Browsing by UP Author "Wingfield, Michael J."

Browsing by UP Author "Wingfield, Michael J."

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  • A new wilt and die-back disease of Acacia mangium associated with Ceratocystis manginecans and C. acaciivora sp. nov. in Indonesia 
    Tarigan, Marthin; Roux, Jolanda; Van Wyk, Marelize; Tjahjono, Budi; Wingfield, Michael J. (Elsevier, 2010-09)
    Species of Ceratocystis are well-known wound related pathogens of many tree species, including commercially planted Acacia spp. Recently, several Ceratocystis isolates were collected from wilting A. mangium in plantations ...
  • Niche sharing reflects a poorly understood biodiversity 
    Crous, Pedro W.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias (Nationaal Herbarium Nederland & Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, 2009)
    Eucalyptus spp. are susceptible to a large number of foliar pathogens, some of which can cause serious defoliation and die-back. In this study, a single leaf spot on a Eucalyptus leaf collected in Madagascar revealed an ...
  • No to neocosmospora : phylogenomic and practical reasons for continued inclusion of the fusarium solani species complex in the genus fusarium 
    O’Donnell, Kerry; Al-Hatmi, Abdullah M.S.; Aoki, Takayuki; Brankovics, Balazs; Cano-Lira, Jose F.; Coleman, Jeffrey J.; De Hoog, G. Sybren; Di Pietro, Antonio; Frandsen, Rasmus J.N.; Geiser, David M.; Gibas, Connie F.C.; Guarro, Josep; Kim, Hye-Seon; Kistler, H. Corby; Laraba, Imane; Leslie, John F.; Lopez-Berges, Manuel S.; Lysoe, Erik; Meis, Jacques F.; Monod, Michel; Proctor, Robert H.; Rep, Martijn; Ruiz-Roldan, Carmen; Sisic, Adnan; Stajich, Jason E.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Summerell, Brett A.; Van der Lee, Theo A.J.; Van Diepeningen, Anne D.; Verweij, Paul E.; Waalwijk, Cees; Ward, Todd J.; Wickes, Brian L.; Wiederhold, Nathan P.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Zhang, Ning; Zhang, Sean X. (American Society for Microbiology, 2020-09-16)
    This article is to alert medical mycologists and infectious disease specialists of recent name changes of medically important species of the filamentous mold Fusarium. Fusarium species can cause localized and life-threating ...
  • Non-Mendelian segregation influences the infection biology and genetic structure of the African tree pathogen Ceratocystis albifundus 
    Lee, Dong Hyeon; Roux, Jolanda; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Elsevier, 2018-04)
    The African fungal tree pathogen, Ceratocystis albifundus, undergoes uni-directional mating type switching, giving rise to either self-fertile or self-sterile progeny. Self-sterile isolates lack the MAT1-2-1 gene and have ...
  • Novel associations between pathogens, insects and tree species threaten world forests 
    Wingfield, Michael J.; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Brenda D. (SCION, 2010-03)
    It is well recognised that pests and pathogens are increasingly threatening both natural woody ecosystems and plantation forestry world-wide. This threat is largely connected to the increasing movement of people and products ...
  • Novel Cryphonectriaceae from La Réunion and South Africa, and their pathogenicity on Eucalyptus 
    Ali, Daniel B.; Marincowitz, Seonju; Wingfield, Michael J.; Roux, Jolanda; Crous, Pedro W.; Taggart, Alistair R. (Springer, 2018-08)
    Fungi in the Cryphonectriaceae are important canker pathogens of plants in the Melastomataceae and Myrtaceae (Myrtales). These fungi are known to undergo host jumps or shifts. In this study, fruiting structures resembling ...
  • Novel Fusarium mutualists of two Euwallacea species infesting Acacia crassicarpa in Indonesia 
    Lynn, Kira Mary Theresa; Wingfield, Michael J.; Duran, Alvaro; Oliveira, Leonardo S.S.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Barnes, Irene (Taylor and Francis, 2021)
    Several species in the Euwallacea fornicatus complex have emerged as important pests of woody plants globally, particularly in habitats where they are invasive aliens. These beetles live in obligate symbioses with fungi ...
  • The novel Huntiella omanensis mating gene, MAT1-2-7, is essential for ascomatal maturation 
    Wilson, Andi M.; Wilken, Pieter Markus; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D. (Elsevier, 2020-04)
    Sexual reproduction is a highly conserved feature of the eukaryotes, yet sexual compatibility is determined by a wide variety of mechanisms. In ascomycete fungi, sexual development is controlled by genes at the mating type ...
  • Novel mating-type-associated genes and gene fragments in the genomes of Mycosphaerellaceae and Teratosphaeriaceae fungi 
    Aylward, Janneke; Havenga, Minette; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Dreyer, Leanne Laurette; Roets, Francois; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (Elsevier, 2022-06)
    The mating-type (MAT1) locus encodes transcription factors essential for the onset of the sexual cycle in ascomycete fungi. This locus has been characterised in only a few heterothallic, plant pathogenic Mycosphaerellaceae ...
  • Novel ophiostomatalean fungi from galleries of Cyrtogenius africus (Scolytinae) infesting dying Euphorbia ingens 
    Van der Linde, Johannes Alwyn; Six, Diana L.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Wingfield, Michael J.; Roux, Jolanda (Springer, 2016-04)
    Euphorbia ingens trees have been dying in large numbers in the Limpopo Province of South Africa for approximately 15 years. The ambrosia beetle Cyrtogenius africus is often found infesting diseased and dying trees. The ...
  • Novel species of Calonectria associated with Eucalyptus leaf blight in Southeast China 
    Chen, ShuaiFei; Lombard, Lorenzo; Roux, Jolanda; Xie, YaoJian; Wingfield, Michael J.; Zhou, Xudong (Nationaal Herbarium Nederland & Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, 2011-01)
    Leaf blight caused by Calonectria spp. is an important disease occurring on Eucalyptus trees grown in plantations of Southeast Asia. Symptoms of leaf blight caused by Calonectria spp. have recently been observed in commercial ...
  • Novel species of Celoporthe from Eucalyptus and Syzygium trees in China and Indonesia 
    Chen, ShuaiFei; Gryzenhout, Marieka; Roux, Jolanda; Xie, YaoJian; Wingfield, Michael J.; Zhou, Xudong (Mycological Society of America, 2011)
    Many species in the Cryphonectriaceae cause diseases of trees, including those in the genera Eucalyptus and Syzygium. During disease surveys on these trees in southern China, fruiting structures typical of fungi in the ...
  • Novel species of Huntiella from naturally-occurring forest trees in Greece and South Africa 
    Liu, FeiFei; Marincowitz, Seonju; Chen, ShuaiFei; Mbenoun, Michael; Tsopelas, Panaghiotis; Soulioti, Nikoleta; Wingfield, Michael J. (Pensoft Publishers, 2020-07-10)
    Huntiella species are wood-infecting, filamentous ascomycetes that occur in fresh wounds on a wide variety of tree species. These fungi are mainly known as saprobes although some have been associated with disease symptoms. ...
  • A novel species of Microsphaeropsis causing cankers on rafnia amplexicaulis in South Africa 
    Paap, Trudy; Marincowitz, Seonju; Pham, N.Q.; Roets, F.; Basson, R.J.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Oberlander, K.C. (Kenneth); Wingfield, Michael J. (Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, 2023-12)
    Cankers leading to branch, stem and plant death were observed on the South African endemic Rafnia amplexicaulis (Fabaceae) in the Cederberg Wilderness Area, South Africa, during September 2021. Conidiomatal pycnidia were ...
  • Novel species of Mycosphaerellaceae and Teratosphaeriaceae 
    Crous, Pedro W.; Summerell, Brett A.; Carnegie, Angus J.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias (National Herbarium of The Netherlands and the CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre, 2009)
    Recent phylogenetic studies based on multi-gene data have provided compelling evidence that the Mycosphaerellaceae and Teratosphaeriaceae represent numerous genera, many of which can be distinguished based on their anamorph ...
  • Novel taxa in the Fusarium fujikuroi species complex from Pinus spp. 
    Herron, Darryl A.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Rodas Pelaez, C.A. (Carlos Alberto); Marincowitz, Seonju; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (Fungal Biodiversity Centre (CBS), 2015-03)
    The pitch canker pathogen Fusarium circinatum has caused devastation to Pinus spp. in natural forests and non-natives in commercially managed plantations. This has drawn attention to the potential importance of Fusarium ...
  • Nursery-linked plantation outbreaks and evidence for multiple introductions of the pitch canker pathogen Fusarium circinatum into South Africa 
    Santana, Quentin C.; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (Wiley, 2016-04)
    In recent years, Pinus plantation forestry has been significantly hampered by outbreaks of pitch canker caused by the fungus Fusarium circinatum. In this study we investigated the role of Pinus host, geographic origin ...
  • Occurrence and pathogenicity of Neofusicoccum parvum and N. mangiferae on ornamental Tibouchina species 
    Heath, R.N. (Ronald Natale); Roux, Jolanda; Slippers, Bernard; Drenth, Andre; Pennycook, S.R.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
    Species in the Botryosphaeriaceae are important canker pathogens of woody plants, including Eucalyptus spp. The recent discovery of the Eucalyptus pathogen, Chrysoporthe austroafricana, on ornamental Tibouchina trees raised ...
  • One fungus, one name : defining the genus Fusarium in a scientifically robust way that preserves longstanding use 
    Geiser, David M.; Aoki, Takayuki; Bacon, Charles W.; Baker, Scott E.; Bhattacharyya, Madan K.; Brandt, Mary E.; Brown, Daren W.; Burgess, Lester W.; Chulze, Sofia; Coleman, Jeffrey J.; Correll, James C.; Covert, Sarah F.; Crous, Pedro W.; Cuomo, Christina A.; De Hoog, G. Sybren; Di Pietro, Antonio; Elmer, Wade H.; Frandsen, Rasmus J.; Freeman, Stanley; Gagkaeva, Tatiana; Glenn, Anthony E.; Gordon, Thomas R. (Tom); Gregory, Nancy F.; Hammond-Kosack, Kim E.; Hanson, Linda E.; Jímenez-Gasco, María del Mar; Kang, Seogchan; Kistler, H. Corby; Kuldau, Gretchen A.; Leslie, John F.; Logrieco, Antonio; Lu, Guozhong; Lysøe, Erik; Ma, Li-Jun; McCormick, Susan P.; Migheli, Quirico; Moretti, Antonio; Munaut, Françoise; O’Donnell, Kerry; Pfenning, Ludwig; Ploetz, Randy C.; Proctor, Robert H.; Rehner, Stephen A.; Robert, Vincent A.; Rooney, Alejandro P.; Bin Salleh, Baharuddin; Scandiani, Maria Mercedes; Scauflaire, Jonathan; Short, Dylan P.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Suga, Haruhisa; Summerell, Brett A.; Sutton, Deanna A.; Thrane, Ulf; Trail, Francis; Van Diepeningen, Anne; VanEtten, Hans D.; Viljoen, Altus; Waalwijk, Cees; Ward, Todd J.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Xu, Jin-Rong; Yang, Xiao-Bing; Yli-Mattila, Tapani; Zhang, Ning (The American Phytopathological Society, 2013)
    In this letter, we advocate recognizing the 89 genus Fusarium as the sole name 90 for a group that includes virtually all Fusarium species of importance in plant pathology, 91 mycotoxicology, medicine and basic research. ...
  • One fungus, which genes? Development and assessment of universal primers for potential secondary fungal DNA barcodes 
    Stielow, J.B.; Levesque, C.A.; Seifert, K.A.; Meyer, W.; Irinyi, L.; Smits, D.; Renfurm, R.; Verkley, G.J.M.; Groenewald, M.; Chaduli, D.; Lomascolo, A.; Welti, S.; Lesage-Meessen, L.; Favel, A.; Al-Hatmi, A.M.S.; Damm, U.; Yilmaz, Neriman; Houbraken, J.; Lombard, L.; Quaedvlieg, W.; Binder, M.; Vaas, L.A.I.; Vu, D.; Yurkov, A.; Begerow, D.; Roehl, O.; Guerreiro, M.; Fonseca, A.; Samerpitak, K.; van Diepeningen, A.D.; Dolatabadi, S.; Moreno, L.F.; Casaregola, S.; Mallet, S.; Jacques, Noémie; Roscini, L.; Egidi, E.; Bizet, C.; Garcia-Hermoso, D.; Martin, M.P.; Deng, S.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias; Boekhout, T.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Barnes, Irene; Duong, Tuan A.; Wingfield, Michael J.; De Hoog, G.S.; Crous, Pedro W.; Lewis, C.T.; Hambleton, S.; Moussa, T.A.A.; Al-Zahrani, H.S.; Almaghrabi, O.A.; Louis-Seize, G.; Assabgui, R.; McCormick, W.; Omer, G.; Dukik, K.; Cardinali, G.; Eberhardt, U.; De Vries, M.; Robert, V. (Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, 2015-08-28)
    The aim of this study was to assess potential candidate gene regions and corresponding universal primer pairs as secondary DNA barcodes for the fungal kingdom, additional to ITS rDNA as primary barcode. Amplification ...