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Browsing Research Articles (Plant Production and Soil Science) by UP Author "Berger, David Kenneth"
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Viljoen, Erika; Odeny, Damaris Achieng; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Berger, David Kenneth; Rees, David J.G. (Springer, 2018-04)Amaranthus species are an emerging and promising nutritious traditional vegetable food source. Morphological plasticity and poorly resolved dendrograms have led to the need for well resolved species phylogenies. We ...
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Berger, David Kenneth; Mokgobu, Tumisang; De Ridder, Katrien; Christie, Nanette; Aveling, T.A.S. (Terry) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-11-26)Maize underpins food security in South Africa. An annual production of more than 10 million tons is a combination of the output of large-scale commercial farms plus an estimated 250 000 ha cultivated by smallholder ...
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Swart, Velushka; Crampton, Bridget Genevieve; Ridenour, John B.; Bluhm, Burt H.; Olivier, Nicholas Abraham; Meyer, J.J. Marion; Berger, David Kenneth (American Phytopathological Society, 2017-09)Gray leaf spot (GLS), caused by the sibling species Cercospora zeina or Cercospora zeae-maydis, is cited as one of the most important diseases threatening global maize production. C. zeina fails to produce cercosporin in ...
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Wingfield, Brenda D.; Berger, David Kenneth; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Lim, Hye-Jin; Duong, Tuan A.; Bluhm, Burton H.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; De Vos, Lieschen; Fourie, Gerda; Naidoo, Kershney; Olivier, Nicholas Abraham; Lin, Yao-Cheng; Van de Peer, Yves; Joubert, Fourie; Crampton, Bridget Genevieve; Swart, Velushka; Soal, Nicole Christine; Tatham, Catherine; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Van Wyk, Stephanie; Wilken, Pieter Markus; Wingfield, Michael J. (International Mycological Association, 2017-11-21)The genomes of Cercospora zeina, Fusarium pininemorale, Hawksworthiomyces lignivorus, Huntiella decipiens, and Ophiostoma ips are presented in this genome announcement. Three of these genomes are from plant pathogens and ...
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Zwart, Lizahn; Berger, David Kenneth; Moleleki, Lucy Novungayo; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Myburg, Alexander Andrew; Naidoo, Sanushka (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-03)Eucalyptus species are cultivated for forestry and are of economic importance. The fungal stem canker pathogen Chrysoporthe austroafricana causes disease of varying severity on E. grandis. The Eucalyptus grandis-Chrysoporthe ...
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Read, David Alan; Featherstone, Jonathan; Rees, David Jasper Gilbert; Thompson, Genevieve Dawn; Roberts, Ronel; Flett, Bradley Charles; Mashingaidze, Kingston; Berger, David Kenneth; Welgemoed, Tanya; Pietersen, Gerhard; Schulze, Susanna Elizabeth; Kiula, Barnabas Anthony; Kullaya, Alois; Mbega, Ernest (Springer, 2019-02)Maize yellow mosaic virus (MaYMV) has been reported from China, Ecuador, Brazil and Burkino Faso on maize since 2016 and appears to be an emerging virus with a wide global distribution. Thirty-five maize samples with varying ...
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Wingfield, Brenda D.; Berger, David Kenneth; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Duong, Tuan A.; Martin, Anke; Pham, Nam Q.; Van den Berg, Noelani; Wilken, Pieter Markus; Arun‑Chinnappa, Kiruba Shankari; Barnes, Irene; Buthelezi, Sikelela; Dahanayaka, Buddhika Amarasinghe; Duran, Alvaro; Engelbrecht, Juanita; Feurtey, Alice; Fourie, Arista; Fourie, Gerda; Hartley, Jesse Marion Holland; Kabwe, Eugene N. K.; Maphosa, Mkhululi N.; Mensah, Deborah L. Narh; Nsibo, David L.; Potgieter, Lizel; Poudel, Barsha; Stukenbrock, Eva H.; Thomas, Chanel; Vaghefi, Niloofar; Welgemoed, Tanya; Wingfield, Michael J. (International Mycological Association, 2022-11-21)No abstract available.
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Mangwanda, Ronishree; Zwart, Lizahn; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Moleleki, Lucy N.; Berger, David Kenneth; Myburg, Alexander Andrew; Naidoo, Sanushka (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2016-12-08)Chrysoporthe austroafricana is a fungal pathogen that causes the development of stem cankers on susceptible Eucalyptus grandis trees. Clones of E. grandis that are partially resistant and highly susceptible have been ...
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Welgemoed, Tanya; Pierneef, Rian Ewald; Read, David Alan; Schulze, Susanna Elizabeth; Pietersen, Gerhard; Berger, David Kenneth (Springer, 2020-09)Maize yellow mosaic virus (MaYMV) is a single-stranded RNA polerovirus first identified in China. MaYMV was recently reported from West and East Africa, however it had not yet been reported from southern Africa. RNA-seq ...
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Welgemoed, Tanya; Pierneef, Rian Ewald; Sterck, Lieven; Van de Peer, Yves; Swart, Velushka; Scheepers, Kevin Daniel; Berger, David Kenneth (Frontiers Media, 2020-03-13)Gray leaf spot (GLS) disease in maize, caused by the fungus Cercospora zeina, is a threat to maize production globally. Understanding the molecular basis for quantitative resistance to GLS is therefore important for food ...
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Meyer, Jacqueline; Berger, David Kenneth; Christensen, Shawn A.; Murray, Shane L. (BioMed Central, 2017-11)BACKGROUND : Cercospora zeina is a foliar pathogen responsible for maize grey leaf spot in southern Africa that negatively impacts maize production. Plants use a variety of chemical and structural mechanisms to defend ...
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Aveling, T.A.S. (Terry); De Ridder, Katrien; Olivier, Nicholas Abraham; Berger, David Kenneth (Kassel University Press, 2020)Seed quality plays an important role in the establishment of healthy crop stands. The aim of this study was to identify the mycoflora associated with maize grain collected over two growing seasons, one experiencing severe ...
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Amuge, T.; Berger, David Kenneth; Katari, M.S.; Myburg, Alexander Andrew; Goldman, S.L.; Ferguson, M.E. (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-08-29)A time-course transcriptome analysis of two cassava varieties that are either resistant or susceptible to cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) was conducted using RNASeq, after graft inoculation with Ugandan cassava brown ...
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Human, Maria Petronella; Berger, David Kenneth; Crampton, Bridget Genevieve (Frontiers Media, 2020-03-20)Exserohilum turcicum (sexual stage Setosphaeria turcica) is the hemibiotrophic causal agent of northern leaf blight ofmaize and sorghum. This study aimed to identify the genes involved in host colonization during the ...
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