Browsing by UP Author "Wingfield, Michael J."

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  • Characterisation of the mating-type loci in species of Elsinoe causing scab diseases 
    Pham, Nam Q.; Duong, Tuan A.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Barnes, Irene; Duran, Alvaro; Wingfield, Michael J. (Elsevier, 2023-12)
    The genus Elsinoe includes many aggressive plant pathogens that infect various economically important agricultural, horticultural and forestry plants. Significant diseases include citrus scab caused by E. fawcettii and E. ...
  • Characterisation of Zimbabwean Armillaria using IGS-1 sequences and AFLP analysis 
    Wingfield, Brenda D.; Maphosa, L.; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Mwenje, E.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Kunming University of Science and Technology, P.R. China, 2009-01)
    Armillaria root and butt rot disease is a common problem in peach orchards, tea and pine plantations in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. The species of Armillaria causing this disease have not been fully identified but ...
  • Characterization of a novel dsRNA element in the pine endophytic fungus Diplodia scrobiculata 
    De Wet, Juanita; Bihon, Wubetu; Preisig, Oliver; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Springer, 2011-03)
    Diplodia scrobiculata and Diplodia pinea are endophytic fungi associated with dieback and cankers of mainly Pinus spp. in many parts of the world. These two fungi are closely related and have, in the past, been considered ...
  • Characterization of Botryosphaeriaceae from plantation-grown Eucalyptus species in South China 
    Chen, ShuaiFei; Pavlic-Zupanc, Draginja; Roux, Jolanda; Slippers, Bernard; Xie, YaoJian; Wingfield, Michael J.; Zhou, Xudong (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
    The Botryosphaeriaceae is a species-rich family that includes pathogens of a wide variety of trees, including Eucalyptus species. Symptoms typical of infection by the Botryosphaeriaceae have recently been observed in ...
  • Characterization of Phytophthora hybrids from ITS clade 6 associated with riparian ecosystems in South Africa and Australia 
    Nagel, Jan Hendrik; Gryzenhout, Marieka; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Michael J.; Hardy, Giles E. St. J.; Stukely, Michael J.C.; Burgess, Treena I. (Elsevier, 2013)
    Surveys of Australian and South African rivers revealed numerous Phytophthora isolates residing in clade 6 of the genus, with internal transcribed spacer (ITS) gene regions that were either highly polymorphic or ...
  • Characterization of the mating-type genes in Leptographium procerum and Leptographium profanum 
    Duong, Tuan A.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Elsevier, 2013-06)
    Leptographium procerum and the closely related species Leptographium profanum, are ascomycetes associated with root-infesting beetles on pines and hardwood trees, respectively. Both species occur in North America where ...
  • Characterization of the pitch canker fungus, Fusarium circinatum, from Chile 
    Jacobs, Adriaana; Coutinho, Teresa A.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Ahumada, Rodrigo; Wingfield, Brenda D. (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2007-05)
    Fusarium circinatum is the causal agent of the pine disease commonly referred to as pitch canker. During 2001, a Fusarium species was isolated from dying Pinus radiata clonal hedges in various forestry nurseries in Chile ...
  • Chemical signatures affecting host choice in the Eucalyptus herbivore, Gonipterus sp. (Curculionidae : Coleoptera) 
    Bouwer, Marc Clement; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Michael J.; Rohwer, Egmont Richard (Springer, 2014-10)
    It is well-known that herbivorous insects respond to host plant volatiles. Yet details of how these insects perceive the complex profile of volatiles from different potential host plants has not been studied for most ...
  • Chromium sequencing : the doors open for genomics of obligate plant pathogens 
    McTaggart, Alistair R.; Duong, Tuan A.; Le, Vang Quy; Shuey, Louise S.; Smidt, Werner; Naidoo, Sanushka; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D. (Future Medicine, 2018-11)
    It is challenging to sequence and assemble genomes of obligate plant pathogens and microorganisms because of limited amounts of DNA, comparatively large genomes and high numbers of repeat regions. We sequenced the 1.2 ...
  • Chrysoporthe brasiliensis sp. nov. pathogenic to Melastomataceae in southeast Brazil 
    Silva, G.A.; Oliveira, Mara Elisa Soares; Rego, Gessica Mylena Santana; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Ferreira, Maria Alves (Elsevier, 2024-05)
    Species in the Melastomataceae (Myrtales) include trees and woody shrubs that are amongst the most common hosts of Chrysoporthe and related fungi. These fungi cause stem cankers, branch death and in extreme cases, kill ...
  • Chrysoporthe puriensis sp. nov. from Tibouchina spp. in Brazil : an emerging threat to Eucalyptus 
    Oliveira, M.E.S.; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Soares, T.P.F.; Kanzi, Aquillah M.; Ferreira, M.A. (Springer, 2021-01)
    The discovery of Cryphonectriaceae and more specifically species related to the Eucalyptus canker pathogen Chrysoporthe cubensis on shrubs and trees in the Melastomataceae, has deepened our understanding of relevant, and ...
  • A class-wide phylogenetic assessment of Dothideomycetes 
    Schoch, C.L.; Crous, Pedro W.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias; Boehm, E.W.A.; Burgess, Treena I.; De Gruyter, J.; De Hoog, G. Sybren; Dixon, L.J.; Grube, M.; Gueidan, C.; Harada, Y.; Hatakeyama, S.; Hirayama, K.; Hosoya, T.; Huhndorf, S.M.; Hyde, Kevin D.; Jones, E.B.G.; Kohlmeyer, J.; Kruys, A.; Li, Y.M.; Lucking, R.; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten; Marvanova, L.; Mbatchou, J.S.; McVay, A.H.; Miller, A.N.; Mugambi, G.K.; Muggia, L.; Nelsen, M.P.; Nelson, P.; Owensby, C.A.; Phillips, A.J.L.; Phongpaichit, S.; Pointing, Stephen B.; Pujade-Renaud, V.; Raja, H.A.; Rivas Plata, E.; Robbertse, Barbara; Ruibal, C.; Sakayaroj, J.; Sano, T.; Selbmann, L.; Shearer, C.A.; Shirouzu, T.; Slippers, Bernard; Suetrong, S.; Tanaka, K.; Volkmannkohlmeyer, B.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wood, A.R.; Woudenberg, J.H.C.; Yonezawa, H.; Zhang, Yong; Spatafora, J.W. (Cbs Publications / Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, 2009)
    We present a comprehensive phylogeny derived from 5 genes, nucSSU, nucLSU rDNA, TEF1, RPB1 and RPB2, for 356 isolates and 41 families (six newly described in this volume) in Dothideomycetes. All currently accepted orders ...
  • Clonal structure of Ceratocystis manginecans populations from mango wilt disease in Oman and Pakistan 
    Al Adawi, Ali Obaid; Barnes, Irene; Khan, I.A.; Deadman, M.L.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Springer, 2014-07)
    Ceratocystis manginecans has recently been described from Oman and Pakistan where the fungus causes a serious wilt disease of mango. In both countries, the disease has moved rapidly throughout mango producing areas leading ...
  • Co-occurring species of Teratosphaeria on Eucalyptus 
    Crous, Pedro W.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias; Summerell, Brett A.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Nationaal Herbarium Nederland & Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, 2009)
    A common leaf spot disease occurring on Eucalyptus cladocalyx and E. lehmannii in the Western Cape Province of South Africa is known from literature to be caused by the fungus Coniothyrium ovatum, which is a pathogen native ...
  • Community composition and distribution of Phytophthora species across adjacent native and non-native forests of South Africa 
    Bose, Tanay; Wingfield, Michael J.; Roux, Jolanda; Vivas, Maria; Burgess, Treena I. (Elsevier, 2018-12)
    The diversity of Phytophthora species associated with various ecological niches is poorly understood. In this study, the community composition and distribution of Phytophthora species associated with non-native plantation ...
  • A comparison of control results for the alien invasive woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, in the southern hemisphere 
    Hurley, Brett Phillip; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Michael J. (Blackwell, 2007-08)
    1 Sirex noctilio has resulted in one of the most damaging biological invasions of pine forestry in the southern hemisphere. 2 An intensive, integrated control programme has been developed for this pest and is generally ...
  • Comparison of procedures to evaluate the pathogenicity of Ceratocystis fimbriata sensu lato isolates from Eucalyptus in South Africa 
    Van Wyk, Marelize; Heath, R.N. (Ronald Natale); Tarigan, Marthin; Vermeulen, Marcele; Wingfield, Michael J. (National Inquiry Services Centre (NISC), 2010-06)
    Ceratocystis fimbriata sensu lato (s.l.) is an important pathogen of Eucalyptus. Pathogenicity of isolates has typically been evaluated by inoculating seedlings under greenhouse conditions. It is, however, not clear how ...
  • Comparison of the tolerance of Pinus patula seedlings and established trees to infection by Fusarium circinatum 
    Mitchell, R.G. (Richard Glen); Wingfield, Michael J.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Roux, Jolanda; Verryn, Steve D.; Coutinho, Teresa A. (Taylor and Francis, 2014)
    Since the first appearance of Fusarium circinatum in South Africa in 1990, foresters have been challenged with poor field survival of seedlings at establishment. One of the best long-term solutions is to improve the genetic ...
  • Complementary symbiont contributions to plant decomposition in a fungus-farming termite 
    Poulson, Michael; Hu, Haofu; Li, Cai; Chen, Zhensheng; Xu, Luohao; Otani, Saria; Nygaard, Sanne; Nobre, Tania; Klaubauf, Sylvia; Schindler, Philipp M.; Hauser, Frank; Pan, Hailin; Yang, Zhikai; Sonnenberg, Anton S.M.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Zhang, Yong; Wingfield, Michael J.; Grimmelikhuijzen, Cornelis J.P.; De Vries, Ronald P.; Korb, Judith; Aanen, Duur K.; Wang, Jun; Boomsma, Jacobus J.; Zhang, Guojie (National Academy of Sciences, 2014)
    Termites normally rely on gut symbionts to decompose organic matter but the Macrotermitinae domesticated Termitomyces fungi to produce their own food. This transition was accompanied by a shift in the composition of the ...
  • Complete genetic linkage maps from an interspecific cross between Fusarium circinatum and Fusarium subglutinans 
    De Vos, Lieschen; Myburg, Alexander Andrew; Wingfield, Michael J.; Desjardins, Anne E.; Gordon, Thomas R. (Tom); Wingfield, Brenda D. (Elsevier, 2007-08)
    The Gibberella fujikuroi complex includes many plant pathogens of agricultural crops and trees, all of which have anamorphs assigned to the genus Fusarium. In this study, an interspecific hybrid cross between Gibberella ...