Publications
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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...
Factors affecting pine pitch canker modelled on Michaelis-Menten kinetics
Almuth Hammerbacher, Wright LP, Brenda Wingfield, Mike Wingfield, Teresa Coutinho · Botany, Jan 2009 · DOI
Microsatellite discovery by deep sequencing of enriched genomic libraries
Quentin Santana, Martin Coetzee, Emma Steenkamp, Osmond Mlonyeni, Hammond GNA, Mike Wingfield et al. · BioTechniques, Mar 2009 · DOI
Pathogenicity of seven species of the Botryosphaeriaceae on Eucalyptus clones in Venezuela
Mohali SR, Bernard Slippers, Mike Wingfield · Australasian Plant Pathology, 2009 · DOI
Genes up-regulated in tolerant cavendish banana roots in response to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense infection
Noelani van den Berg, Dave Berger, Hein I, Paul Birch, Mike Wingfield, Viljoen A · Acta Horticulturae, 2009
Ambrosiella beaveri sp. nov., associated with an exotic ambrosia beetle, Xylosandrus mutilatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae), in Mississippi, USA
Six DL, Stone WD, Wilhelm de Beer, Woolfolk S · Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Mar 2009 · DOI
Ophiostomatoid fungi associated with the invasive pine-infesting bark beetle, Dendroctonus valens, in China
Lu M, XuDong Zhou, Wilhelm de Beer, Mike Wingfield, Sun J-H · Fungal Diversity, 2009
Levels of specificity of Xylaria species associated with fungus-growing termites: a phylogenetic approach
Visser, A. A., Ros, V. I. D., Wilhelm de Beer, Debets, A. J. M., Hartog, E., Kuyper, T. W. et al. · Molecular Ecology, Jan 2009 · DOI
Fatal Ophiostoma piceae infection in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Bommer, Martin, Hutter, Marie-Luise, Stilgenbauer, Stephan, de Hoog, G. Sybren, Wilhelm de Beer, Wellinghausen, Nele · Journal of Medical Microbiology, Mar 2009 · DOI
Ophiostoma denticiliatum sp. nov. and other Ophiostoma species associated with the birch bark beetle in southern Norway
Riikka Linnakoski, Wilhelm de Beer, Rousi, M., Solheim, H., Mike Wingfield · Persoonia, Dec 2009 · DOI