Publications
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Sep 2020
Host specificity tests reveals new host of a global biological control agent Psyllaephagus bliteus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae)
Bush SJ, Slippers B, Dittrich-Schröder G, Hurley BP
African Entomology
Sep 2020
Caliciopsis moriondi, a new species for a fungus long confused with the pine pathogen C. pinea
Migliorini D, Luchi N, Pepori AL, Pecori F et al.
MycoKeys
The genus Caliciopsis (Eurotiomycetes, Coryneliales) includes saprobic and plant pathogenic species. Caliciopsis canker is caused...
Sep 2020
Genomic evidence of introgression and adaptation in a model subtropical tree species, Eucalyptus grandis
Mostert-O'Neill MM, Reynolds SM, Acosta JJ, Lee DJ et al.
Molecular Ecology
AbstractThe genetic consequences of adaptation to changing environments can be deciphered using population genomics, which may...
Sep 2020
No to Neocosmospora: Phylogenomic and Practical Reasons for Continued Inclusion of the Fusarium solani Species Complex in the Genus Fusarium
O'Donnel K, Al-Hatmi AMS, Aoki T, Brankovics B et al.
mSphere
This article is to alert medical mycologists and infectious disease specialists of recent name changes of medically important...
Sep 2020
Invasive gall-forming wasps that threaten non-native plantation-grown Eucalyptus: diversity and invasion patterns
Dittrich-Schröder G, Hurley BP, Wingfield MJ, Nahrung HF et al.
Agricultural and Forest Entomology
Abstract Gall‐forming hymenopterans of Eucalyptus species are highly successful invaders causing significant damage in non‐native...
Aug 2020
The granulate ambrosia beetle, Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae), and its fungal symbiont found in South Africa
Nel WJ, De Beer ZW, Wingfield MJ, Duong TA
Zootaxa
Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motchulsky) is a native Asian ambrosia beetle that has been accidentally introduced to many countries...
Jul 2020
Selective feeding behaviors illuminate patterns of sap beetle associations with ophiostomatoid fungi
Mbenoun M, Wingfield MJ, Misse AC, Roux J
Symbiosis
Jul 2020
Next generation sequencing reveals past and current widespread occurrence of maize yellow mosaic virus in South Africa
Welgemoed T, Pierneef R, Read DA, Schulze SE et al.
European Journal of Plant Pathology
Maize yellow mosaic virus (MaYMV) is a single-stranded RNA polerovirus first identified in China. MaYMV was recently reported...
Jun 2020
Poroid Hymenochaetaceae associated with trees showing wood-rot symptoms in the Garden Route National Park of South Africa
Thcotet Tchoumi JM, Coetzee MPA, Roux J
Mycologia
Poroid Hymenochaetaceae associated with wood rots of trees in three timber-harvesting compartments of the Garden Route National...