Publications

Feb 2023

Population structure and diversity of the needle pathogen Dothistroma pini suggests human-mediated movement in Europe

van der Nest A, Wingfield MJ, Sadiković D, Mullett MS et al.

Frontiers in Genetics

Dothistroma needle blight (DNB) is an important disease of Pinus species that can be caused by one of two distinct but closely...

May 2023

Unexpected diversity in historical biological control programs: Population genetics of the nematode Deladenus siricidicola in Australia and New Zealand

Eshetu FB, Barnes I, Nahrung FH, Fitza KNE et al.

Biological Control

Feb 2023

Diversity and Distribution of Calonectria Species in Soils from Eucalyptus urophylla × E. grandis, Pinus massoniana, and Cunninghamia lanceolata Plantations in Four Provinces in Southern China

Liu Y, Chen SF

Journal of Fungi

The species of Calonectria include many notorious plant pathogens and are widely distributed around the world. Leaf blight caused...

2023

Phylogeny, Morphology, Distribution, and Pathogenicity of Seven Calonectria Species from Leaf Blighted Eucalyptus in HaiNai Island, China

Liang XY, Wang QC, Chen SF

Plant Disease

Feb 2023

Biology of the invasive shell lerp psyllid, Spondyliaspis cf. plicatuloides (Froggatt) (Hemiptera: Aphalaridae)

Makunde PT, Slippers B, Bush SJ, Hurley BP

African Entomology

Spondyliaspis cf. plicatuloides (Froggatt) (Hemiptera: Aphalaridae) is native to Australia but was first detected outside its...

Feb 2023

Diversity of viroids infecting grapevines in the South African Vitis germplasm collection

Morgan SW, Read DA, Burger JT, Pietersen G

Virus Genes

Seven viroid species and one putative viroid species have been reported to infect grapevine namely, hop stunt viroid (HSVd),...

Jan 2023

First report of canker caused by Chrysoporthe austroafricana on the plantation-grown eucalypt Corymbia henryi in South Africa

Suzuki H, Marincowitz S, Roux J, Wingfield BD et al.

Forestry

Abstract Species of Corymbia are increasingly being tested for plantation establishment in South Africa. During disease surveys...

Mar 2023

Retention of post-harvest residues enhances soil fungal biodiversity in Eucalyptus plantations

Bose T, Vivas M, Slippers B, Roux J et al.

Forest Ecology and Management

Nov 2022

Along the footpath of Penicillium discovery: Six new species from the Woodville Big Tree Forest Trail

Visagie CM, Yilmaz N

Mycologia

In this study, we studied the diversity of <i>Penicillium</i> occurring in soil collected along the Woodville Big Tree Forest...