Publications
Discover FABI's research outputs and scholarly contributions
Oct 2017
Urban trees: bridge-heads for forest pest invasions and sentinels for early detection
Paap T, Burgess TI, Wingfield MJ
Biological Invasions
Urban trees have been increasingly appreciated for the many benefits they provide. As concentrated hubs of human-mediated...
Jan 2018
Phytophthora Contamination in a Nursery and Its Potential Dispersal into the Natural Environment
Simamora AV, Paap T, Howard K, Stukely MJC et al.
Plant Disease
A detailed site investigation of a eucalypt nursery suffering disease losses revealed the causal agent to be Phytophthora...
Oct 2017
Bretziella, a new genus to accommodate the oak wilt fungus, Ceratocystis fagacearum (Microascales, Ascomycota)
De Beer ZW, Marincowitz S, Duong TA, Wingfield MJ
MycoKeys
Recent reclassification of the Ceratocystidaceae (Microascales) based on multi-gene phylogenetic inference has shown that the oak...
Dec 2017
Diversity and bioactivities of nostocacean cyanobacteria isolated from paddy soil in Vietnam
Pham, Hang T.L., Nguyen, Lien T.T., Duong, Tuan A., Bui, Dung T.T. et al.
Systematic and Applied Microbiology
Nostocacean cyanobacteria are one of the important components of paddy fields due to their ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen...
Feb 2017
Phenolic content as an indicator of resistance of cowpea seedlings to Sclerotium rolfsii.
Appolinaire A., Thierry R., Theresa A.S. Aveling
European Journal of Plant Pathology
The role of phenolics in plant tolerance to pathogen infection is well documented. The objective of the present preliminary...
Sep 2017
The privileges and opportunities of a research sabbatical
Wingfield BD
South African Journal of Science
2017
The peer review system has flaws. But it’s still a barrier to bad science
Wingfield BD
The Conversation
Sep 2017
Evidence for an ancient whole genome duplication in the cycad lineage
Roodt D, Lohaus R, Sterck L, Swanepoel RL et al.
PLOS ONE
Contrary to the many whole genome duplication events recorded for angiosperms (flowering plants), whole genome duplications in...
Sep 2017
A dynamic, web-based resource to identify rust fungi (Pucciniales) in southern Africa
McTaggart AR, Beasley DR, Wingfield MJ, Wood AR et al.
MycoKeys
Rust fungi (Pucciniales) are some of the most important plant pathogens that cause diseases of agricultural and tree crops. There...