Browsing Research Articles (Genetics) by UP Author "Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus"

Browsing Research Articles (Genetics) by UP Author "Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus"

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  • Analysis of microsatellite markers in the genome of the plant pathogen Ceratocystis fimbriata 
    Simpson, M.C. (Melissa Claire); Wilken, Pieter Markus; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D. (Elsevier, 2013-07)
    Ceratocystis fimbriata sensu lato represents a complex of cryptic and commonly plant pathogenic species that are morphologically similar. Species in this complex have been described using morphological characteristics, ...
  • Application of chloroplast phylogenomics to resolve species relationships within the plant genus Amaranthus 
    Viljoen, Erika; Odeny, Damaris Achieng; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Berger, David Kenneth; Rees, David J.G. (Springer, 2018-04)
    Amaranthus species are an emerging and promising nutritious traditional vegetable food source. Morphological plasticity and poorly resolved dendrograms have led to the need for well resolved species phylogenies. We ...
  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi persist in dying Euphorbia ingens trees 
    Vivas, Maria; Crous, C.J.; Dames, J.F.; Van der Linde, Johannes Alwyn; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Roux, Jolanda (Elsevier, 2018-03)
    Forest declines have been reported with increasing regularity during the last decade and are expected to increase due to the ongoing environmental changes. During adverse environmental conditions, plant symbioses with ...
  • Architecture and distribution of introns in core genes of four Fusarium species 
    Phasha, Mmatshepho Malekgale; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Santana, Quentin C.; Fourie, Gerda; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (Genetics Society of America, 2017-11)
    Removal of introns from transcribed RNA represents a crucial step during the production of mRNA in eukaryotes. Available whole-genome sequences and expressed sequence tags (ESTs) have increased our knowledge of this ...
  • Armillaria root rot spreading into a natural woody ecosystem in South Africa 
    Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Musasira, N.Y.; Roux, Jolanda; Roets, F.; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Wingfield, Michael J. (Wiley, 2018-05)
    Signs and symptoms of a disease similar to those of armillaria root rot have recently been observed on various native woody plants on the foothills of Table Mountain in South Africa, one of the most botanically diverse ...
  • Armillaria root-rot pathogens : species boundaries and global distribution 
    Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (MDPI, 2018-10-24)
    This review considers current knowledge surrounding species boundaries of the Armillaria root-rot pathogens and their distribution. In addition, a phylogenetic tree using translation elongation factor subunit 1-alpha ...
  • Bradyrhizobium altum sp. nov., Bradyrhizobium oropedii sp. nov. and Bradyrhizobium acaciae sp. nov. from South Africa show locally restricted and pantropical nodA phylogeographic patterns 
    Avontuur, Juanita R.; Palmer, Marike; Beukes, Chrizelle Winsie; Chan, Wai Yin; Tasiya, Taponeswa; Van Zyl, Elritha; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Stepkowski, Tomasz; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (Elsevier, 2022-02)
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  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Concerted evolution in the ribosomal RNA cistron 
    Naidoo, Kershney; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Corradi, Nicolas (Public Library of Science, 2013-03-12)
    BACKGROUND: Gene conversion is the mechanism proposed to be responsible for the homogenization of multigene families such as the nuclear ribosomal gene clusters. This concerted evolutionary process prevents individual ...
  • Draft genome sequences of Fusarium xylarioides, Teratosphaeria gauchensis and T. zuluensis and genome annotation for Ceratocystis fimbriata 
    Wingfield, Brenda D.; Fourie, Arista; Simpson, Melissa Claire; Bushula-Njah, Vuyiswa; Aylward, Janneke; Barnes, Irene; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Dreyer, Leanne Laurette; Duong, Tuan A.; Geiser, David M.; Roets, Francois; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Van Heerden, Carel J.; Wingfield, Michael J. (International Mycological Association, 2019-09-13)
    Draft genomes of the fungal species Fusarium xylarioides, Teratosphaeria gauchensis and T. zuluensis are presented. In addition an annotation of the genome of Ceratocystis fimbriata is presented. Overall these genomes ...
  • Evidence of low levels of genetic diversity for the Phytophthora austrocedrae population in Patagonia, Argentina 
    Vélez, M.L.; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Wingfield, Michael J.; Rajchenberg, M.; Greslebin, A.G. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014-02)
    Phytophthora austrocedrae is a recently discovered pathogen that causes severe mortality of Austrocedrus chilensis in Patagonia. The high level of susceptibility of the host tree, together with the distribution pattern ...
  • Evolution of lifestyles in Capnodiales 
    Abdollahzadeh, J.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Wingfield, Michael J.; Crous, Pedro W. (Elsevier, 2020-03)
    The Capnodiales, which includes fungi known as the sooty moulds, represents the second largest order in Dothideomycetes, encompassing morphologically and ecologically diverse fungi with different lifestyles and modes of ...
  • First fungal genome sequence from Africa : a preliminary analysis 
    Wingfield, Brenda D.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Santana, Quentin C.; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Bam, Stefan; Barnes, Irene; Beukes, Chrizelle Winsie; Chan, Wai Yin; De Vos, Lieschen; Fourie, Gerda; Friend, Melanie; Gordon, Thomas R. (Tom); Herron, Darryl A.; Holt, Carson; Korf, Ian; Kvas, Marija; Martin, Simon H.; Mlonyeni, X.O.M. (Xolile Osmond Mnyamezeli); Naidoo, Kershney; Phasha, Mmatshepho Malekgale; Postma, Alisa; Reva, Oleg N.; Roos, Heidi; Simpson, M.C. (Melissa Claire); Slinski, Stephanie; Slippers, Bernard; Sutherland, Rene; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); Wilken, Pieter Markus; Yandell, Mark; Zipfel, Renate; Wingfield, Michael J. (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2012-01-25)
    Some of the most significant breakthroughs in the biological sciences this century will emerge from the development of next generation sequencing technologies. The ease of availability of DNA sequence made possible through ...
  • Fungal genomes enhance our understanding of the pathogens affecting trees cultivated in Southern Hemisphere plantations 
    Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Santana, Quentin C.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2020)
    Forest pathogens are a major cause of forest disturbances and they have a significant economic impact on commercial forestry. Genomics is an important technology now available for studies concerning tree health, enabling ...
  • Genome-based characterization of biological processes that differentiate closely related bacteria 
    Palmer, Marike; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Blom, Jochen; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas) (Frontiers Media, 2018-02-06)
    Bacteriologists have strived toward attaining a natural classification system based on evolutionary relationships for nearly 100 years. In the early twentieth century it was accepted that a phylogeny-based system would ...
  • Genome-informed Bradyrhizobium taxonomy : where to from here? 
    Avontuur, Juanita R.; Palmer, Marike; Beukes, Chrizelle Winsie; Chan, Wai Yin; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Blom, Jochen; Stępkowski, Tomasz; Kyrpides, Nikos C.; Woyke, Tanja; Shapiro, Nicole; Whitman, William B.; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (Elsevier, 2019-07)
    Bradyrhizobium is thought to be the largest and most diverse rhizobial genus, but this is not reflected in the number of described species. Although it was one of the first rhizobial genera recognised, its taxonomy remains ...
  • Identification of Armillaria species on declined oak in Britain : implications for oak health 
    Denman, Sandra; Barrett, Glyn; Kirk, Susan A.; McDonald, James E.; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus (Oxford University Press, 2017-01)
    The identity of 51 isolates of Armillaria from 15 Quercus robur trees in poor health, and a single healthy tree, at nine sites in England, was determined using multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) of three gene regions. ...
  • IMA Genome-F 11 : draft genome sequences of Fusarium xylarioides, Teratosphaeria gauchensis and T. zuluensis and genome annotation for Ceratocystis fimbriata 
    Wingfield, Brenda D.; Fourie, Arista; Simpson, Melissa Claire; Bushula-Njah, Vuyiswa; Aylward, Janneke; Barnes, Irene; Coetzee, Martin Petrus Albertus; Dreyer, Leanne Laurette; Duong, Tuan A.; Geiser, David M.; Roets, Francois; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Van Heerden, Carel J.; Wingfield, Michael J. (International Mycological Association, 2019)
    Draft genomes of the fungal species Fusarium xylarioides, Teratosphaeria gauchensis and T. zuluensis are presented. In addition an annotation of the genome of Ceratocystis fimbriata is presented. Overall these genomes ...