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  • Fungi associated with Aizoaceae seed in the Succulent Karoo 
    Pieterse, Zelda; Aveling, T.A.S. (Terry); Jacobs, A. (International Society for Horticultural Science, 2018-06)
    The Aizoaceae, commonly known as mesembs or “ice plants”, is a plant family endemic to Namaqualand, an area inside the Succulent Karoo biodiversity hotspot in South Africa. The more than 1800 unique mesembs are in part ...
  • Fungi associated with black mould on baobab trees in southern Africa 
    Cruywagen, Elsie M.; Crous, Pedro W.; Roux, Jolanda; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Michael J. (Springer, 2015-05)
    There have been numerous reports in the scientific and popular literature suggesting that African baobab (Adansonia digitata) trees are dying, with symptoms including a black mould on their bark. The aim of this study ...
  • Fungi infecting woody plants : emerging frontiers 
    Crous, Pedro W.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 2018-05-18)
    Trees in natural forests and those managed in plantations of either native or non-native species are increasingly threatened by fungal diseases (Roy et al. 2014, Wingfield et al. 2015, Ghelardini et al. 2017). Typically, ...
  • Fusarium ananatum sp. nov. in the Gibberella fujikuroi species complex from pineapples with fruit rot in South Africa 
    Jacobs, Adriaana; Van Wyk, P.S. (Pieter Schalk), 1944-; Marasas, Walter F.O. (Walter Friedrich Otto); Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Coutinho, Teresa A. (Elsevier, 2010-07)
    Pineapple (Ananas comosus) is native to South America and widely planted as a fruit crop in the tropics and sub-tropics. This plant is susceptible to a number of fungal diseases of which the most severe is fusariosis. The ...
  • Fusarium mangiferae associated with mango malformation in the Sultanate of Oman 
    Kvas, Marija; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Al Adawi, Ali Obaid; Deadman, M.L.; Al Jahwari, A.A.; Marasas, Walter F.O. (Walter Friedrich Otto); Wingfield, Brenda D.; Ploetz, Randy C.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Springer, 2008)
    Mango malformation, caused by Fusarium mangiferae, represents the most important floral disease of mango. The first symptoms of this disease were noticed in the beginning of 2005 in plantations at Sohar in the Sultanate ...
  • Future outlook for Pinus patula in South Africa in the presence of the pitch canker fungus (Fusarium circinatum) 
    Mitchell, R.G. (Richard Glen); Coutinho, Teresa A.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Herbert, Martin; Wingfield, Michael J. (Taylor & Francis, 2012)
    Approximately 50% of the area planted to softwood trees in South Africa has been established with Pinus patula making it the most important pine species in the country. More effort has gone into developing this species ...
  • Gall thrips Acaciothrips ebneri (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) from Ethiopia, a promising biological control agent for prickly acacia in Australia 
    Dhileepan, K.; Shi, B.; Callander, J.; Teshome, M.; Neser, S. (Stefanus), 1942-; Senaratne, K.A.D.W. (Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 2018-04)
    Based on climatic and plant phenotype matching, native-range surveys were conducted in Ethiopia to identify prospective biological control agents for prickly acacia, a serious weed of grazing areas in northern Australia. ...
  • Gallocatechin biosynthesis via a flavonoid 3′,5′-hydroxylase is a defense response in Norway spruce against infection by the bark beetle-associated sap-staining fungus Endoconidiophora polonica 
    Hammerbacher, Almuth; Raguschke, Bettina; Wright, Louwrance P.; Gershenzon, Jonathan (Elsevier, 2018-04)
    One of the best-studied defense responses to fungal infection in Norway spruce (Picea abies) is the biosynthesis of flavan-3-ols, which accumulate as monomers or polymers known as proanthocyanidins. The individual flavan-3-ol ...
  • Ganoderma species, including new taxa associated with root rot of the iconic Jacaranda mimosifolia in Pretoria, South Africa 
    Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Marincowitz, Seonju; Muthelo, Vuledzani Gloria; Wingfield, Michael J. (International Mycological Association, 2015-06-22)
    Jacaranda mimosifolia trees have been progressively dying due to Ganoderma root and butt rot disease in Pretoria (the “City of Jacarandas”) for many years. Ganoderma austroafricanum was described from these trees previously ...
  • Gene cluster activation in a bacterial symbiont leads to halogenated angucyclic maduralactomycins and spirocyclic actinospirols 
    Guo, Huijuan; Schwitalla, Jan W.; Benndorf, Rene; Baunach, Martin; Steinbeck, Christoph; Goerls, Helmar; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Regestein, Lars; Beemelmanns, Christine (American Chemical Society, 2020-03)
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  • Gene expression associated with vegetative incompatibility in Amylostereum areolatum 
    Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Slippers, Bernard; Mongae, Aobakwe Oratile; Van Zyl, Karlien; Stenlid, J.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D. (Elsevier, 2011-11)
    In filamentous fungi, vegetative compatibility among individuals of the same species is determined by the genes encoded at the heterokaryon incompatibility (het) loci. The hyphae of genetically similar individuals that ...
  • The Genera of Fungi – G 4 : Camarosporium and Dothiora 
    Crous, Pedro W.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias (International Mycological Association, 2017-05-23)
    The current paper represents the fourth contribution in the Genera of Fungi series, linking type species of fungal genera to their morphology and DNA sequence data. The present paper focuses on two genera of microfungi, ...
  • The Genera of Fungi—G3 : Aleurocystis, Blastacervulus, Clypeophysalospora, Licrostroma, Neohendersonia and Spumatoria 
    Giraldo, Alejandra; Crous, Pedro W.; Schumacher, Rene K.; Cheewangkoon, Ratchadawan; Ghobad-Nejhad, Masoomeh; Langer, Ewald (Springer, 2017-04)
    The current paper represents the third contribution in the Genera of Fungi series, linking the type species of fungal genera to their morphology and DNA sequence data, and, where possible, ecology. In this issue, we have ...
  • Genera of phytopathogenic fungi : GOPHY 2 
    Marin-Felix, Yasmina; Hernández-Restrepo, M.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Akulov, A.; Carnegie, A.J.; Cheewangkoon, R.; Gramaje, D.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias; Guarnaccia, Vladimiro; Halleen, F.; Lombard, L.; Luangsa-ard, J.; Marincowitz, Seonju; Moslemi, A.; Mostert, L.; Quaedvlieg, W.; Schumacher, R.K.; Spies, C.F.J.; Thangavel, R.; Taylor, P.W.J.; Wilson, Andrea M.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wood, A.R.; Crous, Pedro W. (Elsevier, 2019-03)
    This paper represents the second contribution in the Genera of Phytopathogenic Fungi (GOPHY) series. The series provides morphological descriptions and information regarding the pathology, distribution, hosts and disease ...
  • Genera of phytopathogenic fungi : GOPHY 3 
    Marin-Felix, Yasmina; Hernandez-Restrepo, M.; Iturrieta-Gonzalez, I.; Garcia, D.; Gene, J.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias; Cai, L.; Chen, Q.; Quaedvlieg, W.; Schumacher, R.K.; Taylor, P.W.J.; Ambers, C.; Bonthond, G.; Edwards, J.; Krueger-Hadfield, S.A.; Luangsa-ard, J.J.; Morton, L.; Moslemi, A.; Sandoval-Denis, M.; Tan, Y.P.; Thangavel, R.; Vaghefi, N.; Cheewangkoon, R.; Crous, Pedro W. (Elsevier, 2019-03)
    This paper represents the third contribution in the Genera of Phytopathogenic Fungi (GOPHY) series. The series provides morphological descriptions, information about the pathology, distribution, hosts and disease symptoms ...
  • Genera of phytopathogenic fungi : GOPHY 4 
    Chen, Q.; Bakhshi, M.; Balci, Y.; Broders, K.D.; Cheewangkoon, R.; Chen, S.F.; Fan, X.L.; Gramaje, D.; Halleen, F.; Horta Jung, M.; Jiang, N.; Jung, T.; Majek, T.; Marincowitz, Seonju; Milenkovic, I.; Mostert, L.; Nakashima, C.; Nurul Faziha, I.; Pan, M.; Raza, M.; Scanu, B.; Spies, C.F.J.; Suhaizan, L.; Suzuki, Hiroyuki; Tian, C.M.; Tomsovsky, M.; Urbez-Torres, J.R.; Wang, W.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Yang, Q.; Yang, X.; Zare, R.; Zhao, P.; Groenewald, J.Z.; Cai, L.; Crous, Pedro W. (Elsevier, 2022-03)
    This paper is the fourth contribution in the Genera of Phytopathogenic Fungi (GOPHY) series. The series provides morphological descriptions and information about the pathology, distribution, hosts and disease symptoms, ...
  • Generation of composite Persea americana (Mill.) (avocado) plants : a proof-of-concept study 
    Prabhu, Sreedhara Ashok; Ndlovu, Buyani; Engelbrecht, Juanita; Van den Berg, Noelani (Public Library of Science, 2017-10-20)
    Phytophthora Root Rot in areas where the pathogen is prevalent. However, advances in molecular research are hindered by the lack of a high-throughput transient transformation system in this non-model plant. In this study, ...
  • Generic boundaries in the Ophiostomatales reconsidered and revised 
    De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Procter, M.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Marincowitz, Seonju; Duong, Tuan A. (Elsevier, 2022-03-30)
    The Ophiostomatales was erected in 1980. Since that time, several of the genera have been redefined and others have been described. There are currently 14 accepted genera in the Order. They include species that are the ...
  • Generic hyper-diversity in Stachybotriaceae 
    Lombard, L.; Houbraken, J.; Decock, C.; Samson, R.A.; Meijer, M.; Reblova, M.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias; Crous, Pedro W. (Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, 2016-04-29)
    The family Stachybotriaceae was recently introduced to include the genera Myrothecium, Peethambara and Stachybotrys. Members of this family include important plant and human pathogens, as well as several species used in ...
  • Genetic analysis among selected vernonia lines through seed oil content, fatty acids and RAPD DNA markers 
    Ramalema, S.P.; Shimelis, H.; Ncube, I.; Kunert, Karl J.; Mashela, Phatu W. (Academic Journals, 2010-01)
    Vernonia (Vernonia galamensis) is a new potential industrial oilseed crop. The seeds of this crop contain unusual naturally epoxidised fatty acids which are used in the production of various industrial products. The ...