Publications

Jul 2021

The distribution and diversity of Leptocybe invasa (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) and its gall associates in South Africa

Gevers CR, Slippers B, Germishuizen I, Dittrich-Schröder G et al.

Southern Forests

Dec 2021

Harnessing the functional diversity of plant cystatins to design inhibitor variants highly active against herbivorous arthropod digestive proteases

Tremblay J, Goulet M-C, Vorster J, Goulet C et al.

The FEBS Journal

Protein engineering approaches have been proposed to improve the inhibitory properties of plant cystatins against herbivorous...

Dec 2021

Harnessing the functional diversity of plant cystatins to design inhibitor variants highly active against herbivorous arthropod digestive proteases

The FEBS Journal

Protein engineering approaches have been proposed to improve the inhibitory properties of plant cystatins against herbivorous...

Nov 2021

Re-Evaluation of the Taxonomy of Talaromyces minioluteus

Pyrri I, Visagie CM, Soccio P, Houbraken J

Journal of Fungi

Talaromyces minioluteus belongs to the section Trachyspermi, has a worldwide distribution and has been found on various...

Nov 2021

A taxonomic review of Penicillium section Charlesia

Sun BD, Visagie CM, Chen AJ, Houbraken J

Mycological Progress

Nov 2021

The polyphagous shot hole borer beetle: Current status of a perfect invader in South Africa

Van Rooyen E, Paap T, De Beer ZW, Townsend G et al.

South African Journal of Science

<p>The polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB) beetle is a recent invader in South Africa. Together with its fungal symbiont,...

Nov 2021

Loss and Gain of Gut Bacterial Phylotype Symbionts in Afrotropical Stingless Bee Species (Apidae: Meliponinae)

Microorganisms

Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) are the most diverse group of corbiculate bees and are important managed and wild pollinators...

2021

The Threat of the Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer to Pecan Trees is perhaps less than initially expected

De Beer ZW, Fell S

SA Pecan

2021

Ophiostomatoid fungi including a new species associated with Asian larch bark beetle Ips subelongatus, in Heilongjiang (Northeast China)

Chang R, Wingfield MJ, Marincowitz S, De Beer ZW et al.

Fungal Systematics and Evolution

Ips subelongatus (Coleoptera, Scolytinae) is an important bark beetle species that infests Larix spp. in Asia. Individuals of...