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  • Calonectria species associated with cutting rot of Eucalyptus 
    Lombard, Lorenzo; Zhou, Xudong; Crous, Pedro W.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Nationaal Herbarium Nederland & Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, 2010-01)
    Decline in the productivity of Eucalyptus hybrid cutting production in the Guangdong Province of China is linked to cutting rot associated with several Calonectria spp. The aim of this study was to identify these fungi ...
  • Calonectria species isolated from Eucalyptus plantations and nurseries in South China 
    Li, JieQiong; Wingfield, Michael J.; Liu, QianLi; Barnes, Irene; Roux, Jolanda; Lombard, Lorenzo; Crous, Pedro W.; Chen, ShuaiFei (International Mycological Association, 2017-10-17)
    Diseases caused by species of Calonectria (Ca.) represent a serious threat to the growth and sustainability of Eucalyptus plantations in China. Symptoms caused by these fungi mainly include leaf blight on trees in ...
  • Calpurnia aurea (Aiton) benth extracts reduce quorum sensing controlled virulence factors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa 
    Cosa, Sekelwa; Rakoma, Jostina R.; Yusuf, Abdullahi Ahmed; Tshikalange, Thilivhali Emmanuel (MDPI Publishing, 2020-05-13)
    Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the causative agent of several life-threatening human infections. Like many other pathogens, P. aeruginosa exhibits quorum sensing (QS) controlled virulence factors such as biofilm during disease ...
  • Cancer prevalence in 129 breast-ovarian cancer families tested for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations 
    Schlebusch, Carina M.; Dreyer, Greta; Sluiter, M.D.; Yawitch, T.M.; Van den Berg, H.J.; Jansen van Rensburg, Elizabeth (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010-02)
    BACKGROUND: Women who carry germline mutations in the breast-ovarian cancer susceptibility genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, are at very high risk of developing breast and / or ovarian cancer. Both genes are tumour suppressor genes ...
  • Candidate genetic modifiers for breast and ovarian cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers 
    Dorfling, Cecilia Maria; Peterlongo, Paolo; Chang-Claude, Jenny; Moysich, K.B.; Rudolph, A.; Schmutzler, Rita Katharina; Simard, Jacques; Soucy, Penny; Eeles, Rosalind A.; Easton, Douglas F.; Hamann, Ute; Wilkening, S.; Chen, B.; Rookus, Matti A.; Schmidt, Marjanka K.; Van Der Baan, F.H.; Spurdle, Amanda B.; Walker, L.C.; Lose, F.; Maia, A-T.; Montagna, Marco; Matricardi, L.; Lubinski, Jan; Jakubowska, Anna; Garcia, E.B.G.; Olopade, Olufunmilayo I.; Nussbaum, R.L.; Nathanson, Katherine L.; Domchek, Susan M.; Rebbeck, Timothy R.; Arun, Banu K.; Karlan, Beth Y.; Orsulic, Sandra; Lester, Jenny; Chung, Wendy K.; Miron, Alexander; Southey, Melissa C.; Goldgar, David E.; Buys, Saundra S.; Janavicius, Ramunas; Jansen van Rensburg, Elizabeth; Ding, Yuan Chun; Neuhausen, Susan L.; Hansen, Thomas V.O.; Gerdes, Anne-Marie; Ejlertsen, Bent; Jønson, L.; Osorio, Ana; Martínez-Bouzas, C.; Benitez, Javier; Conway, E.E.; Blazer, K.R.; Weitzel, Jeffrey N.; Manoukian, Siranoush; Peissel, Bernard; Zaffaroni, D.; Scuvera, G.; Barile, Monica; Ficarazzi, F.; Mariette, F.; Fortuzzi, S.; Viel, Alessandra; Gianotti, Giacomo; Papi, Laura; Martayan, A.; Tibiletti, Maria Grazia; Radice, Paolo; Fostira, Florentia; Garber, Judy; Donaldson, Alan; Brewer, Carole; Foo, Claire; Evans, D.G.R.; Frost, Debra; Eccles, Diana M.; Brady, A.; Cook, Jackie; Tischkowitz, Marc; Adlard, Julian; Barwell, J.; Walker, L.; Izatt, Louise; Side, Lucy E.; Kennedy, M.J.; Rogers, Mark T.; Porteous, Mary E.; Morrison, Patrick J.; Platte, Radka; Davidson, Richard S.; Hodgson, Shirley V.; Ellis, Steve; Cole, T.; Godwin, Andrew K.; Claes, Kathleen; Van Maerken, T.; Meindl, Alfons; Gehrig, Andrea; Sutter, Christian; Engel, Christoph; Niederacher, Dieter; Steinemann, Doris; Plendl, Hansjoerg; Kast, Karin; Rhiem, Kerstin; Ditsch, Nina; Arnold, Norbert; Varon-Mateeva, Raymonda; Wappenschmidt, Barbara; Wang-Gohrke, S.; Bressac-De Paillerets, B.; Buecher, B.; Delnatte, Capucine; Houdayer, Claude; Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique; Damiola, Francesca; Coupier, Isabelle; Barjhoux, Laure; Venat-Bouvet, Laurence; Golmard, Lisa; Boutry-Kryza, N.; Sinilnikova, Olga M.; Caron, O.; Pujol, Pascal; Mazoyer, Sylvie; Belotti, Muriel; Piedmonte, Marion; Friedlander, Michael L.; Rodriguez, Gustavo C.; Copeland, L.J.; De la Hoya, Miguel; Segura, P.P.; Nevanlinna, Heli; Aittomäki, K.; Van Os, Theo A.M.; Meijers-Heijboer, Hanne E.J.; Van der Hout, Annemarie H.; Vreeswijk, Maaike P.G.; Hoogerbrugge, N.; Ausems, Margreet G.E.M.; Van Doorn, H.C.; Collee, J.M.; Olah, Edith; Diez, Orland; Blanco, Ignacio; Lazaro, Conxi; Brunet, Joan; Feliubadalo, Lidia; Cybulski, C.; Gronwald, Jacek; Durda, Katarzyna; Jaworska-Bieniek, K.; Sukiennicki, G.; Arason, Adalgeir; Chiquette, J.; Teixeira, M.R.; Olswold, Curtis; Couch, Fergus J.; Lindor, Noralane M.; Wang, Xianshu; Szabo, Csilla I.; Offit, Kenneth; Corines, Marina J.; Jacobs, L. (Liesel); Robson, Mark E.; Zhang, L.; Joseph, V.; Berger, Andreas; Singer, Christian F.; Rappaport, Christine; Kaulich, D.G.; Pfeiler, Georg; Tea, Muy-Kheng M.; Phelan, Catherine M.; Greene, Mark H.; Mai, Phuong L.; Rennert, Gad; Mulligan, Anna Marie; Glendon, Gord; Tchatchou, S.; Andrulis, Irene L.; Toland, Amanda Ewart; Bojesen, Anders; Pedersen, Inge Sokilde; Thomassen, Mads; Jensen, Uffe Birk; Laitman, Yael; Rantala, J.; Von Wachenfeldt, A.; Ehrencrona, Hans; Askmalm, M.S.; Borg, Ake; Kuchenbaecker, Karoline B.; McGuffog, Lesley; Barrowdale, Daniel; Healey, Sue; Lee, Adam; Pharoah, Paul D.P.; Chenevix-Trench, Georgia; Antoniou, Antonis C.; Friedman, Eitan (American Association for Cancer Research, 2015-01)
    BACKGROUND: BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers are at substantially increased risk for developing breast and ovarian cancer. The incomplete penetrance coupled with the variable age at diagnosis in carriers of the same ...
  • Carbohydrate active enzyme domains from extreme thermophiles : components of a modular toolbox for lignocellulose degradation 
    Botha, Jonathan; Mizrachi, Eshchar; Myburg, Alexander Andrew; Cowan, Don A. (Springer, 2018-01)
    Lignocellulosic biomass is a promising feedstock for the manufacture of biodegradable and renewable bioproducts. However, the complex lignocellulosic polymeric structure of woody tissue is difficult to access without ...
  • Case report of sudden death in a child with Williams syndrome following administration of anaesthesia 
    Du Toit-Prinsloo, Lorraine; Dippenaar, Johannes Marthinus (Tinus); Honey, Engela M. (Taylor and Francis, 2015-04)
    Williams syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by distinctive personality traits, facial features (so called “elfin face”) and cardiac abnormalities, of which supravalvular aortic stenosis is the most ...
  • Cattle tick vaccine researchers join forces in CATVAC 
    Schetters, Theo; Bishop, Richard P.; Crampton, Michael; Kopacek, Petr; Lew-Tabor, Alicja; Maritz-Olivier, Christine; Miller, Robert; Mosqueda, Juan; Patarroyo, Joaquin; Rodriguez-Valle, Manuel; Scoles, Glen A.; De la Fuente, Jose (BioMed Central, 2016-02-24)
    A meeting sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was held at the Avanti Hotel, Mohammedia, Morocco, July 14–15, 2015. The meeting resulted in the formation of the Cattle Tick Vaccine Consortium (CATVAC).
  • Cell line name recognition in support of the identification of synthetic lethality in cancer from text 
    Kaewphan, Suwisa; Van Landeghem, Sofie; Ohta, Tomoko; Van de Peer, Yves; Ginter, Filip; Pyysalo, Sampo (Oxford University Press, 2016-01)
    MOTIVATION : The recognition and normalization of cell line names in text is an important task in biomedical text mining research, facilitating for instance the identification of synthetically lethal genes from the ...
  • Ceratocystidaceae exhibit high levels of recombination at the mating-type (MAT) locus 
    Simpson, M.C. (Melissa Claire); Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D. (Elsevier, 2018-12)
    Mating is central to many fungal life cycles and is controlled by genes at the mating-type (MAT) locus. These genes determine whether the fungus will be self-sterile (heterothallic) or self-fertile (homothallic). Species ...
  • Ceratocystis fimbriatomima, a new species in the C. fimbriata sensu lato complex isolated from Eucalyptus trees in Venezuela 
    Van Wyk, Marelize; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Mohali, S.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Kunming University of Science and Technology, P.R. China, 2009-01)
    Species of Ceratocystis represent a group of important plant pathogens as well as saprobes that occur, primarily on woody substrates. The number of species in Ceratocystis has increased substantially in recent years, ...
  • Ceratocystis quercicola sp. nov. from Quercus variabilis in Korea 
    Cho, Sung-Eun; Lee, Dong Hyeon; Wingfield, Michael J.; Marincowitz, Seonju (Korean Society of Mycology, 2020-06-02)
    During a survey of putative fungal pathogens infecting oak trees in the Gangwon Province of the Republic of Korea, a fungus resembling a Ceratocystis sp. was repeatedly isolated from natural wounds on Quercus variabilis. ...
  • Ceratocystis species on Acacia mearnsii and Eucalyptus spp. in eastern and southern Africa including six new species 
    Heath, R.N. (Ronald Natale); Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Meke, G.; Mbaga, A.; Roux, Jolanda (Kunming University of Science and Technology, P.R. China, 2009-01)
    A survey of Ceratocystis species infecting wounds on non-native Acacia mearnsii and Eucalyptus spp. in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and Tanzania resulted in the identification of eight species of which six were new to ...
  • Ceratocystis wilt on Eucalyptus : first record from South Africa 
    Roux, Jolanda; Wingfield, Michael J.; Fourie, Arista; Noeth, K.; Barnes, Irene (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2020)
    Wilt and death of an E. grandis × E. urophylla variety was recently observed in the Zululand region of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Symptoms on the dying trees included a streaking pattern of discolouration in the sapwood ...
  • Certification for gene-edited forests 
    Strauss, Steven H.; Boerjan, Wout; Chiang, Vincent; Costanza, Adam; Coleman, Heather; Davis, John M.; Lu, Meng-Zhu; Mansfield, Shawn D.; Merkle, Scott; Myburg, Alexander Andrew; Nilsson, Ove; Pilate, Gilles; Powell, William; Seguin, Armand; Valenzuela, Sofia (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019-08-23)
    Forest certification bodies were established to provide consumers with confidence that they are purchasing sustainably sourced wood products.
  • The challenge of understanding the origin, pathways and extent of fungal invasions : global populations of the Neofusicoccum parvum-N-ribis species complex 
    Sakalidis, M.L.; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Hardy, G.E. St. J.; Burgess, T.I. (Wiley, 2013)
    AIM : Cryptic species in the Neofusicoccum parvum–N. ribis species complex have only recently been described, invalidating previous interpretations on host and geographical distribution. This study aimed to characterize ...
  • Challenges to planted forest health in developing economies 
    Hurley, Brett Phillip; Slippers, Bernard; Sathyapala, Shiroma; Wingfield, Michael J. (Springer, 2017-11)
    A number of strategies have been proposed to manage the increasing threat of insect pests to non-native plantation forests, but the implementation of these strategies can be especially challenging in developing economies, ...
  • Characterisation of Armillaria species based on pectic isozyme analyses 
    Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Maphosa, L.; Mwenje, E.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D. (Kunming University of Science and Technology, P.R. China, 2009-05)
    Armillaria spp. are the causal agents of Armillaria root rot on a wide variety of mainly woody plants. Identification of these fungi using morphological characteristics is complicated by the fact that fruiting structures ...
  • Characterisation of Zimbabwean Armillaria using IGS-1 sequences and AFLP analysis 
    Wingfield, Brenda D.; Maphosa, L.; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Mwenje, E.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Kunming University of Science and Technology, P.R. China, 2009-01)
    Armillaria root and butt rot disease is a common problem in peach orchards, tea and pine plantations in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. The species of Armillaria causing this disease have not been fully identified but ...
  • Characterising non-structural protein NS4 of African horse sickness virus 
    Zwart, Lizahn; Potgieter, Christiaan A.; Clift, Sarah Jane; Van Staden, Vida; Saad, Jamil (Public Library of Science, 2015-04-27)
    African horse sickness is a serious equid disease caused by the orbivirus African horse sickness virus (AHSV). The virus has ten double-stranded RNA genome segments encoding seven structural and three non-structural ...