Publications

Jan 2013

Diversity and distribution of co-infecting Botryosphaeriaceae from Eucalyptus grandis and Syzygium cordatum in South Africa

Pillay K, Slippers B, Wingfield MJ, Gryzenhout M

South African Journal of Botany

Species in the fungal family Botryosphaeriaceae are latent pathogens on woody trees. These fungi often have a wide host range,...

Mar 2013

Concerted Evolution in the Ribosomal RNA Cistron

Naidoo K, Steenkamp ET, Coetzee MPA, Wingfield MJ et al.

PLoS ONE

<h4>Background</h4>Gene conversion is the mechanism proposed to be responsible for the homogenization of multigene families such...

Aug 2012

A serious canker disease caused by Immersiporthe knoxdaviesiana gen. et sp. nov. (Cryphonectriaceae) on native Rapanea melanophloeos in South Africa

Chen SF, Wingfield MJ, Roets F, Roux J

Plant Pathology

Recent disease surveys in the Western Cape province of South Africa have revealed a previously unknown and serious stem canker...

Sep 2013

Dothistroma septosporum identified in Greece on Pinus brutia and Pinus nigra plantations

Tsopelas P, Barnes I, Soulioti N, Wingfield MJ

Plant Disease

Dothistroma needle blight (DNB) is caused by two ascomycete fungi, Dothistroma septosporum with a worldwide distribution and D....

Jul 2012

The tolerance of Pinus patula × Pinus tecunumanii, and other pine hybrids, to Fusarium circinatum in greenhouse trials

Mitchell RG, Wingfield MJ, Hodge GR, Steenkamp ET et al.

New Forests

The field survival of Pinus patula seedlings in South Africa is frequently below acceptable standards. From numerous studies it...

Jan 2012

Susceptibility of provenances and families of Pinus maximinoi and Pinus tecunumanii to frost in South Africa

Mitchell RG, Wingfield MJ, Hodge GR, Dvorak WS et al.

New Forests

The future of South Africa’s most important pine species, Pinus patula, is threatened by the pitch canker fungus, Fusarium...

Oct 2013

Biology and rearing of Cleruchoides noackae (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae), an egg parasitoid for the biological control of Thaumastocoris peregrinus (Hemiptera: Thaumastocoridae)

Mutitu EK, Garnas JR, Hurley BP, Wingfield MJ et al.

Journal of Economic Entomology

Cleruchoides noackae Lin and Huber (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) is a solitary egg parasitoid of Thaumastocoris peregrinus Carpintero...

Jan 2013

Transmission ratio distortion in an interspecific cross between Fusarium circinatum and Fusarium subglutinans

De Vos L, van der Merwe NA, Wingfield MJ, Myburg AA et al.

Genes and Genomics

Dec 2012

Mate-recognition and species boundaries in the ascomycetes

Martin SH, Steenkamp ET, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD

Fungal Diversity