Publications
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2018
Selected South African plants with tyrosinase enzyme inhibition and their effect on gene expression
South African Journal of Botany
Dec 2018
Ceratocystidaceae exhibit high levels of recombination at the mating-type (MAT) locus
Simpson MC, Martin Coetzee, Magriet van der Nest, Mike Wingfield et al.
Fungal Biology
Mating is central to many fungal life cycles and is controlled by genes at the mating-type (MAT) locus. These genes determine...
Jan 2019
Maternal environment regulates morphological and physiological traits in Eucalyptus grandis
Vivas M, Rolo V, Wingfield MJ, Slippers B
Forest Ecology and Management
The phenotype of a plant can be shaped by the biotic and abiotic conditions to which their parents are subjected. This phenotypic...
Sep 2018
Potential use of local entomopathogenic nematodes to control Bradysia impatiens (Diptera: Sciaridae) under laboratory conditions
KATUMANYANE A
African Entomology
Sep 2018
Natural products from Actinobacteria associated with fungus-growing termites
Benndorf R, Guo H, Sommerwerk E, Weigel C et al.
Antibiotics
The chemical analysis of insect-associated Actinobacteria has attracted the interest of natural product chemists in the past...
Dec 2018
Community composition and distribution of Phytophthora species across adjacent native and non-native forests of South Africa
Bose T, Wingfield MJ, Roux J, Vivas M et al.
Fungal Ecology
Nov 2018
Heterothallism revealed in the root rot fungi Berkeleyomyces basicola and B. rouxiae
Nel WJ, Duong TA, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD et al.
Fungal Biology
Berkeleyomyces basicola and Berkeleyomyces rouxiae, two sister species previously treated collectively as Thielaviopsis basicola,...
Dec 2018
The genetic relationship between R. microplus and R. decoloratus ticks in South Africa and their population structure
Baron S, Van der Merwe NA, Maritz-Olivier C
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Rhipicephalus microplus and R. decoloratus are one-host ticks that preferentially feed on cattle. They are capable of...