Publications

Jan 2009

Factors affecting pine pitch canker modelled on Michaelis-Menten kinetics

Hammerbacher A, Wright LP, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ et al.

Botany

Fusarium circinatum Nirenberg and O’Donnell is an important pathogen of pine seedlings and cuttings in South Africa. The fungus...

Mar 2009

Microsatellite discovery by deep sequencing of enriched genomic libraries

Santana QC, Coetzee MPA, Steenkamp ET, Mlonyeni OX et al.

BioTechniques

Robust molecular markers such as microsatellites are important tools used to understand the dynamics of natural populations, but...

2009

Pathogenicity of seven species of the Botryosphaeriaceae on Eucalyptus clones in Venezuela

Mohali SR, Slippers B, Wingfield MJ

Australasian Plant Pathology

2009

Genes up-regulated in tolerant cavendish banana roots in response to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense infection

van den Berg N, Berger DK, Hein I, Birch PRJ et al.

Acta Horticulturae

Mar 2009

Ambrosiella beaveri sp. nov., associated with an exotic ambrosia beetle, Xylosandrus mutilatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae), in Mississippi, USA

Six DL, Stone WD, De Beer ZW, Woolfolk S

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Xylosandrus mutilatus is an Asian ambrosia beetle that has recently established in Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, and possibly...

2009

Ophiostomatoid fungi associated with the invasive pine-infesting bark beetle, Dendroctonus valens, in China

Lu M, Zhou XD, De Beer ZW, Wingfield MJ et al.

Fungal Diversity

Jan 2009

Levels of specificity of Xylaria species associated with fungus-growing termites: a phylogenetic approach

Visser, A. A., Ros, V. I. D., De Beer, Z.W., Debets, A. J. M. et al.

Molecular Ecology

Fungus-growing termites live in obligate mutualistic symbiosis with species of the basidiomycete genus Termitomyces, which are...

Mar 2009

Fatal Ophiostoma piceae infection in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

Bommer, Martin, Hutter, Marie-Luise, Stilgenbauer, Stephan, de Hoog, G. Sybren et al.

Journal of Medical Microbiology

We report to our knowledge the first case of human infection with Ophiostoma piceae. This Sporothrix schenckii-related fungus...

Dec 2009

Ophiostoma denticiliatum sp. nov. and other Ophiostoma species associated with the birch bark beetle in southern Norway

Linnakoski, R., De Beer, Z.W., Rousi, M., Solheim, H. et al.

Persoonia

Ophiostomatoid fungi were isolated from Scolytus ratzeburgi infesting Betula pendula in Norway. Fungi were identified based on...