Publications

Mar 2019

Black root rot: A long known but little understood disease

Nel WJ, Duong TA, De Beer ZW, Wingfield MJ

Plant Pathology

Black root rot caused by the pathogen Thielaviopsis basicola has been known since the mid 1800s. The disease is important on many...

Jul 2019

First Report of Fusarium euwallaceae on Persea americana in South Africa

Van den Berg N, Du Toit M, Morgan SW, Fourie G et al.

Plant Disease

Avocado is an important fruit commodity in South Africa for both the local and export market. A total of 17, 500 ha of avocado...

Mar 2019

Development of marama bean, an orphan legume, as a crop

Cullis C, Lawler DW, Chimwamurombe P, Kunert K et al.

Food and Energy Security

AbstractAdvances have been recently made in the breeding and characterization of three major legume crops of the semiarid...

Feb 2019

Roots and nodules responds differently to P starvation in the mediterranean-type legume Virgilia divaricata

Stevens GG, Pérez-Fernández MA, Morcillo RJL, Kleinert A et al.

Frontiers in Plant Science

<i>Virgilia divaricata</i> is a tree legume that grows in the Cape Floristic Region (CFA) in poor nutrient soils. A comparison...

May 2019

Genomic analysis of the aggressive tree pathogen Ceratocystis albifundus

van der Nest MA, Steenkamp ET, Roodt D, Soal NA et al.

Fungal Biology

The overall goal of this study was to determine whether the genome of an important plant pathogen in Africa, Ceratocystis...

Feb 2019

The NONEXPRESSOR OF PATHOGENESIS-RELATED GENES 1 (NPR1) and Related Family: Mechanistic Insights in Plant Disease Resistance

Backer R, Naidoo S, van den Berg N

Frontiers in Plant Science

The NONEXPRESSOR OF PATHOGENESIS-RELATED GENES 1 (NPR1) and related NPR1-like proteins are a functionally similar, yet...

Feb 2019

Rosellinia necatrix infection induces differential gene expression between tolerant and susceptible avocado rootstocks

Zumaquero A, Martinez-Ferri E, Matas AJ, Reeksting B et al.

PLoS ONE

Rosellinia necatrix is the causal agent of avocado white root rot (WRR). Control of this soil-borne disease is difficult, and the...

Feb 2019

Application of genomic tools to avocado (Persea americana) breeding: SNP discovery for genotyping and germplasm characterization

Kuhn DN, Livingstone DS, Richards JH, Manosalva P et al.

Scientia Horticulturae

Feb 2019

The pandemic strain of Austropuccinia psidii causes myrtle rust in New Zealand and Singapore

du Plessis E, Granados GM, Barnes I, Ho WH et al.

Australasian Plant Pathology