Browsing by UP Author "Wingfield, Michael J."

Browsing by UP Author "Wingfield, Michael J."

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  • The pathogenic potential of endophytic Botryosphaeriaceous fungi on Terminalia species in Cameroon 
    Begoude, Didier (Aime Didier B.); Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Michael J.; Roux, Jolanda (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
    In Cameroon, native Terminalia spp. represent an important component of the forestry industry, but limited information is available regarding the fungal pathogens that affect them. The Botryosphaeriaceae are endophytic ...
  • Pathogenicity and sporulation of Phytophthora pinifolia on Pinus radiata in Chile 
    Ahumada, Rodrigo; Rotella, Alessandro; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Michael J. (Springer, 2013)
    Phytophthora pinifolia causes the needle and shoot disease of Pinus radiata known as Daño Foliar del Pino (DFP) in Chile. The first pathogenicity trials with this organism utilized mycelial plugs placed on stem wounds. ...
  • Pathogenicity of Ceratocystis resinifera to Norway spruce 
    Krokene, Paal; Roux, Jolanda; Solheim, Halvor; Wingfield, Michael J. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010-10)
    The blue-stain fungus Ceratocystis resinifera colonizes wounds on living Picea spp. and other conifers in Europe and North America. Little is known regarding the pathogenicity of this fungus and consequently, four Norwegian ...
  • Pathogenicity of Chrysoporthe deuterocubensis on eucalypts in Indonesia 
    Tarigan, Marthin; Wingfield, Michael J.; Jami, Fahimeh; Marpaung, Yosep MAN; Durán, Alvaro; Pham, Nam Q. (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2024)
    Several economically important pathogens, including species of Chrysoporthe, pose a threat to the rapidly expanding eucalypt plantation industry in Southeast Asia. During 2019 disease surveys in Riau and Kalimantan ...
  • Pathologists and entomologists must join forces against forest pest and pathogen invasions 
    Jactel, Herve; Desprez-Loustau, Marie-Laure; Battisti, Andrea; Brockerhoff, Eckehard; Santini, Alberto; Stenlid, Jan; Bjorkman, Christer; Branco, Manuela; Dehnen-Schmutz, Katharina; Douma, Jacob C.; Drakulic, Jassy; Drizou, Fryni; Eschen, Rene; Franco, Jose Carlos; Gossner, Martin M.; Green, Samantha; Kenis, Marc; Klapwijk, Maartje J.; Liebhold, Andrew M.; Orazio, Christophe; Prospero, Simone; Robinet, Christelle; Schroeder, Martin; Slippers, Bernard; Stoev, Pavel; Sun, Jianghua; Van den Dool, Robbert; Wingfield, Michael J.; Zalucki, Myron P. (Pensoft Publishers, 2020-07-10)
    The world’s forests have never been more threatened by invasions of exotic pests and pathogens, whose causes and impacts are reinforced by global change. However, forest entomologists and pathologists have, for too long, ...
  • Patterns of Dothistroma septosporum conidial dispersal in Colombian Pinus tecunumanii plantations 
    Granados, Ginna Marcela; Rodas, C.; Vivas, Maria; Wingfield, Michael J.; Barnes, Irene (Wiley, 2023-12)
    Dothistroma needle blight (DNB) caused by Dothistroma septosporum is one of the most important needle diseases of Pinus spp., especially in Southern Hemisphere plantations. In Colombia, the pathogen has caused severe ...
  • Patterns of multiple virus infections in the conifer pathogenic fungi, Diplodia pinea and Diplodia scrobiculata 
    De Wet, Juanita; Preisig, Oliver; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Blackwell, 2008)
    Diplodia pinea and Diplodia scrobiculata are opportunistic pathogens associated with various disease symptoms on conifers that most importantly include die-back and stem cankers. Two viruses with dsRNA genomes, Sphaeropsis ...
  • Perception and knowledge of the Sirex woodwasp and other forest pests in South Africa 
    Hurley, Brett Phillip; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Michael J.; Dyer, Colin; Slippers, Jana (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-08)
    1. Sirex noctilio is one of the most serious invasive pests of pine. In South Africa, there has been a national effort to control S. noctilio, including an awareness campaign to increase awareness of the pest amongst the ...
  • Pheromone expression reveals putative mechanism of unisexuality in a saprobic ascomycete fungus 
    Wilson, Andrea M.; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Wilken, Pieter Markus; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D. (Public Library of Science, 2018-03)
    Homothallism (self-fertility) describes a wide variety of sexual strategies that enable a fungus to reproduce in the absence of a mating partner. Unisexual reproduction, a form of homothallism, is a process whereby a fungus ...
  • Phylogenetic and phylogenomic analyses reveal two new genera and three new species of ophiostomatalean fungi from termite fungus combs 
    Nel, Wilma Janine; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Wingfield, Michael J.; Poulsen, Michael; Aanen, Duur K.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Duong, Tuan A. (Taylor and Francis, 2021)
    The Ophiostomatales (Ascomycota) accommodates more than 300 species characterized by similar morphological adaptations to arthropod dispersal. Most species in this order are wood-inhabiting fungi associated with bark or ...
  • Phylogenetic lineages in Pseudocercospora 
    Crous, Pedro W.; Braun, Uwe; Hunter, Gavin Craig; Wingfield, Michael J.; Verkley, G.J.M.; Shin, H.D.; Nakashima, C.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias (Fungal Biodiversity Centre (CBS), 2013-06)
    Pseudocercospora is a large cosmopolitan genus of plant pathogenic fungi that are commonly associated with leaf and fruit spots as well as blights on a wide range of plant hosts. They occur in arid as well as wet environments ...
  • Phylogenetic lineages in the Botryosphaeriales : a systematic and evolutionary framework 
    Slippers, Bernard; Boissin, Emilie; Phillips, A.J.L.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias; Lombard, Lorenzo; Wingfield, Michael J.; Postma, Alisa; Burgess, Treena I.; Crous, Pedro W. (Cbs Publications, 2013-09-30)
    The order Botryosphaeriales represents several ecologically diverse fungal families that are commonly isolated as endophytes or pathogens from various woody hosts. The taxonomy of members of this order has been strongly ...
  • Phylogenetic relationships among biological species of Armillaria from China 
    Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Zhao, Jun; Van Coller, Sophia Johanna; Wingfield, Michael J. (Elsevier, 2015-09)
    Fourteen Chinese Biological Species (CBS) of Armillaria were previously identified in a collection of Chinese isolates. CBS C, F, G, H, J, L, N and O remained unnamed, while the remaining isolates included A. borealis, A. ...
  • Phylogenetic species recognition and hybridisation in Lasiodiplodia : a case study on species from baobabs 
    Cruywagen, Elsie M.; Slippers, Bernard; Roux, Jolanda; Wingfield, Michael J. (Elsevier, 2017-04)
    Lasiodiplodia species (Botryosphaeriaceae, Ascomycota) infect a wide range of typically woody plants on which they are associated with many different disease symptoms. In this study, we determined the identity of Lasiodiplodia ...
  • Phylogenomic incongruence in Ceratocystis : a clue to speciation? 
    Kanzi, Aquillah M.; Trollip, Conrad; Wingfield, Michael J.; Barnes, Irene; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Wingfield, Brenda D. (BioMed Central, 2020-05)
    BACKGROUND: The taxonomic history of Ceratocystis, a genus in the Ceratocystidaceae, has been beset with questions and debate. This is due to many of the commonly used species recognition concepts (e.g., morphological ...
  • Phylogeny and systematics of the genus Calonectria 
    Lombard, Lorenzo; Crous, Pedro W.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Cbs Publications / Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, 2010)
    Species of Calonectria are important plant pathogens, several of which have a worldwide distribution. Contemporary taxonomic studies on these fungi have chiefly relied on DNA sequence comparisons of the β-tubulin gene ...
  • Phylogeny and taxonomy of obscure genera of microfungi 
    Crous, Pedro W.; Braun, Uwe; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wood, A.R.; Shin, H.D.; Summerell, Brett A.; Alfenas, A.C.; Cumagun, C.J.R.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias (Nationaal Herbarium Nederland & Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, 2009)
    The recently generated molecular phylogeny for the kingdom Fungi, on which a new classification scheme is based, still suffers from an under representation of numerous apparently asexual genera of microfungi. In an attempt ...
  • Phylogeny and taxonomy of species in the Grosmannia serpens complex 
    Duong, Tuan A.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Mycological Society of America, 2011-11-28)
    Grosmannia serpens was first described from pine in Italy in 1936 and it has been recorded subsequently from many countries in both the northern and southern hemispheres. The fungus is vectored primarily by root-infesting ...
  • Phylogeny of ambrosia beetle symbionts in the genus Raffaelea 
    Dreaden, Tyler J.; Davis, John M.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Ploetz, Randy C.; Soltis, Pamela S.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Smith, Jason A (Elsevier, 2014-12)
    The genus Raffaelea was established in 1965 when the type species, Raffaelea ambrosia, a symbiont of Platypus ambrosia beetles was described. Since then, many additional ambrosia beetle symbionts have been added to the ...
  • Phytophthora pinifolia sp. nov. associated with a serious needle disease of Pinus radiata in Chile 
    Duran, Alvaro; Gryzenhout, Marieka; Slippers, Bernard; Ahumada, Rodrigo; Rotella, Alessandro; Flores, F.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Blackwell, 2008)
    During the course of the past three years, a new disease of Pinus radiata, referred to as 'Daño Foliar del Pino' (DFP) has appeared in the Arauco province of Chile and subsequently spread to other areas. The disease is ...