembled contigs representing the partial draft genome of Ophiocordyceps bispora. As one of the few known pathogens of fungus-farming termites, ...
  • Survey of Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) diversity in pigmented Citrus x paradisi (Macfad.) (Grapefruit) trees in north-western Argentina 
    Read, David Alan; Palacios, M.F.; Kleynhans, Jackie; Figueroa, J.; Foguet, L.; Stein, B.; Pietersen, Gerhard (Springer, 2018-06)
    Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) is the most severe viral pathogen of citrus and elicits a wide range of devastating disease symptoms. Grapefruit cultivars (Citrus x paradisi) are the most sensitive among citrus to the effects ...
  • Challenges to planted forest health in developing economies 
    Hurley, Brett Phillip; Slippers, Bernard; Sathyapala, Shiroma; Wingfield, Michael J. (Springer, 2017-11)
    A number of strategies have been proposed to manage the increasing threat of insect pests to non-native plantation forests, but the implementation of these strategies can be especially challenging in developing economies, ...
  • The road to dog rabies control and elimination-what keeps us from moving faster? 
    Fahrion, Anna S.; Taylor, Louise H.; Torres, Gregorio; Muller, Thomas; Durr, Salome; Knopf, Lea; De Balogh, Katinka; Nel, Louis Hendrik; Gordoncillo, Mary Joy; Abela-Ridder, Bernadette (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2017-05-15)
    Rabies, a vaccine preventable neglected tropical disease, still claims an estimated 35,000–60,000 human lives annually. The international community, with more than 100 endemic countries, has set a global target of 0 human ...
  • The health impact of rabies in Haiti and recent developments on the path toward elimination, 2010–2015 
    Wallace, Ryan; Etheart, Melissa; Ludder, Fleurinord; Augustin, Pierre; Fenelon, Natael; Franka, Richard; Crowdis, Kelly; Dely, Patrick; Adrien, Paul; Pierre-Louis, J.; Osinubi, Modupe; Orciari, Lillian; Vigilato, Marco; Blanton, Jesse; Patel, Roopal; Lowrance, David; Liverdieu, Andrecy; Coetzer, Andre; Boone, John; Lindenmayer, Joanne; Millien, M. (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2017)
    Haiti, a Caribbean country of 10.5 million people, is estimated to have the highest burden of caninemediated human rabies deaths in the Western Hemisphere, and one of the highest rates of human rabies deaths in the world. ...
  • New species and records of bipolaris and curvularia from Thailand 
    Marin-Felix, Yasmina; Senwanna, C.; Cheewangkoon, R.; Crous, Pedro W. (Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 2017-10-18)
    Several Bipolaris and Curvularia spp. were collected from different disease symptoms of Poaceae in Thailand. Phylogenetic analyses based on DNA sequence data of the internal transcribed spacer region and intervening 5.8S ...
  • Ten new species of Macalpinomyces on Eriachne in northern Australia 
    Li, Ying-Ming; Shivas, Roger G.; McTaggart, Alistair R.; Zhao, Peng; Cai, Lei (Mycological Society of America, 2017-05-12)
    Macalpinomyces was established in 1977, with the type species M. eriachnes described from a specimen collected in northern Australia on the grass Eriachne sp. in 1855. Subsequently, M. eriachnes has been reported on more ...
  • Contrasting carbon metabolism in saprotrophic and pathogenic microascalean fungi from Protea trees 
    Aylward, Janneke; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Dreyer, Leanne Laurette; Roets, Francois; Wingfield, Michael J.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (Elsevier, 2017-12)
    Protea-associated Knoxdaviesia species grow on decaying inflorescences, yet are closely related to plant pathogens such as Ceratocystis albifundus. C. albifundus also infects Protea, but occupies a distinct niche. We ...
  • Distribution of diverse Escherichia coli between cattle and pasture 
    NandaKafle, Gitanjali; Seale, Tarren; Flint, Toby; Nepal, Madhav; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); Brözel, Volker Siegfried (The Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology, 2017-07-27)
    Escherichia coli is widely considered to not survive for extended periods outside the intestines of warm-blooded animals; however, recent studies demonstrated that E. coli strains maintain populations in soil and water ...
  • Generation of composite Persea americana (Mill.) (avocado) plants : a proof-of-concept study 
    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, ...
  • Bretziella, a new genus to accommodate the oak wilt fungus, Ceratocystis fagacearum (Microascales, Ascomycota) 
    De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Marincowitz, Seonju; Duong, Tuan A.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Pensoft Publishers, 2017-10)
    Recent reclassification of the Ceratocystidaceae (Microascales) based on multi-gene phylogenetic inference has shown that the oak wilt fungus Ceratocystis fagacearum does not reside in any of the four genera in which it ...
  • Phylogenetic revision of Camarosporium (Pleosporineae, Dothideomycetes) and allied genera 
    Wanasinghe, D.N.; Hyde, K.D.; Jeewon, R.; Crous, Pedro W.; Wijayawardene, N.N.; Jones, E.B.G.; Bhat, D.J.; Phillips, A.J.L.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias; Dayarathne, M.C.; Phukhamsakda, C.; Thambugala, K.M.; Bulgakov, T.S.; Camporesi, E.; Gafforov, Y.S.; Mortimer, P.E.; Karunarathna, S.C. (Fungal Biodiversity Centre (CBS), 2017-08-23)
    A concatenated dataset of LSU, SSU, ITS and tef1 DNA sequence data was analysed to investigate the taxonomic position and phylogenetic relationships of the genus Camarosporium in Pleosporineae (Dothideomycetes). Newly ...
  • Diversity, phylogeny and pathogenicity of Botryosphaeriaceae on nonnative Eucalyptus grown in an urban environment : a case study 
    Pavlic-Zupanc, Draginja; Maleme, Happy-girl Mamodise; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Slippers, Bernard (Elsevier, 2017-08)
    The Botryosphaeriaceae are opportunistic pathogens mostly of woody plants, including Eucalyptus. These fungi can cause cankers and die-back diseases on non-native Eucalyptus trees in South African plantations. Botryosphaeriaceae ...
  • Phylogenomic, pan-genomic, pathogenomic and evolutionary genomic insights into the agronomically relevant enterobacteria Pantoea ananatis and Pantoea stewartii 
    De Maayer, Pieter; Aliyu, Habibu; Vikram, Surendra; Blom, Jochem; Duffy, Brion; Cowan, Don A.; Smits, Theo H.M.; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); Coutinho, Teresa A. (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2017-09-14)
    Pantoea ananatis is ubiquitously found in the environment and causes disease on a wide range of plant hosts. By contrast, its sister species, Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii is the host-specific causative agent of the ...
  • Practically delineating bacterial species with genealogical concordance 
    Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); Palmer, Marike; Beukes, Chrizelle Winsie; Chan, Wai Yin; Shin, Giyoon; Van Zyl, Elritha; Seale, Tarren; Coutinho, Teresa A.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (Springer, 2017-10)
    Bacterial species are commonly defined by applying a set of predetermined criteria, including DNA–DNA hybridization values, 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, phenotypic data as well as genome-based criteria such as average ...
  • Visual symptom identification of grapevine leafroll-associated virus 3 in red berry cultivars supports virus management by roguing 
    Bell, V.A.; Blouin, A.G.; Cohen, D.; Hedderley, D.I.; Oosthuizen; Oosthuizen, T.; Spreeth, N.; Lester, P.J. (Edizioni ETS, 2017)
    Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 3 (GLRaV-3) is the most serious virus in New Zealand and South African vineyards. Its negative influence on berry development is reflected on wine quality, thus making GLRaV-3 control a ...
  • The Genera of Fungi—G3 : Aleurocystis, Blastacervulus, Clypeophysalospora, Licrostroma, Neohendersonia and Spumatoria 
    Giraldo, Alejandra; Crous, Pedro W.; Schumacher, Rene K.; Cheewangkoon, Ratchadawan; Ghobad-Nejhad, Masoomeh; Langer, Ewald (Springer, 2017-04)
    The current paper represents the third contribution in the Genera of Fungi series, linking the type species of fungal genera to their morphology and DNA sequence data, and, where possible, ecology. In this issue, we have ...
  • Seed treatment with selected plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria increases maize yield in the field 
    Breedt, Gerhard; Labuschagne, Nico; Coutinho, Teresa A. (Wiley, 2017-09)
    Maize, Zea mays is the most important grain crop in South Africa and is a staple food in many African countries. The beneficial effects of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria on crop growth and yield have been well ...