Publications
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Feb 2016
Genetic analysis of yield and flesh colour in sweetpotato
Naidoo SIM, Laurie SM, Odeny DA, Vorster BJ et al.
African Crop Science Journal
May 2016
The future of cystatin engineering
Van Wyk SG, Kunert KJ, Cullis CA, Pillay P et al.
Plant Science
Plant cystatins are naturally occurring protease inhibitors that prevent proteolysis by papain-like cysteine proteases. Their...
May 2016
Seasonal succession of fungi associated with Ips typographus beetles and their phoretic mites in an outbreak region of Finland
Linnakoski R, Mahilainen S, Harrington A, Vanhanen H et al.
PLoS ONE
The ophiostomatoid fungi (Microascales and Ophiostomatales, Ascomycota) are common associates of Ips typographus, and include...
May 2016
Fungal Genomics Challenges the Dogma of Name-Based Biosecurity
McTaggart AR, van der Nest MA, Steenkamp ET, Roux J et al.
PLoS Pathogens
May 2016
The Ophiostoma clavatum species complex: a newly defined group in the Ophiostomatales including three novel taxa
Linnakoski R, Jankowiak R, Villari C, Kirisits T et al.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Two species of blue-stain fungi with similar morphologies, Ophiostoma brunneo-ciliatum and Ophiostoma clavatum, are associates of...
May 2016
Identification and genetic diversity of two invasive Pissodes spp. Germar (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in their introduced range in the southern hemisphere
Wondafrash M, Slippers B, Garnas J, Roux G et al.
Biological Invasions
During the first half of the twentieth century, two accidental cases of introduction of Pissodes weevils were recorded from the...
Apr 2016
New host range and distribution of Ceratocystis pirilliformis in South Africa
Lee DH, Roux J, Wingfield BD, Barnes I et al.
European Journal of Plant Pathology
Ceratocystis pirilliformis was first described from wounds on Eucalyptus trees in Australia and subsequently found as a common...
Jul 2016
Crotalarieae and Genisteae of the South African Great Escarpment are nodulated by novel Bradyrhizobium species with unique and diverse symbiotic loci
Beukes CW, Stepkowski T, Venter SN, Clapa T et al.
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
The genus Bradyrhizobium contains predominantly nitrogen-fixing legume symbionts. Phylogenetic analysis of the genes responsible...
2016
Structure Based Docking and Molecular Dynamic Studies of Plasmodial Cysteine Proteases against a South African Natural Compound and its Analogs
Musyoka TM, Kanzi AM, Lobb KA, Tastan Bishop Ö
Scientific Reports