Publications
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2017
South Africa can’t afford to see its universities pitch over the precipice
Wingfield BD
The Conversation
Dec 2017
Contrasting carbon metabolism in saprotrophic and pathogenic Microascalean fungi from Protea trees
Aylward J, Wingfield BD, Dreyer LL, Roets F et al.
Fungal Ecology
2017
Money woes force South Africa to revisit how it rewards researchers
Wingfield BD, Vaughan, Kit
The Conversation
Oct 2017
Urban trees: bridge-heads for forest pest invasions and sentinels for early detection
Paap T, Burgess TI, Wingfield MJ
Biological Invasions
Urban trees have been increasingly appreciated for the many benefits they provide. As concentrated hubs of human-mediated...
Jan 2018
Phytophthora Contamination in a Nursery and Its Potential Dispersal into the Natural Environment
Simamora AV, Paap T, Howard K, Stukely MJC et al.
Plant Disease
A detailed site investigation of a eucalypt nursery suffering disease losses revealed the causal agent to be Phytophthora...
Oct 2017
Bretziella, a new genus to accommodate the oak wilt fungus, Ceratocystis fagacearum (Microascales, Ascomycota)
De Beer ZW, Marincowitz S, Duong TA, Wingfield MJ
MycoKeys
Recent reclassification of the Ceratocystidaceae (Microascales) based on multi-gene phylogenetic inference has shown that the oak...
Dec 2017
Diversity and bioactivities of nostocacean cyanobacteria isolated from paddy soil in Vietnam
Pham, Hang T.L., Nguyen, Lien T.T., Duong, Tuan A., Bui, Dung T.T. et al.
Systematic and Applied Microbiology
Nostocacean cyanobacteria are one of the important components of paddy fields due to their ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen...
Sep 2017
Biology of Litosermyle ocanae in Colombian Pinus patula plantations
Rodas CA, Hurley BP, Bolaños MD, Granados GM et al.
Southern Forests
Feb 2017
Phenolic content as an indicator of resistance of cowpea seedlings to Sclerotium rolfsii.
Appolinaire A., Thierry R., Theresa A.S. Aveling
European Journal of Plant Pathology
The role of phenolics in plant tolerance to pathogen infection is well documented. The objective of the present preliminary...
South Africa can’t afford to see its universities pitch over the precipice
Brenda Wingfield · The Conversation, 2017
Contrasting carbon metabolism in saprotrophic and pathogenic Microascalean fungi from Protea trees
Janneke Aylward, Brenda Wingfield, Dreyer LL, Roets F, Mike Wingfield, Emma Steenkamp · Fungal Ecology, Dec 2017 · DOI
Money woes force South Africa to revisit how it rewards researchers
Brenda Wingfield, Vaughan, Kit · The Conversation, 2017
Urban trees: bridge-heads for forest pest invasions and sentinels for early detection
Trudy Paap, Treena Burgess, Mike Wingfield · Biological Invasions, Oct 2017 · DOI
Phytophthora Contamination in a Nursery and Its Potential Dispersal into the Natural Environment
Simamora AV, Trudy Paap, Howard K, Stukely MJC, Hardy GEStJ, Treena Burgess · Plant Disease, Jan 2018 · DOI
Bretziella, a new genus to accommodate the oak wilt fungus, Ceratocystis fagacearum (Microascales, Ascomycota)
Wilhelm de Beer, Seonju Marincowitz, Tuan Duong, Mike Wingfield · MycoKeys, Oct 2017 · DOI
Diversity and bioactivities of nostocacean cyanobacteria isolated from paddy soil in Vietnam
Pham, Hang T.L., Nguyen, Lien T.T., Tuan Duong, Bui, Dung T.T., Doan, Que T., Nguyen, Ha T.T. et al. · Systematic and Applied Microbiology, Dec 2017 · DOI
Biology of Litosermyle ocanae in Colombian Pinus patula plantations
Carlos Rodas, Brett Hurley, Bolaños MD, Ginna M. Granados, Mike Wingfield · Southern Forests, Sep 2017 · DOI
Phenolic content as an indicator of resistance of cowpea seedlings to Sclerotium rolfsii.
Appolinaire A., Thierry R., Terry Aveling · European Journal of Plant Pathology, Feb 2017 · DOI