Dr ShuaiFei Chen
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Research Interests
My research interests are taxonomy, population and pathology of tree pathogens, especially those that are important to the forestry industries. These pathogens include species of Botryosphaeriaceae, Cryphonectriaceae, Mycosphaerellaceae, Teratocphaeriaceae, Ceratocystis, and Calonectria. I’m also interested in the disease management of various pathogens on plantation trees.
Research Experiences
I conducted my PhD research in the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria. In my PhD thesis entitled, Fungal Diseases of eucalypts in China, which provides extensive study of fungal pathogens of eucalypts in China conducted to date. After I obtained my PhD degree, I conducted two post-doctoral projects in FABI, University of Pretoria and in University of California-Davis, respectively.
In 2013, I moved back to China and worked in in the Research Institute of Fast-growing Trees (RIFT), Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF). With my friends and colleagues in RIFT and FABI, we built one Tree Protection Programme, RFTPP (RIFT-FABI Tree Protection Programme).
In 2023, I joined in the Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University (FAFU). Now, I’m the research leader of the Forest Pathogen Center, College of Forestry of FAFU. Now we are pushing the collaboration on tree health research between China and FABI.
My Journal Articles
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| Liu QL, Wingfield MJ, Duong TA, Wingfield BD, Chen SF. (2024) Diversity of Calonectria species from leaves and soils in diseased southern China Eucalyptus plantation. Fungal Biology 128:2007-2021.
10.1016/j.funbio.2024.07.007 |
| Coutinho TA, Carstensen G, Venter SN, Chen SF, Tarigan M, Wingfield MJ. (2024) Bacterial community in apparently healthy and asymptomatic Eucalyptus trees and those with symptoms of bacterial wilt. Journal of Plant Pathology
10.1007/s42161-024-01697-x |
| Chen BY, Wu WX, Chen SF. (2024) Wide distribution of Teratosphaeria epicoccoides and T. destructans associated with diseased Eucalyptus leaves in plantations in Southern China. Microorganisms 12:129.
10.3390/microorganisms12010129 |
| Wu WX, Chen SF. (2023) Wide distribution and intraspecies diversity in the pathogenicity of Calonectria in soil from Eucalyptus plantations in southern Guangxi of China. Journal of Fungi 9(8):802.
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| Li WW, Chen SF, Wingfield MJ, Duong TA. (2023) Calonectria species associated with diseased leaves and soils in southern China Eucalyptus plantations. Phytopathology Research 5(29)
10.1186/s42483-023-00183-z |
Liang XY, Wang QC, Chen SF. (2023) Phylogeny, Morphology, Distribution, and Pathogenicity of Seven Calonectria Species from Leaf Blighted Eucalyptus in HaiNai Island, China. Plant Disease
https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-12-22-2802-RE  |
| Liu Y, Chen SF. (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. Journal of Fungi 9(2):198.
10.3390/jof9020198 |
| Li WW, Chen SF, Wingfield MJ, Duong TA. (2023) Calonectria queenslandica: Causal agent of Eucalyptus leaf blight in Southern China. Plant Disease 107:730-742.
10.1094/PDIS-01-22-0196-RE |
| Pham NQ, Marincowitz S, Chen SF, Rodas CA, Wingfield MJ. (2022) Soil-borne Calonectria (Hypocreales, Nectriaceae) associated with Eucalyptus plantations in Colombia. MycoKeys 94:17-35.
10.3897/mycokeys.94.96301 |
| Liu QL, Wingfield MJ, Doung TA, Wingfield BD, Chen SF. (2022) Diversity and distribution of Calonectria species from plantation and forest soils in FuJian Province, China. Journal of Fungi 8(8):811.
10.3390/jof8080811 |
| Chen Q, Suzuki H, Marincowitz S, Chen SF, Wingfield MJ, Winfield BD, et al. (2022) Genera of phytopathogenic fungi: GOPHY 4. Studies in Mycology 101:417-564.
10.3114/sim.2022.101.06 |
| Wang QC, Liu FF, Liu QL, Wu WX, Wingfield MJ, Chen SF. (2022) Comparison of hyphal fragments and spores to evaluate the pathogenicity of the Eucalyptus leaf and shoot pathogen Calonectria pseudoreteaudii. Plant Disease
10.1094/PDIS-01-22-0213-RE |
| Liu LL, Chen SF. (2022) Pathogenicity of six Calonectria species isolated from five soil layers in a Eucalyptus plantation. Journal of Phytopathology
10.1111/jph.13096 |
| Jami F, Marincowitz S, Durán A, Slippers B, Abad JIM, Chen S, Wingfield MJ. (2022) Botryosphaeriaceae diversity on Eucalyptus clones in different climate zones of Indonesia. Forest Pathology :1-14.
10.1111/efp.12737 |
| Li JQ, Wingfield MJ, Barnes I, Chen SF. (2022) Calonectria in the age of genes and genomes: Towards understanding an important but relatively unknown group of pathogens. Molecular Plant Pathology
10.1111/mpp.13209 |
| Pham NQ, Marincowitz S, Chen SF, Yaparudin J, Wingfield MJ. (2022) Calonectria species, including four novel taxa, associated with Eucalyptus in Malaysia. Mycological Progress 21:181-197.
10.1007/s11557-021-01768-8 |
| Wingfield BD, De Vos L, Wilson AM, Duong AT, Vaghefi N, Botes A, Kharwar RN, Chand R, Poudel B, Aliyu H, Barbetti MJ, Chen S, de Maayer P, Liu F, Navathe S, Sinha S, Steenkamp ET, Suzuki H, Tshisekedi KA, van der Nest MA, Wingfield MJ. (2022) Draft genome assemblies of Fusarium marasasianum, Huntiella abstrusa, two Immersiporthe knoxdaviesiana isolates, Macrophomina pseudophaseolina, Macrophomina phaseolina, Naganishia randhawae, and Pseudocercospora cruenta. IMA Fungus 13(1):3.
10.1186/s43008-022-00089-z |
| Liu LL, Wu WX, Chen SF. (2021) Species diversity and distribution characteristics of Calonectria in five soil layers in a Eucalyptus plantation. Journal of Fungi 7:857.
10.3390/jof7100857 |
| Liu FF, Duong TA, Barnes I, Wingfield MJ, Chen SF. (2021) Population diversity and genetic structure reveal patterns of host association and anthropogenic impact for the globally important fungal tree pathogen Ceratocystis manginecans. Journal of Fungi 7:759.
10.3390/jof7090759 |
| Wu WX, Chen SF. (2021) Species diversity, mating strategy, and pathogenicity of Calonectria species from diseased leaves and soils in the Eucalyptus plantation in southern China. Journal of Fungi 7
10.3390/jof7020073 |
| Li JQ, Barnes I, Liu FF, Wingfield MJ, Chen SF. (2021) Global genetic diversity and mating type distribution of Calonectria pauciramosa: an important wide host-range plant pathogen. Plant Disease
10.1094/PDIS-05-20-1050-RE |
| Li G, Slippers B, Wingfield MJ, Chen S. (2021) Variation in Botryosphaeriaceae from Eucalyptus plantations in YunNan Province in southwestern China across a climatic gradient. IMA Fungus 11(22)
10.1186/s43008-020-00043-x |
| Roux J, Nkuekan GK, Marincowitz S, van der Merwe NA, Uchida J, Wingfield MJ, Chen SF. (2020) Chryphonectriaceae associated with rust-infected Syzigium jambos in Hawaii.. MycoKeys 76:49-79.
10.3897/mycokeys.76.58406 |
| Li GQ, Slippers B, Wingfield MJ, Chen SF. (2020) Variation in Botryosphaeriaceae from Eucalyptus plantations in YunNan Province in southwestern China across a climatic gradient. IMA Fungus 11(22)
10.1186/s43008-020-00043-x |
| Liu QL, Li JQ, Wingfield MJ, Duong TA, Wingfield BD, Crous PW, Chen SF. (2020) Reconsideration of species boundaries and proposed DNA barcodes for Calonectria. Studies in Mycology
10.1016/j.simyco.2020.08.001 |
| Liu FF, Marincowitz S, Chen SF, Mbenoun M, Tsopelas P, Soulioti N, Wingfield MJ. (2020) Novel species of Huntiella from naturally-occurring forest trees in Greece and South Africa. MycoKeys (69):33-52.
10.3897/mycokeys.69.53205 |
| Havenga M, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ, Dreyer LL, Roets F, Chen SF, Aylward J. (2020) Low genetic diversity and strong geographic structure in introduced populations of the Eucalyptus foliar pathogen Teratosphaeria destructans. Plant Pathology 69(8):1540-1550.
10.1111/ppa.13235 |
| Li JQ, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ, Barnes I, Fourie A, Crous PW, Chen SF. (2020) Mating genes in Calonectria and evidence for a heterothallic ancestral state . Persoonia 45:163-176.
10.3767/persoonia.2020.45.06 |
| Havenga M, Chen S, Wilken PM, Duong TA, Tatham CT, Dreyer LL, Roets F, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD, Aylward J. (2020) Mating strategy and mating type distribution in six global populations of the Eucalyptus foliar pathogen Teratosphaeria destructans. Fungal Genetics and Biology 137:103350.
10.1016/j.fgb.2020.103350 |
| Wang W, Li GQ, Liu QL, Chen SF. (2020) Cryphonectriaceae on Myrtales in China: phylogeny, host range, and pathogenicity. Persoonia 45:101–131.
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| Liu FF, de Beer ZW, Divakar PK, Crespo A, Pizarro D, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD, Kanzi AM, Sayari M, Chang RL, Ferreira MA, Chen SF, Duong TA. (2019) Draft genome sequences of five Calonectria species from Eucalyptus plantations in China, Celoiporthe dispersa, Sporothrix phasma and Alectoria sarmentosa. IMA Fungus 10(22)
10.1186/s43008-019-0023-5 |
| Wang QC, Chen SF. (2019) Calonectria pentaseptata causes severe leaf disease on cultivated Eucalyptus in Leizhou Peninsula of southern China. Plant Disease
10.1094/PDIS-05-19-1009-RE |
| Pham NQ, Barnes I, Chen SF, Liu FF, Dang NQ, Pham TQ, Lombard L, Crous PW, Wingfield MJ. (2019) Ten new species of Calonectria from Indonesia and Vietnam. Mycologia 111:78-102.
10.1080/00275514.2018.1522179 |
| Liu FF, Li GQ, Roux J, Barnes I, Wilson AM, Wingfield MJ, Chen SF. (2018) Nine novel species of Huntiella from southern China with three distinct mating strategies and variable levels of pathogenicity. Mycologia 110:1145-1171.
10.1080/00275514.2018.1515450 |
| Pham NQ, Barnes I, Chen SF, Pham TQ, Lombard L, Crous PW, Wingfield MJ. (2018) New species of Cylindrocladiella from plantation soils in South-East Asia. MycoKeys 32:1-24.
10.3897/mycokeys.32.23754 |
| Liu FF, Barnes I, Roux J, Wingfield MJ, Chen SF. (2018) Molecular phylogenetics and microsatellite analysis reveal a new pathogenic Ceratocystis species in the Asian-Australian Clade. Plant Pathology 67:1097-1113.
10.1111/ppa.12820 |
| Li GQ, Liu FF, Li JQ, Liu QL, Chen SF. (2018) Botryosphaeriaceae from Eucalyptus plantations and adjacent plants in China. Persoonia 40:63-95.
10.3767/persoonia.2018.40.03 |
| Chen SF, Liu QL, Li GQ, Wingfield MJ, Roux J. (2018) A new genus of Cryphonectriaceae isolated from Lagerstroemia speciosa in southern China. Plant Pathology (1):107-123.
10.1111/ppa.12723 |
| Xie YJ, Arnold RJ, Wu ZH, Chen SF, Du AP, Luo JZ. (2017) Advances in eucalypt research in China. Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering
10.15302/J-FASE-2017171 |
| Chen SF, Liu QL, Li GQ, Wingfield MJ. (2017) Quambalaria species associated with eucalypt diseases in southern China. Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering 4(4):433-447.
10.15302/J-FASE-2017173 |
| Li JQ, Wingfield MJ, Liu QL, Barnes I, Roux J, Lombard L, Crous PW, Chen SF. (2017) Calonectria species isolated from Eucalyptus plantations and nurseries in South China.. IMA Fungus 8(2):259-294.
10.5598/imafungus.2017.08.02.04 |
| Liu QL, Chen SF. (2017) Two novel species of Calonectria isolated from soil in a natural forest in China. MycoKeys 26:25-60.
10.3897/mycokeys.26.14688 |
| Liu QL, Chen SF. (2017) Two novel species of Calonectria isolated from soil in a natural forest in China. MycoKeys 26:25-60.
10.3897/mycokeys.26.14688 |
| Li JQ, Wingfield MJ, Liu QL, Barnes I, Roux J, Lorenzo L, Crous PW, Chen SF. (2017) Calonectria species isolated from Eucalyptus plantations and nurseries in South China. IMA FUNGUS 8(2):259-286.
10.5598/imafungus.2017.08.02.04 |
| Liu QL, Li GQ, Li JQ, Chen SF. (2016) Botrytis eucalypti, a novel species isolated from diseased Eucalyptus seedlings in South China. Mycological Progress 15:1057.
10.1007/s11557-016-1229-1 |
| Mausse-Sitoe SND, Chen SF, Wingfield MJ, Roux J. (2016) Diseases of eucalypts in the central and northern provinces of Mozambique. Southern Forests 78(3):169-183.
10.2989/20702620.2015.1126780 |
| Mausse-Sitoe SND, Rodas C, Wingfield MJ, Chen SF, Roux J. (2016) Endophytic Cryphonectriaceae on native Myrtales: possible origin of Chrysoporthe canker on plantation-grown Eucalyptus. Fungal Biology 120(6-7):827-835.
10.1016/j.funbio.2016.03.005 |
| Mausse-Sitoe SND, Rodas C.A, Wingfield M.J, Chen SF, Roux J.. (2016) Endophytic Cryphonectriaceae on native Myrtales: possible origin of Chrysoporthe. Fungal Biology
10.1016/j.funbio.2016.03.005 |
| Chen SF, van der Merwe NA, Wingfield MJ, Roux J. (2016) Population structure of Holocryphia capensis (Cryphonectriaceae) from Metrosideros angustifolia and its pathogenicity to Eucalyptus species. Australasian Plant Pathology 45(2):201-207.
10.1007/s13313-016-0399-2 |
| Chen SF, Wingfield MJ, Li GQ, Liu FF. (2016) Corticimorbus sinomyrti gen. et sp. nov. (Cryphonectriaceae) pathogenic to native Rhodomyrtus tomentosa (Myrtaceae) in South China. Plant Pathology
10.1111/ppa.12507 |
| Jimu L, Chen SF, Wingfield MJ, Mwenje E, Roux J. (2016) The Eucalyptus stem canker pathogen Teratosphaeria gauchensis represents distinct genetic groups in Africa and South America. Forest Pathology
10.1111/efp.12249 |
| Jimu L, Chen SF, Wingfield MJ, Mwenje E, Roux J. (2016) Three genetic groups of the Eucalyptus stem canker pathogen Teratosphaeria zuluensis introduced into Africa from an unknown source. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 109(21-33)
10.1007/s10482-015-0606-0 |
| Chen SF, Li GQ, Liu FF, Michailides TJ. (2015) Novel species of Botryosphaeriaceae associated with shoot blight of pistachio. Mycologia 107(4):780–792.
10.3852/14-242 |
| Li GQ, Arnold RJ, Liu FF, Li JQ, Chen SF. (2015) Identification and pathogenicity of Lasiodiplodia species from Eucalyptus urophylla × grandis, Polyscias balfouriana and Bougainvillea spectabilis in southern China. Journal of Phytopathology 163(11/12):956-967.
10.1111/jph.12398 |
| Liu FF, Mbenoun M, Barnes I, Roux J, Wingfield MJ, Li GQ, Li JQ, Chen SF. (2015) New Ceratocystis species from Eucalyptus and Cunninghamia in South China. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 107(6):1451–1473.
10.1007/s10482-015-0441-3 |
| Lombard L, Chen SF, Mou X, Zhou XD, Crous PW, Wingfield MJ. (2015) New species, hyper-diversity and potential importance of Calonectria spp. from Eucalyptus in South China. Studies in Mycology 80:151-188.
10.1016/j.simyco.2014.11.003 |
| Chen SF, Morgan DP, Hasey JK, Anderson K, Michailides TJ. (2014) Phylogeny, Morphology, Distribution, and Pathogenicity of Botryosphaeriaceae and Diaporthaceae from English Walnut in California. Plant Disease 98:636–652.
10.1094/PDIS-07-13-0706-RE |
| Chen SF, Morgan DP, Michailides TJ. (2014) Botryosphaeriaceae and Diaporthaceae associated with panicle and shoot blight pistachio in California, USA. Fungal Diversity 67(1):157-179.
10.1007/s13225-014-0285-6 |
| Crous PW, Wingfield MJ, Guarro J, Cheewangkoon R, van der Bank M, Swart WJ, Stchigel AM, Cano-Lira JF, Roux J, Madrid H, Damm U, Wood AR, Shuttleworth LA, Hodges CS, Munster M, de Jesús Yáñez-Morales M, Zúñiga-Estrada L, Cruywagen EM, de Hoog GS, Silvera C, Najafzadeh J, Davison EM, Davison PJN, Barrett MD, Barrett RL, Manamgoda DS, Minnis AM, Kleczewski NM, Luke Flory S, Castlebury LA, Clay K, Hyde KD, Maússe-Sitoe SND, Chen S, Lechat C, Hairaud M, Lesage-Meessen L, Pawłowska J, Wilk M, Śliwińska-Wyrzychowska A, Mętrak M, Wrzosek M, Pavlic-Zupanc D, Maleme HM, Slippers B, MacCormack WP, Archuvy DI, Grünwald NJ, Teresa Tellería M, Dueñas M, Martín MP, Marincowitz S, de Beer ZW, et al. (2013) Fungal Planet description sheets: 154–213. Persoonia 31:188-295.
10.3767/003158513X675925 |
| Thomidis T, Exadaktylou E, Chen SF. (2013) Diaporthe neotheicola, a new threat for Kiwifruit in Greece. Crop Protection 47:35–40.
10.1016/j.cropro.2012.12.024 |
| Chen SF, Wingfield MJ, Roux J. (2013) Diversimorbus metrosiderotis gen. et sp. nov. and three new species of Holocryphia (Cryphonectriaceae) associated with cankers on native Metrosideros angustifolia trees in South Africa. Fungal Biology 117:289–310.
10.1016/j.funbio.2013.02.005 |
| Chen SF, Fitchner E, Morgon DP, Michailides TJ. (2013) First report of Lasiodiplodia citricola and Neoscytalidium dimidiatum Causing English Walnut Graft Union Death in California. Plant Disease 97:993.
10.1094/PDIS-10-12-1000-PDN |
| Chen SF, Morgon DP, Beede RH, Michailides TJ. (2013) First Report of Lasiodiplodia theobromae associated with Stem Canker of Almond in California. Plant Disease 97:994.
10.1094/PDIS-11-12-1033-PDN |
| Chen S, Van Wyk M, Roux J, Wingfield MJ, Xie Y, Zhou X. (2013) Taxonomy and pathogenicity of Ceratocystis species on Eucalyptus trees in South China, including C. chinaeucensis sp. nov. Fungal Diversity 58:267-279.
10.1007/s13225-012-0214-5 |
 Chen SF, Wingfield MJ, Roets F, Roux J. (2013) A serious canker disease caused by Immersiporthe knoxdaviesiana gen. et sp. nov. (Cryphonectriaceae) on native Rapanea melanophloeos in South Africa. Plant Pathology 62(3):667-678.
10.1111/j.1365-3059.2012.02671.x |
| Chen S, Gryzenhout M, Roux J, Xie Y, Wingfield MJ, Zhou X. (2011) Novel species of Celoporthe from Eucalyptus and Syzygium trees in China and Indonesia. Mycologia 103(6):1384-1410.
10.3852/11-006 |
| Chen SF, Barnes I, Chungu D, Roux J, Wingfield MJ, Xie YJ, Zhou XD. (2011) High population diversity and increasing importance of the Eucalyptus stem canker pathogen, Teratosphaeria zuluensis, in South China. Australasian Plant Pathology 40(4):407-415.
10.1007/s13313-011-0051-0 |
| Chen SF, Lombard L, Roux J, Xie YJ, Wingfield MJ, Zhou XD. (2011) Novel species of Calonectria associated with Eucalyptus leaf blight in Southeast China. Persoonia: Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi 26:1-12.
10.3767/003158511X555236 |
| Chen SF, Pavlic D, Roux J, Slippers B, Xie YJ, Wingfield MJ, Zhou XD. (2011) Characterization of Botryosphaeriaceae from plantation-grown Eucalyptus species in South China. Plant Pathology 60(4):739-751.
10.1111/j.1365-3059.2011.02431.x |
| Chen SF, Gryzenhout M, Roux J, Xie YJ, Wingfield MJ, Zhou XD. (2010) Identification and pathogenicity of Chrysoporthe cubensis on Eucalyptus and Syzygium spp. in South China. Plant Disease 94(9):1143-1150.
10.1094/PDIS-94-9-1143 |
| Zhou XD, Xie YJ, Chen SF, Wingfield MJ. (2008) Diseases of eucalypt plantations in China: Challenges and opportunities. Fungal Diversity 32:1-7.
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