Van den Berg, Noelani; Swart, Velushka; Backer, Robert; Fick, Alicia; Wienk, Raven; Engelbrecht, Juanita; Prabhu, Sreedhara Ashok(MDPI, 2021-03-01)
AfricaAvocado (Persea americana) is an economically important fruit crop world-wide, the production of which is challenged by notable root pathogens such as Phytophthora cinnamomi and Rosellinia necatrix. Arguably the most ...
Joubert, Melissa; Backer, Robert; Engelbrecht, Juanita; Van den Berg, Noelani(Public Library of Science, 2021-07)
Phytophthora cinnamomi is a plant pathogenic oomycete that causes Phytophthora root rot
of avocado (PRR). Currently, there is a limited understanding of the molecular interactions
underlying this disease. Other Phytophthora ...
Backer, Robert; Naidoo, Sanushka; Van den Berg, Noelani(Frontiers Media, 2019-02-13)
The NONEXPRESSOR OF PATHOGENESIS-RELATED GENES 1 (NPR1) and related
NPR1-like proteins are a functionally similar, yet surprisingly diverse family of
transcription co-factors. Initially, NPR1 in Arabidopsis was identified ...
