Browsing Research Articles (Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI)) by Title

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  • Natalenamides A–C, cyclic tripeptides from the termite-associated actinomadura sp. RB99 
    Lee, Seoung Rak; Lee, Dahae; Yu, Jae Sik; Benndorf, René; Lee, Sullim; Lee, Dong-Soo; Huh, Jungmoo; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Kim, Yong Ho; Beemelmanns, Christine; Kang, Ki Sung; Kim, Ki Hyun (MDPI, 2018-11)
    In recent years, investigations into the biochemistry of insect-associated bacteria have increased. When combined with analytical dereplication processes, these studies provide a powerful strategy to identify structurally ...
  • A native fungal symbiont facilitates the prevalence and development of an invasive pathogen-native vector symbiosis 
    Zhao, Lilin; Lu, Min; Niu, Hongtao; Fang, Guofei; Zhao, Shuai; Sun, Jiang-Hua (Ecological Society of America, 2013)
    Invasive pathogen–insect symbioses have been extensively studied in many different ecological niches. Whether the damage of symbioses in different introduced regions might be influenced by other microorganisms has, ...
  • Natural products from Actinobacteria associated with fungus-growing termites 
    Benndorf, Rene; Guo, Huijuan; Sommerwerk, Elisabeth; Weigel, Christiane; Garcia-Altares, Maria; Martin, Karin; Hu, Haofu; Kufner, Michelle; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Poulsen, Michael; Beemelmanns, Christine (MDPI Publishing, 2018-09-13)
    The chemical analysis of insect-associated Actinobacteria has attracted the interest of natural product chemists in the past years as bacterial-produced metabolites are sought to be crucial for sustaining and protecting ...
  • Needle blight of pine caused by two species of Dothistroma in Hungary 
    Barnes, Irene; Kirisits, Thomas; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
    Dothistroma septosporum and D. pini cause the serious pine needle disease, Dothistroma needle blight (DNB). Of these, D. septosporum has a global distribution, while D. pini is known only from the USA, Russia, Ukraine and ...
  • New and interesting fungi. 4 
    Crous, Pedro W.; Hernandez-Restrepo, H.; Schumacher, R.K.; Cowan, Don A.; Maggs-Kolling, G.; Marais, E.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Yilmaz, Neriman; Adan, O.C.G.; Akulov, A.; Alvarez Duarte, E.; Berraf-Tebbal, A.; Bulgakov, T.S.; Carnegie, A.J.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Decock, C.; Dijksterhuis, J.; Duong, Tuan A.; Eichmeier, A.; Hien, L.T.; Houbraken, J.A.M.P.; Khanh, T.N.; Liem, N.V.; Lombard, L.; Lutzoni, F.M.; Miadlikowska, J.M.; Nel, Wilma Janine; Pascoe, I.G.; Roets, F.; Roux, Jolanda; Samson, R.A.; Shen, M.; Spetik, M.; Thangavel, R.; Thanh, H.M.; Thao, L.D.; Van Nieuwenhuijzen, E.J.; Zhang, J.Q.; Zhang, Y.; Zhao, L.L.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias (Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, 2021-04-28)
    An order, family and genus are validated, seven new genera, 35 new species, two new combinations, two epitypes, two lectotypes, and 17 interesting new host and / or geographical records are introduced in this study. Validated ...
  • New and rare coelomycetes with appendage-bearing conidia from Pondoland, South Africa 
    Marincowitz, Seonju; Gryzenhout, Marieka; Wingfield, Michael J. (Mycotaxon, Ltd., 2010-01)
    During a mycological excursion to the Pondoland region of South Africa in 2008, six interesting anamorphic fungi with appendage-bearing conidia were isolated. They are Bartalinia pondoensis, Crucellisporium umtamvunae, ...
  • New Botryosphaeriales on native red milkwood (Mimusops caffra) 
    Jami, Fahimeh; Marincowitz, Seonju; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Michael J. (Springer, 2018-09)
    Fungi in the Botryosphaeriales (Ascomycetes) are common endophytes in woody plants with a wide global distribution and in some cases they are important tree pathogens. The aim of this study was to consider the possible ...
  • New Ceratocystis species associated with rapid death of Metrosideros polymorpha in Hawai'i 
    Barnes, Irene; Fourie, Arista; Wingfield, Michael J.; Harrington, T.C.; McNew, D.L.; Sugiyama, L.S.; Luiz, B.C.; Heller, W.P.; Keith, L.M. (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 2018-03-27)
    The native ˋōhiˋa lehua (Metrosideros polymorpha) has cultural, biological and ecological significance to Hawai`i, but it is seriously threatened by a disease commonly referred to as rapid ˋōhiˋa death (ROD). Preliminary ...
  • New Ceratocystis species from Eucalyptus and Cunninghamia in South China 
    Liu, FeiFei; Mbenoun, Michael; Barnes, Irene; Roux, Jolanda; Wingfield, Michael J.; Li, GuoQing; Li, JieQiong; Chen, ShuaiFei (Springer, 2015-06)
    During routine surveys for possible fungal pathogens in the rapidly expanding plantations of Eucalyptus and Cunninghamia lanceolata in China, numerous isolates of unknown species in the genus Ceratocystis (Microascales) ...
  • New Ceratocystis species infecting coffee, cacao, citrus and native trees in Colombia 
    Van Wyk, Marelize; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Marin, M.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Springer, 2010-01)
    Ceratocystis fimbriata sensu lato includes a large number of plant and especially tree pathogens. In Colombia, isolates of this fungus cause a serious cankerstain disease on coffee as well as other fruit trees. Large ...
  • New cryptic species of Teratosphaeria on Eucalyptus in Australia 
    Andjic, Vera; Maxwell, Aaron; StJ. Hardy, Giles E.; Burgess, Treena I. (International Mycological Association, 2016-10-20)
    Teratosphaeria destructans and T. viscida are serious pathogens causing leaf, bud and shoot blight diseases of Eucalyptus plantations in the subtropics and tropics of South-East Asia (T. destructans) and North ...
  • A new forum to discuss health economics and genomics in South Africa 
    Malherbe, Helen L.; Alant, Janin; Bornman, Liza (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2022-05)
    No abstract available.
  • New host and country records of the Dothistroma needle blight pathogens from Europe and Asia 
    Barnes, Irene; Kirisits, Thomas; Akulov, A.; Chhetri, D.B.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Bulgakov, T.S.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Blackwell, 2008-06)
    Dothistroma needle blight (DNB) is a serious disease of pines (Pinus spp.), with a worldwide distribution. It is caused by the ascomycete fungi Dothistroma septosporum (teleomorph: Mycosphaerella pini) and Dothistroma pini ...
  • New host associations and a novel species for the gall-inducing acacia rust genus Ravenelia in South Africa 
    Ebinghaus, Malte; Maier, W.D.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Begerow, Dominik (Pensoft Publishers, 2018-12)
    Trees in the genus Vachellia (previously Acacia) are commonly infected by the gall-inducing rusts Ravenelia macowaniana and R. evansii. Rust galls bearing aecial infections and relating uredinial and telial infections on ...
  • New host range and distribution of Ceratocystis pirilliformis in South Africa 
    Lee, Dong Hyeon; Roux, Jolanda; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Barnes, Irene; Wingfield, Michael J. (Springer, 2016-11)
    Ceratocystis pirilliformis was first described from wounds on Eucalyptus trees in Australia and subsequently found as a common wound inhabitant on these trees in South Africa. During a recent disease survey carried out ...
  • New hosts for Lecanosticta acicola and Dothistroma septosporum in newly established arboreta in Spain 
    Mesanza, Nebai; Raposo, Rosa; Elvira-Recuenco, Margarita; Barnes, Irene; Van der Nest, Ariska; Hernandez, Monica; Pascual, Maria Teresa; Barrena, Iskander; San Martin, Unai; Cantero, Alejandro; Hernandez-Escribano, Laura; Iturritxa, Eugenia (Wiley, 2021-02)
    A historical outbreak of needle blight disease was recorded during 2018 to 2019 in plantations of Pinus radiata and Pinus nigra in the North of Spain. The main pathogens involved in this historical outbreak were identified ...
  • A new Leptographium species from the roots of declining Pinus sylvestris in Switzerland 
    Marincowitz, Seonju; Duong, Tuan A.; Heiniger, U.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm (Wiley, 2017-08)
    Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) trees have been declining in the Rhône valley, Switzerland, for almost three decades. In an assessment of the role of fungi in this syndrome, the dominant fungus isolated from stained roots ...
  • New microsatellite markers for population studies of Phytophthora cinnamomi, an important global pathogen 
    Engelbrecht, Juanita; Duong, Tuan A.; Van der Berg, Noelani (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-12-15)
    Phytophthora cinnamomi is the causal agent of root rot, canker and dieback of thousands of plant species around the globe. This oomycete not only causes severe economic losses but also threatens natural ecosystems. In ...
  • A new multi locus variable number of tandem repeat analysis scheme for epidemiological surveillance of Xanthomonas vasicola pv. Musacearum, the plant pathogen causing bacterial wilt on banana and enset 
    Nakato, Gloria Valentine; Rojas, Juan Luis Fuentes; Verniere, Christian; Blondin, Laurence; Coutinho, Teresa A.; Mahuku, George; Wicker, Emmanuel (Public Library of Science, 2019-04-11)
    Xanthomonas vasicola pv. musacearum (Xvm) which causes Xanthomonas wilt (XW) on banana (Musa accuminata x balbisiana) and enset (Ensete ventricosum), is closely related to the species Xanthomonas vasicola that contains the ...
  • A new Ophiostoma species from loblolly pine roots in the southeastern United States 
    Zanzot, James W.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Eckhardt, Lori G.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Springer, 2010-08)
    During the course of a survey of fungi in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) roots in Georgia, USA, a species of Ophiostoma morphologically similar to O. pluriannulatum, was isolated. Morphological characteristics and DNA sequence ...