Publications

Oct 2015

First report of Puccinia psidii on Corymbia citriodora and Eucalyptus in Colombia

Rodas CA, Roux J, Maier W, Granados GM et al.

Forest Pathology

SummaryA rust disease was observed during routine disease surveys of Eucalypt species in Colombia. The cause of the disease was...

Dec 2015

Burkholderia kirstenboschensis sp. nov. nodulates papilionoid legumes indigenous to South Africa

Steenkamp ET, van Zyl E, Beukes CW, Avontuur J et al.

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Despite the diversity of Burkholderia species known to nodulate legumes in introduced and native regions, relatively few taxa...

2015

The importance of olfactory and visual cues in developing better monitoring tools for Sirex noctilio (Hymenoptera: Siricidae)

Sarvary MA, Cooperband MF, Hajek AE

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

2015

Assessing trap and lure effectiveness for the monitoring of Sirex noctilio

Hurley BP, Garnas J, Cooperband MF

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

2015

Classical biological control of an invasive forest pest: a world perspective of the management of Sirex noctilio using the parasitoid Ibalia leucospoides (Hymenoptera: Ibaliidae)

Fischbein D, Corley JC

Bulletin of Entomological Research

Jan 2015

Behavioural response of the woodwasp Sirex noctilio to volatile emissions of its fungal symbiont

Fernandez Ajo AA, Martınez AS, Villacide JM, Corley JC

Journal of Applied Entomology

AbstractThe wood‐boring wasp, Sirex noctilio, is a global invasive pest that infects and kills pine trees by inoculating spores...

Oct 2015

Do native insects and associated fungi limit non-native woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, survival in a newly invaded environment?

Haavik LJ, Dodds KJ, Allison JD

PLoS ONE

Sirex noctilio F. (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) is an introduced pest of pines (Pinus spp.) in several countries in the Southern...

2015

Ophiostomatoid fungi and their roles in Quercus robur die-back in Tellermann forest, Russia

Selochnik NN, Pashenova NV, Sidorov E, Wingfield MJ et al.

Silva Fennica

Ophiostoma Ophiostoma Quercus robur Ophiostoma O. grandicarpum...

Oct 2015

Uromycladium acaciae, the cause of a sudden, severe disease epidemic on Acacia mearnsii in South Africa

McTaggart AR, Doungsa-ard C, Wingfield MJ, Roux J

Australasian Plant Pathology