Publications

Dec 2011

A scientific note on the lack of effect of mandible ablation on the synthesis of royal scent by honeybee queens

Zheng, Huo-Qing, Dietemann, Vincent, Hu, Fu-Liang, Crewe, Robin et al.

Apidologie

Aug 2011

) Commercial rhizobial inoculants significantly enhance growth and nitrogen fixation of a promiscuous soybean variety in Kenyan soils.

Thuita M, Pypers P, Herrmann L, Okalebo JR et al.

Biology and Fertility of soils

Low effectiveness of native strains remains a limitation to soybean productivity in sub-Saharan Africa; while in other countries...

May 2012

Cryptococcus cyanovorans sp. nov., a basidiomycetous yeast isolated from cyanide-contaminated soil

Motaung TE, Albertyn J, Kock JLF, Pohl CH

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Eighteen yeast strains were isolated and identified from cyanide-contaminated soil in South Africa. According to sequence-based...

Jul 2012

Pantoea rodasii sp. nov., Pantoea rwandensis sp. nov. and Pantoea wallisii sp. nov., isolated from Eucalyptus

Brady Carrie L, Cleenwerck I, van der Westhuizen L., Venter S. N. et al.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Several Gram-negative-staining, facultatively anaerobic bacterial isolates were obtained from Eucalyptus seedlings showing...

Jul 2012

Host switching between native and non-native trees in a population of the canker pathogen Chrysoporthe cubensis from Colombia

van der Merwe N. A. , Steenkamp E.T., Rodas C.A, Wingfield B.D et al.

Plant Pathology

The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that Chrysoporthe cubensis on native trees in South America could be the...

Feb 2012

Fusarium circinatum and pitch canker of Pinus in Colombia

Steenkamp E.T., Rodas C.A, Kvas M., Wingfield M.J

Australasian Plant Pathology

Jun 2012

Controlled disorder in plant light-harvesting complex II explains its photoprotective role

Krüger, T.P.J., Ilioaia, C., Johnson, M.P., Ruban, A.V. et al.

Biophysical Journal

The light-harvesting antenna of photosystem II (PSII) has the ability to switch rapidly between a state of efficient light use...

Sep 2012

How photosynthetic proteins switch

Valkunas, L., Chmeliov, J., Krüger, T.P.J., Ilioaia, C. et al.

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Nov 2012

Erratum: Fluorescence intermittency from the main plant light-harvesting complex: Sensitivity to the local environment (Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2011) 115: 18 (5083-5095) DOI: 10.1021/jp109833x)

Krüger, T.P.J., Ilioaia, C., Valkunas, L., Grondelle, R.V.

Journal of Physical Chemistry B