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  • A review of viruses infecting yam (Dioscorea spp.) 
    Luo, Guo-Fu; Podolyan, Ana; Kidanemariam, Dawit B.; Pilotti, Carmel; Houliston, Gary; Sukal, Amit C. (MDPI, 2022-03-23)
    Yam is an important food staple for millions of people globally, particularly those in the developing countries of West Africa and the Pacific Islands. To sustain the growing population, yam production must be increased ...
  • Reviewing the taxonomy of Podaxis : opportunities for understanding extreme fungal lifestyles 
    Conlon, Benjamin H.; Aanen, Duur K.; Beemelmanns, Christine; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; De Fine Licht, Henrik H.; Gunde-Cimerman, Nina; Schiott, Morten; Poulsen, Michael (Elsevier, 2019-03)
    There are few environments more hostile and species-poor than deserts and the mounds of Nasutitermitinae termites. However, despite the very different adaptations required to survive in such extreme and different ...
  • Revising Clonostachys and allied genera in Bionectriaceae 
    Zhao, L.; Groenewald, J.Z.; Hernandez-Restrepo, M.; Schroers, H.-J.; Crous, Pedro W. (Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, 2023-06-12)
    Clonostachys (Bionectriaceae, Hypocreales) species are common soil-borne fungi, endophytes, epiphytes, and saprotrophs. Sexual morphs of Clonostachys spp. were placed in the genus Bionectria, which was further segregated ...
  • Rhizosphere bacterial interactions and impact on plant health 
    Chepsergon, Jane; Moleleki, Lucy N. (Elsevier, 2023-06)
    The rhizosphere is a chemically complex environment that harbors a strikingly diverse microbial community. The past few decades have seen a rapid growth in the body of literature on plant–microbe–microbe interactions ...
  • Rhizosphere diazotrophs and other bacteria associated with native and encroaching legumes in the succulent Karoo biome in South Africa 
    Muema, Esther K.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas) (MDPI, 2022-01-20)
    Total and diazotrophic bacteria were assessed in the rhizosphere soils of native and encroaching legumes growing in the Succulent Karoo Biome (SKB), South Africa. These were Calobota sericea, Lessertia diffusa, Vachellia ...
  • The RIPper, a web-based tool for genome-wide quantification of repeat-induced point (RIP) mutations 
    Van Wyk, Stephanie; Harrison, Christopher H.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; De Vos, Lieschen; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (PeerJ, 2019-08)
    BACKGROUND. The RIPper (http://theripper.hawk.rocks) is a set of web-based tools designed for analyses of Repeat-Induced Point (RIP) mutations in the genome sequences of Ascomycota. The RIP pathway is a fungal genome ...
  • The road to resistance in forest trees 
    Naidoo, Sanushka; Slippers, Bernard; Plett, Jonathan M.; Coles, Donovin; Oates, Caryn Nicole (Frontiers Media, 2019-03-29)
    In recent years, forests have been exposed to an unprecedented rise in pests and pathogens. This, coupled with the added challenge of climate change, renders forest plantation stock vulnerable to attack and severely limits ...
  • The role of citizen science in addressing grand challenges in food and agriculture research 
    Ryan, S.F.; Adamson, N.L.; Aktipis, A.; Andersen, L.K.; Austin, R.; Barnes, L.; Beasley, M.R.; Bedell, K.D.; Briggs, S.; Chapman, B.; Cooper, Caren B.; Corn, J.O.; Creamer, N.G.; Delborne, J.A.; Domenico, P.; Driscoll, E.; Goodwin, J.; Hjarding, A.; Hulbert, J.M. (Joey); Isard, S.; Just, M.G.; Kar Gupta, K.; López-Uribe, M.M.; O’Sullivan, J.; Landis, E.A.; Madden, A.A.; McKenney, E.A.; Nichols, L.M.; Reading, B.J.; Russell, S.; Sengupta, N.; Shapiro, L.R.; Shell, L.K.; Sheard, J.K.; Shoemaker, D.D.; Sorger, D.M.; Starling, C.; Thakur, S.; Vatsavai, R.R.; Weinstein, M.; Winfrey, P.; Dunn, R.R. (The Royal Society, 2018-11)
    The power of citizen science to contribute to both science and society is gaining increased recognition, particularly in physics and biology. Although there is a long history of public engagement in agriculture and food ...
  • The role of deterministic succession during forest development within a southern African savanna 
    Jamison-Daniels, Samantha-Leigh; Kissling, W. Daniel; Botha, Monique; Harris, Mathew Andrew; Gordon, Christopher E.; Greve, Michelle (Wiley, 2021-03)
    Woody encroachment can lead to a switch from open savannas to dense woodlands or forests. This has implications for both the composition of ecological communities and the provision of ecosystem services such as nutrient ...
  • Role of fixing nitrogen in common bean growth under water deficit conditions 
    Fenta, Berhanu Amsalu; Beebe, Stephen E.; Kunert, Karl J. (Wiley Open Access, 2020-02)
    In common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L), limited information is available if potential of nodulation and symbiotic nitrogen fixation is associated with the expression of traits that confer better adaptation to drought ...
  • The role of phytopathogenicity in bark beetle-fungus symbioses : a challenge to the classic paradigm 
    Six, Diana L.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Annual Reviews, 2011-01)
    The idea that phytopathogenic fungi associated with tree-killing bark beetles are critical for overwhelming tree defenses and incurring host tree mortality, herein called the classic paradigm (CP), has driven research on ...
  • Roles of plant volatiles in defence against microbial pathogens and microbial exploitation of volatiles 
    Hammerbacher, Almuth; Coutinho, Teresa A.; Gershenzon, Jonathan (Wiley, 2019-10)
    Plants emit a large variety of volatile organic compounds during infection by pathogenic microbes, including terpenes, aromatics, nitrogen‐containing compounds, and fatty acid derivatives, as well as the volatile plant ...
  • Root exudate compounds change the bacterial community in bulk soil 
    Afzal, Muhammad Yasir; Das, Bikram K.; Valappil, Vishnu Thayil; Scaria, Joy; Brözel, Volker Siegfried (Elsevier, 2024-06)
    The soil bacteria are diverse in nature both physiologically and phylogenetically with spatial variations within the soil microenvironments. Plant roots secrete organic substances called root exudates which benefit bacteria ...
  • Roots and nodules response differently to P starvation in the Mediterranean-type legume Virgilia divaricata 
    Stevens, Gary G.; Perez-Fernandez, María A.; Morcillo, Rafael J.L.; Kleinert, Aleysia; Hills, Paul; Brand, D. Jacobus; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Valentine, Alex J. (Frontiers Media, 2019-02-05)
    Virgilia divaricata is a tree legume that grows in the Cape Floristic Region (CFA) in poor nutrient soils. A comparison between high and low phosphate growth conditions between roots and nodules was conducted and evaluated ...
  • Rosellinia necatrix infection induces differential gene expression between tolerant and susceptible avocado rootstocks 
    Zumaquero, Adela; Martınez-Ferri, Elsa; Matas, Antonio J.; Reeksting, Bianca J.; Olivier, Nicholas Abraham; Pliego-Alfaro, Fernando; Barcelo, Araceli; Van den Berg, Noelani (Public Library of Science, 2019-02)
    Rosellinia necatrix is the causal agent of avocado white root rot (WRR). Control of this soilborne disease is difficult, and the use of tolerant rootstocks may present an effective method to lessen its impact. To date, ...
  • Rust infection of black poplar trees reduces photosynthesis but does not affect isoprene biosynthesis or emission 
    Eberl, Franziska; Perreca, Erica; Vogel, Heiko; Wright, Louwrance P.; Hammerbacher, Almuth; Veit, Daniel; Gershenzon, Jonathan; Unsicker, Sybille B. (Frontiers Media, 2018-11)
    Poplar (Populus spp.) trees are widely distributed and play an important role in ecological communities and in forestry. Moreover, by releasing high amounts of isoprene, these trees impact global atmospheric chemistry. One ...
  • Salicylic acid activates poplar defense against the biotrophic rust fungus Melampsora larici-populina via increased biosynthesis of catechin and proanthocyanidins 
    Ullah, Chhana; Tsai, Chung-Jui; Unsicker, Sybille B.; Xue, Liangjiao; Reichelt, Michael; Gershenzon, Jonathan; Hammerbacher, Almuth (Wiley, 2019-01)
    Poplar trees synthesize flavan-3-ols (catechin and proanthocyanidins) as a defense against foliar rust fungi, but the regulation of this defense response is poorly understood. Here, we investigated the role of hormones ...
  • Sampling and detection strategies for the pine pitch canker (PPC) disease pathogen Fusarium circinatum in Europe 
    Vainio, Eeva J.; Bezos, Diana; Bragança, Helena; Cleary, Michelle; Gerda Fourie; Georgieva, Margarita; Ghelardini, Luisa; Hannunen, Salla; Ioos, Renaud; Martín-García, Jorge; Martinez-Alvarez, Pablo; Mullett, Martin S.; Oszako, Tomasz; Papazova-Anakieva, Irena; Piskur, Barbara; Romeralo, Carmen; Sanz-Ros, Antonio V.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Tubby, Katherine; Wingfield, Michael J.; Diez, Julio J. (MDPI Publishing, 2019-09)
    Fusarium circinatum Nirenberg & O’Donnel is listed among the species recommended for regulation as quarantine pests in Europe. Over 60 Pinus species are susceptible to the pathogen and it also causes disease on Douglas-fir ...
  • Saprophytic and pathogenic fungi in the Ceratocystidaceae differ in their ability to metabolize plant-derived sucrose 
    Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; McTaggart, Alistair R.; Trollip, Conrad; Godlonton, T.; Sauerman, E.; Roodt, Danielle; Naidoo, Kershney; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Wilken, Pieter Markus; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D. (BioMed Central, 2015-12-07)
    BACKGROUND : Proteins in the Glycoside Hydrolase family 32 (GH32) are carbohydrate-active enzymes known as invertases that hydrolyse the glycosidic bonds of complex saccharides. Fungi rely on these enzymes to gain access ...
  • Sciarid pests (Diptera: Sciaridae) from undercover crop production in South Africa 
    Katumanyane, Agil; Kanzi, Aquillah M.; Malan, Antoinette P. (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2020-03)
    Fungus gnats (sciarids) are among the most important pests in undercover crop production. They cause direct physical damage to plant roots, transfer fungal pathogens and create entry points for soil-borne plant pathogens. ...