Publications

Jul 2020

Targeted discovery of tetrapeptides and cyclic polyketide-peptide hybrids from a fungal antagonist of farming termites

Schalk F, Um S, Guo H, Kreuzenbeck NB et al.

ChemBioChem

AbstractHerein, we report the targeted isolation and characterization of four linear nonribosomally synthesized tetrapeptides...

May 2020

Metabolomic Fingerprinting of Potato Cultivars Differing in Susceptibility to Spongospora subterranea f. sp. subterranea Root Infection

Moleboheng M, Modisane KJ, Apostolides Z, van der Waals JE

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Plants defend themselves from pathogens by producing bioactive defense chemicals. The biochemical mechanisms relating to...

May 2020

Phylogenomic incongruence in Ceratocystis: a clue to speciation?

Kanzi AM, Trollip C, Wingfield MJ, Barnes I et al.

BMC Genomics

Abstract Background The taxonomic history of Ceratocystis, a genus in the Ceratocystidaceae, has been beset with questions and...

Dec 2020

Phytophthora acaciivora sp. nov. associated with dying Acacia mangium in Vietnam

Burgess TI, Dang QN, Le BV, Pham NQ et al.

Fungal Systematics and Evolution

Acacia mangium plantations account for more than 50 % of the exotic plantations in Vietnam. A new black butt symptom was...

May 2020

Alternative hosts of Spongospora subterranea f. sp. subterranea in southern Africa

Simango K, Slabbert C, van der Waals JE

European Journal of Plant Pathology

Spongospora subterranea f. sp. subterranea (Sss) is an obligate parasite that can only multiply within the living tissues of a...

Dec 2020

New and Interesting Fungi. 3

Crous PW, Wingfield MJ, Schumacher RK, Akulov A et al.

Fungal Systematics and Evolution

Seven new genera, 26 new species, 10 new combinations, two epitypes, one new name, and 20 interesting new host and / or...

Mar 2020

Updating the taxonomy of Aspergillus in South Africa

Visagie CM, Houbraken J

Studies in Mycology

The taxonomy and nomenclature of the genus <i>Aspergillus</i> and its associated sexual (teleomorphic) genera have been greatly...

2020

Tree diseases can change entire landscapes and must be taken seriously

Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD, Crous CJ

The Conversation

Apr 2020

Quantification of outcrossing events in haploid fungi using microsatellite markers

Lee DH, Wingfield BD, Roux J, Wingfield MJ

Journal of Fungi

Species in genera of the fungal family Ceratocystidaceae are known to have different mating strategies, including heterothallism...