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  • 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. ...
  • Metagenomic analysis of bacterial diversity of Siloam hot water spring, Limpopo, South Africa 
    Tekere, Memory; Lotter, Adele; Olivier, J. (Jana), 1948-; Jonker, Nelia; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas) (Academic Journals, 2011-12-07)
    The bacterial diversity of Siloam hot water spring was determined using 454 pyrosequencing of two 16S rRNA variable regions V1-3 and V4-7. Analysis of the community DNA revealed that the phyla Proteobacteria, Cyanobacteria, ...
  • Metaviromes of extracellular soil viruses along a Namib Desert aridity gradient 
    Zablocki, Olivier; Adriaenssens, Evelien M.; Frossard, Aline; Seely, Mary; Ramond, Jean-Baptiste; Cowan, Don A. (American Society for Microbiology, 2017-01-12)
    The Namib Desert in southwest Africa is hyperarid and composed of distinct microbial communities affected by a longitudinal aridity gradient. Here, we report four soil metaviromes from the Namib Desert, assessed using ...
  • Micro- and macrospatial scale analyses illustrates mixed mating strategies and extensive geneflow in populations of an invasive haploid pathogen 
    Perez, Guillermo; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Hunter, Gavin Craig; Wingfield, Michael J. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010-05)
    Sexual reproduction in fungi involves either a single individual (selfing) or two individuals (outcrossing). To investigate the roles that these two strategies play in the establishment of an invasive alien pathogen, the ...
  • 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 ...
  • Microbial community study of the iron ore concentrate of the Sishen Iron Ore Mine, South Africa 
    Williams, Peter J.; Cloete, T.E. (Thomas Eugene), 1958- (Springer, 2008-11)
    As a result of the advancing global technologies and civilisation, there has been a progressive depletion of high-grade mineral deposits. Consequently, it has become increasingly important to process lower-grade ores. ...
  • Microbial nitrogen cycling in antarctic soils 
    Ortiz, Maximiliano; Bosch, Jason; Coclet, Clement; Johnson, Jenny; Lebre, Pedro H.; Salawu-Rotimi, Adeola; Vikram, Surendra; Makhalanyane, Thulani Peter; 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.
  • Microbiological survey of open recirculating cooling water systems and their raw water supplies at twelve fossil-fired power stations 
    Poulton, W.I.J.; Cloete, T.E. (Thomas Eugene), 1958-; Von Holy, A. (Water Research Council, 1995-07)
    Raw water supplies utilised at 12 fossil-fired power stations, as well as the corresponding open recirculating cooling water systems were surveyed. Visual inspections were carried out and the total aerobic and anaerobic ...
  • 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 ...
  • MicroRNA-mediated post-transcriptional regulation of Pinus pinaster response and resistance to pinewood nematode 
    Modesto, Ines; Inacio, Vera; Van de Peer, Yves; Miguel, Celia (Nature Research, 2022-03-25)
    Pine wilt disease (PWD), caused by the parasitic nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, or pinewood nematode (PWN), is a serious threat to pine forests in Europe. Pinus pinaster is highly susceptible to the disease and it ...
  • Microsatellite and mating type markers reveal unexpected patterns of genetic diversity in the pine root-infecting fungus Grosmannia alacris 
    Duong, Tuan A.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Eckhardt, Lori G.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Wiley, 2015-02)
    Grosmannia alacris is a fungus commonly associated with root-infesting bark beetles occurring on Pinus spp. The fungus has been recorded in South Africa, the USA, France, Portugal and Spain and importantly, has been ...
  • Migration, prospecting, dispersal? What host movement matters for infectious agent circulation? 
    Boulinier, Thierry; Kada, Sarah; Ponchon, Aurore; Dupraz, Marlène; Dietrich, Muriel; Gamble, Amandine; Bourret, Vincent; Duriez, Olivier; Bazire, Romain; Tornos, Jérémy; Tveraa, Torkild; Chambert, Thierry; Garnier, Romain; McCoy, Karen (Oxford University Press, 2016-06)
    Spatial disease ecology is emerging as a new field that requires the integration of complementary approaches to address how the distribution and movements of hosts and parasites may condition the dynamics of their ...
  • 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 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 ...
  • Mixta gen. nov., a new genus in the Erwiniaceae 
    Palmer, Marike; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Avontuur, Juanita R.; Chan, Wai Yin; Van Zyl, Elritha; Blom, Jochen; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas) (Microbiology Society, 2018-04)
    The Erwiniaceae contain many species of agricultural and clinical importance. Although relationships among most of the genera in this family are relatively well resolved, the phylogenetic placement of several taxa remains ...
  • Mobilisation of potassium and phosphorus from iron ore by ectomycorrhizal fungi 
    Adeleke, Rasheed Adegbola; Cloete, T.E. (Thomas Eugene), 1958-; Bertrand, Annick; Khasa, Damase P. (Springer, 2010-03)
    Mutualistic roles of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi have been linked to their ability to produce organic acids that aid in the dissolution of insoluble minerals in the rhizosphere. This ability of ECM fungi was utilised to ...
  • Model-based detection of whole-genome duplications in a phylogeny 
    Zwaenepoel, Arthur; Van de Peer, Yves (Oxford University Press, 2020-09)
    Ancient whole-genome duplications (WGDs) leave signatures in comparative genomic data sets that can be harnessed to detect these events of presumed evolutionary importance. Current statistical approaches for the detection ...