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  • The mating system of the Eucalyptus canker pathogen Chrysoporthe austroafricana and closely related species 
    Kanzi, Aquillah M.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Wingfield, Brenda D. (Elsevier, 2019-02)
    Fungi in the genus Chrysoporthe are economically important canker pathogens of commercially grown Eucalyptus species and native Myrtales. Before the current study, homothallism was widely accepted as the mating system of ...
  • Mechanisms that influence sex ratio variation in the invasive hymenopteran Sirex noctilio in South Africa 
    Queffelec, Josephine; Wooding, Amy L.; Greeff, Jaco M. (Jacobus Maree); Garnas, Jeffrey R.; Hurley, Brett Phillip; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Slippers, Bernard (Wiley Open Access, 2019-07)
    Sirex noctilio is an economically important invasive pest of commercial pine forestry in the Southern Hemisphere. Newly established invasive populations of this woodwasp are characterized by highly male‐biased sex ratios ...
  • Metabarcoding of the kombucha microbial community grown in different microenvironments 
    Reva, Oleg N.; Zaetz, I.E.; Ovcharenko, L.P.; Kukharenko, Olga E.; Shpylova, Switlana P.; Podolich, Olga V.; De Vera, J.-P.; Kozyrovska, Natalia (BioMed Central, 2015-12)
    Introducing of the DNA metabarcoding analysis of probiotic microbial communities allowed getting insight into their functioning and establishing a better control on safety and efficacy of the probiotic communities. In ...
  • Metabolic and evolutionary patterns in the extremely acidophilic archaeon Ferroplasma acidiphilum YT 
    Golyshina, Olga V.; Tran, Hai; Reva, Oleg N.; Lemak, Sofia; Yakunin, Alexander F.; Goesmann, Alexander; Nechitaylo, Taras Y.; LaCono, Violetta; Smedile, Francesco; Slesarev, Alexei; Rojo, David; Barbas, Coral; Ferrer, Manuel; Yakimov, Michail M.; Golyshin, Peter N. (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-06-16)
    Ferroplasmaceae represent ubiquitous iron-oxidising extreme acidophiles with a number of unique physiological traits. In a genome-based study of Ferroplasma acidiphilum YT, the only species of the genus Ferroplasma with ...
  • Metabolomic fingerprinting of potato cultivars differing in susceptibility to Spongospora subterranea f. sp. subterranea root infection 
    Lekota, Moleboheng; Modisane, Kehumile J.; Apostolides, Zeno; Van der Waals, Jacqueline Elise (MDPI Publishing, 2020-05-27)
    Plants defend themselves from pathogens by producing bioactive defense chemicals. The biochemical mechanisms relating to quantitative resistance of potato to root infection by Spongospora subterranea f. sp. subterranea ...
  • Metabolomics for a millenniums-old crop : tea plant (Camellia sinensis) 
    Jiang, Chen-Kai; Ma, Jian-Qiang; Apostolides, Zeno; Chen, Liang (American Chemical Society, 2019-05)
    Tea cultivation and utilization dates back to antiquity. Today it is the most widely consumed beverage on earth due to its pleasant taste and several beneficial health properties attributed to specific metabolites. ...
  • Metabonomic analysis of HIV-infected biofluids 
    Sitole, Lungile J.; Williams, Aurelia Alvina; Meyer, Debra (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013)
    Monitoring the progression of HIV infection to full-blown acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and assessing responses to treatment will benefit greatly from the identification of novel biological markers especially ...
  • Metallodrug induced apoptotic cell death and survival attempts are characterizable by Raman spectroscopy 
    Le Roux, Karlien; Prinsloo, Linda Charlotta; Meyer, Debra (American Institute of Physics, 2014)
    Chrysotherapeutics are under investigation as new or additional treatments for different types of cancers. In this study, gold complexes were investigated for their anticancer potential using Raman spectroscopy. The aim ...
  • Methicillin-resistant staphylococci among school children in Mariental, Namibia 
    Walter, Sunette; Beukes, Mervyn; Mumbengegwi, Davis; Bock, Ronnie (Elsevier, 2022-03)
    Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is resistant to beta-lactam antibiotics, while some strains are multi-drug resistant and may produce disease-causing toxins. Drug resistant strains are often responsible ...
  • Microanalytical techniques for phenotyping secondary xylem 
    Karannagoda, Nadeeshani; Spokevicius, Antanas; Hussey, Steven Grant; Bossinger, Gerd (Brill, 2020-07)
    The products of secondary xylem are of significant biological and commercial importance, and as a result, the biology of secondary growth and how intrinsic and extrinsic factors influence this process have been the subject ...
  • Microarray analysis of a pyrethroid resistant African malaria vector, Anopheles funestus, from southern Africa 
    Christian, Riann N.; Strode, C.; Ranson, H.; Coetzer, Nanette; Coetzee, M.; Koekemoer, Lizette L. (Elsevier, 2011-02)
    Anopheles funestus is one of the major malaria vectors in southern Africa and several populations in this region are resistant to pyrethroids. The current study uses a microarray based approach to identify genes up-regulated ...
  • Microbial nitrogen cycling in antarctic soils 
    Ortiz, Maximiliano; Bosch, Jason; Coclet, Clement; Johnson, Jenny; Lebre, Pedro H.; Salawu-Rotimi, Adeola; Vikram, Surendra; Makhalanyane, Thulani P.; Cowan, Don A. (MDPI, 2020-09)
    The Antarctic continent is widely considered to be one of the most hostile biological habitats on Earth. Despite extreme environmental conditions, the ice-free areas of the continent, which constitute some 0.44% of the ...
  • Microbial nitrogen metabolism in chloraminated drinking water reservoirs 
    Potgieter, Sarah; Dai, Zihan; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); Sigudu, Makhosazana; Pinto, Ameet J. (American Society for Microbiology, 2020-04)
    Ammonia availability due to chloramination can promote the growth of nitrifying organisms, which can deplete chloramine residuals and result in operational problems for drinking water utilities. In this study, we used a ...
  • Microbial removal of Pb(II) using an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor 
    Chimhundi, Jeremiah; Horstmann, Carla; Chirwa, Evans M.N.; Brink, Hendrik Gideon (MDPI, 2021-04)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Microbiomics of Namib Desert habitats 
    Cowan, Don A.; Hopkins, D.W.; Jones, B.E.; Maggs-Kolling, G.; Majewska, R.; Ramond, Jean-Baptiste (Springer, 2020-01)
    The Namib Desert is one of the world’s only truly coastal desert ecosystem. Until the end of the 1st decade of the twenty-first century, very little was known of the microbiology of this southwestern African desert, with ...
  • Mid-ATR-FTIR spectroscopic profiling of HIV/AIDS sera for novel systems diagnostics in global health 
    Sitole, Lungile J.; Steffens, Francois E.; Kruger, T.P.J. (Tjaart); Meyer, Debra (Mary Ann Liebert, 2014)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Mild water stress-induced priming enhance tolerance to Rosellinia necatrix in susceptible avocado rootstocks 
    Martínez-Ferri, E.; Moreno-Ortega, G.; Van den Berg, Noelani; Pliego, C. (BioMed Central, 2019-11-29)
    BACKGROUND : White root rot (WRR) disease caused by Rosellinia necatrix is one of the most important threats affecting avocado orchards in temperate regions. The eradication of WRR is a difficult task and environmentall ...
  • Minimal standards for the description of new genera and species of rhizobia and agrobacteria 
    De Lajudie, Philippe M.; Andrews, Mitchell; Ardley, Julie; Eardly, Bertrand; Jumas-Bilak, Estelle; Kuzmanovic, Nemanja; Lassalle, Florent; Lindstrom, Kristina; Mhamdi, Ridha; Martinez-Romero, Esperanza; Moulin, Lionel; Mousavi, Seyed Abdollah; Nesme, Xavier; Peix, Alvaro; Pulawska, Joanna; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Stepkowski, Tomasz; Tian, Chang-Fu; Vinuesa, Pablo; Wei, Gehong; Willems, Anne; Zili, Jerri; Young, Peter (Microbiology Society, 2019-05)
    Herein the members of the Subcommittee on Taxonomy of Rhizobia and Agrobacteria of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes review recent developments in rhizobial and agrobacterial taxonomy and propose ...
  • Mitochondrial genes from 18 angiosperms fill sampling gaps for phylogenomic inferences of the early diversification of flowering plants 
    Xue, Jia-Yu; Dong, Shan-Shan; Wang, Ming-Qiang; Song, Tian-Qiang; Zhou, Guang-Can; Li, Zhen; Van de Peer, Yves; Shao, Zhu-Qing; Wang, Wei; Chen, Min; Zhang, Yan-Mei; Sun, Xiao-Qin; Chen, Hong-Feng; Zhang, Yong-Xia; Zhang, Shou-Zhou; Chen, Fei; Zhang, Liang-Sheng; Cox, Cymon; Liu, Yang; Wang, Qiang; Hang, Yue-Yu (Wiley, 2022-07)
    The early diversification of angiosperms is thought to have been a rapid process, which may complicate phylogenetic analyses of early angiosperm relationships. Plastid and nuclear phylogenomic studies have raised several ...
  • Mitochondrial introgression and interspecies recombination in the Fusarium fujikuroi species complex 
    Fourie, Gerda; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Wingfield, Brenda D.; Bogale, Mesfin Azene; Wingfield, Michael J.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (International Mycological Association, 2018-02-27)
    The Fusarium fujikuroi species complex (FFSC) is an economically important monophyletic lineage in the genus Fusarium. Incongruence observed among mitochondrial gene trees, as well as the multiple non-orthologous copies of ...