Browsing Research Articles (Genetics) by UP Author "Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie)"

Browsing Research Articles (Genetics) by UP Author "Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie)"

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  • 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 ...
  • Breed ancestry, divergence, admixture, and selection patterns of the Simbra crossbreed 
    Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Hlongwane, Nompilo; Hadebe, Khanyisile; Chan, Wai Yin; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); De Vos, Lieschen; Greyling, Ben; Kooverjee, Bhaveni B.; Soma, Pranisha Omduth; Dzomba, Edgar F.; Bradfield, Michael; Muchadeyi, Farai C. (Frontiers Media, 2021-01)
    In this study, we evaluated an admixed South African Simbra crossbred population, as well as the Brahman (Indicine) and Simmental (Taurine) ancestor populations to understand their genetic architecture and detect genomic ...
  • Cryphonectriaceae associated with rust-infected Syzygium jambos in Hawaii 
    Roux, Jolanda; Nkuekam, Gilbert Kamgan; Marincowitz, Seonju; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Uchida, Janice; Wingfield, Michael J.; Chen, ShuaiFei (Pensoft Publishers, 2020-12-31)
    Syzygium jambos (Myrtales, Myrtaceae) trees in Hawaii are severely affected by a rust disease caused by Austropuccinia psidii (Pucciniales, Sphaerophragmiaceae), but they are commonly co-infected with species of Cryphonectriaceae ...
  • Diversity and movement of indoor Alternaria alternata across the mainland USA 
    Woudenberg, J.H.C.; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Jurjevic, Z.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias; Crous, Pedro W. (Elsevier, 2015-08)
    Alternaria spp. from sect. Alternaria are frequently associated with hypersensitivity pneumonitis, asthma and allergic fungal rhinitis and sinusitis. Since Alternaria is omnipresent in the outdoor environment, it is thought ...
  • Draft genome of Cercospora zeina, Fusarium pininemorale, Hawksworthiomyces lignivorus, Huntiella decipiens and Ophiostoma ips 
    Wingfield, Brenda D.; Berger, David Kenneth; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Lim, Hye-Jin; Duong, Tuan A.; Bluhm, Burton H.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; De Vos, Lieschen; Fourie, Gerda; Naidoo, Kershney; Olivier, Nicholas Abraham; Lin, Yao-Cheng; Van de Peer, Yves; Joubert, Fourie; Crampton, Bridget Genevieve; Swart, Velushka; Soal, Nicole Christine; Tatham, Catherine; Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Van Wyk, Stephanie; Wilken, Pieter Markus; Wingfield, Michael J. (International Mycological Association, 2017-11-21)
    The genomes of Cercospora zeina, Fusarium pininemorale, Hawksworthiomyces lignivorus, Huntiella decipiens, and Ophiostoma ips are presented in this genome announcement. Three of these genomes are from plant pathogens and ...
  • Draft genome sequences of Chrysoporthe austroafricana, Diplodia scrobiculata, Fusarium nygamai, Leptographium lundbergii, Limonomyces culmigenus, Stagonosporopsis tanaceti, and Thielaviopsis punctulata 
    Wingfield, Brenda D.; Ades, Peter K.; Al-Naemi, Fatima A.; Beirn, Lisa A.; Bihon, Wubetu; Crouch, Jo Anne; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; De Vos, Lieschen; Duong, Tuan A.; Fields, Christopher J.; Fourie, Gerda; Kanzi, Aquillah M.; Malapi-Wight, Martha; Pethybridge, Sarah J.; Radwan, Osman; Rendon, Gloria; Slippers, Bernard; Santana, Quentin C.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Taylor, Paul W.J.; Vaghefi, Niloofar; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Veltri, Daniel; Wingfield, Michael J. (International Mycological Association, 2015-06-22)
    The genomes of Chrysoporthe austroafricana, Diplodia scrobiculata, Fusarium nygami, Leptographium lundbergii, Limonomyces culmigenus, Stagonosporopsis tanaceti, and Thielaviopsis punctulata are presented in this genome ...
  • Evidence for salicylic acid signalling and histological changes in the defence response of Eucalyptus grandis to Chrysoporthe austroafricana 
    Zwart, Lizahn; Berger, David Kenneth; Moleleki, Lucy Novungayo; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Myburg, Alexander Andrew; Naidoo, Sanushka (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-03)
    Eucalyptus species are cultivated for forestry and are of economic importance. The fungal stem canker pathogen Chrysoporthe austroafricana causes disease of varying severity on E. grandis. The Eucalyptus grandis-Chrysoporthe ...
  • 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 systematics and evolution : FUSE 5 
    Song, Jie; Liang, Jun-Feng; Mehrabi-Koushki, Mehdi; Krisai-Greilhuber, Irmgard; Ali, Barkat; Bhatt, Vinod Kumar; Cerna-Mendoza, Agustín; Chen, Bin; Chen, Zai-Xiong; Chu, Hong-Long; Corazon-Guivin, Mike Anderson; Alves da Silva, Gladstone; De Kesel, Andre; Dima, Balint; Dovana, Francesco; Farokhinejad, Reza; Ferisin, Guliano; Guerrero-Abad, Juan Carlos; Guo, Ting; Han, Li-Hong; Ilyas, Sobia; Justo, Alfredo; Khalid, Abdul Nasir; Khodadadi-Pourarpanahi, Sadigheh; Li, Tai-Hui; Liu, Chao; Lorenzini, Marilinda; Lu, Jun-Kun; Mumtaz, Abdul Samad; Oehl, Fritz; Pan, Xue-Yu; Papp, Viktor; Qian, Wu; Razaq, Abdul; Semwal, Kamal C.; Tang, Li-Zhou; Tian, Xue-Lian; Vallejos-Tapullima, Adela; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Wang, Sheng-Kun; Wang, Chao-Qun; Yang, Rui-Heng; Yu, Fei; Zapparoli, Giacomo; Zhang, Ming; Antonín, Vladimir; Aptroot, Andre; Aslan, Ali; Banerjee, Arghya; Chatterjee, Subrata; Dirks, Alden C.; Ebrahimi, Leila; Fotouhifar, Khalil-Berdi; Ghosta, Youbert; Kalinina, Lyudmila B.; Karahan, Dilara; Liu, Jingyu; Maiti, Mrinal Kumar; Mookherjee, Abhirup; Nath, Partha Sarathi; Panja, Birendranath; Saha, Jayanta; Sevcíkova, Hana; Voglmayr, Hermann; Yazıcı, Kenan; Haelewaters, Danny (Verlag Ferdinand Berger, 2020)
    Thirteen new species are formally described: Cortinarius brunneocarpus from Pakistan, C. lilacinoarmillatus from India, Curvularia khuzestanica on Atriplex lentiformis from Iran, Gloeocantharellus neoechinosporus from ...
  • Generic concepts in Nectriaceae 
    Lombard, L.; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias; Crous, Pedro W. (Fungal Biodiversity Centre (CBS), 2015-01-29)
    The ascomycete family Nectriaceae (Hypocreales) includes numerous important plant and human pathogens, as well as several species used extensively in industrial and commercial applications as biodegraders and biocontrol ...
  • The genetic relationship between R. microplus and R. decoloratus ticks in South Africa and their population structure 
    Baron, Samantha; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Maritz-Olivier, Christine (Elsevier, 2018-12)
    Rhipicephalus microplus and R. decoloratus are one-host ticks that preferentially feed on cattle. They are capable of transmitting various tick-borne pathogens which may be detrimental to the agricultural and livestock ...
  • Genome-wide analyses of repeat-induced point mutations in the Ascomycota 
    Van Wyk, Stephanie; Wingfield, Brenda D.; De Vos, Lieschen; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (Frontiers Media, 2021-02)
    The Repeat-Induced Point (RIP) mutation pathway is a fungus-specific genome defense mechanism that mitigates the deleterious consequences of repeated genomic regions and transposable elements (TEs). RIP mutates targeted ...
  • Genome-wide macrosynteny among Fusarium species in the Gibberella fujikuroi complex revealed by amplified fragment length polymorphisms 
    De Vos, Lieschen; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Martin, Simon H.; Santana, Quentin C.; Fourie, Gerda; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D. (Public Library of Science, 2014-12)
    The Gibberella fujikuroi complex includes many Fusarium species that cause significant losses in yield and quality of agricultural and forestry crops. Due to their economic importance, whole-genome sequence information ...
  • Host switching between native and non-native trees in a population of the canker pathogen Chrysoporthe cubensis from Colombia 
    Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Rodas, Carlos A.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Wiley, 2013-06)
    The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that Chrysoporthe cubensis on native trees in South America could be the source of the pathogen that causes severe stem cankers and often mortality in commercially ...
  • Lineages in Nectriaceae : re-evaluating the generic status of Ilyonectria and allied genera 
    Lombard, Lorenzo; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias; Crous, Pedro W. (Firenze University Press, 2014-12)
    Genera with cylindrocarpon-like asexual morphs are important pathogens of various herbaceous and woody plant hosts globally. Recent multi-gene studies of this generic complex indicated that the genus Ilyonectria is ...
  • The mating system of the Eucalyptus canker pathogen Chrysoporthe austroafricana and closely related species 
    Kanzi, Aquillah M.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Wingfield, Brenda D. (Elsevier, 2019-02)
    Fungi in the genus Chrysoporthe are economically important canker pathogens of commercially grown Eucalyptus species and native Myrtales. Before the current study, homothallism was widely accepted as the mating system of ...
  • Mitochondrial introgression and interspecies recombination in the Fusarium fujikuroi species complex 
    Fourie, Gerda; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Wingfield, Brenda D.; Bogale, Mesfin Azene; Wingfield, Michael J.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (International Mycological Association, 2018-02-27)
    The Fusarium fujikuroi species complex (FFSC) is an economically important monophyletic lineage in the genus Fusarium. Incongruence observed among mitochondrial gene trees, as well as the multiple non-orthologous copies of ...
  • Multigene phylogenetic and population differentiation data confirm the existence of a cryptic species within Chrysoporthe cubensis 
    Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Gryzenhout, Marieka; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Elsevier, 2010-11)
    Chrysoporthe cubensis is one of the most important pathogens of Eucalyptus. Based on phylogenetic evidence and geographic origin, isolates of this fungus are known to reside in distinct ‘South America’ and ‘Southeast Asia’ ...
  • Multiple independent origins for a subtelomeric locus associated with growth rate in Fusarium circinatum 
    Van Wyk, Stephanie; Wingfield, Brenda D.; De Vos, Lieschen; Santana, Quentin C.; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Steenkamp, Emma Theodora (International Mycological Association, 2018-06)
    Fusarium is a diverse assemblage that includes a large number of species of considerable medical and agricultural importance. Not surprisingly, whole genome sequences for many Fusarium species have been published or are ...
  • Population structure and genetic diversity of Rhipicephalus microplus in Zimbabwe 
    Sungirai, Marvelous; Baron, Samantha; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Moyo, Doreen Zandile; De Clercq, Patrick; Maritz-Olivier, Christine; Madder, Maxime (Elsevier, 2018-04)
    Recently there was an expansion in the geographic range of Rhipicephalus microplus in Zimbabwe. In order to understand gene flow patterns and population structure in this highly invasive and adaptable cattle tick, a ...