Publications

May 2016

Seasonal succession of fungi associated with Ips typographus beetles and their phoretic mites in an outbreak region of Finland

Linnakoski R, Mahilainen S, Harrington A, Vanhanen H et al.

PLoS ONE

The ophiostomatoid fungi (Microascales and Ophiostomatales, Ascomycota) are common associates of Ips typographus, and include...

May 2016

Fungal Genomics Challenges the Dogma of Name-Based Biosecurity

McTaggart AR, van der Nest MA, Steenkamp ET, Roux J et al.

PLoS Pathogens

May 2016

The Ophiostoma clavatum species complex: a newly defined group in the Ophiostomatales including three novel taxa

Linnakoski R, Jankowiak R, Villari C, Kirisits T et al.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Two species of blue-stain fungi with similar morphologies, Ophiostoma brunneo-ciliatum and Ophiostoma clavatum, are associates of...

May 2016

Identification and genetic diversity of two invasive Pissodes spp. Germar (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in their introduced range in the southern hemisphere

Wondafrash M, Slippers B, Garnas J, Roux G et al.

Biological Invasions

During the first half of the twentieth century, two accidental cases of introduction of Pissodes weevils were recorded from the...

Apr 2016

New host range and distribution of Ceratocystis pirilliformis in South Africa

Lee DH, Roux J, Wingfield BD, Barnes I et al.

European Journal of Plant Pathology

Ceratocystis pirilliformis was first described from wounds on Eucalyptus trees in Australia and subsequently found as a common...

Jul 2016

Crotalarieae and Genisteae of the South African Great Escarpment are nodulated by novel Bradyrhizobium species with unique and diverse symbiotic loci

Beukes CW, Stepkowski T, Venter SN, Clapa T et al.

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

The genus Bradyrhizobium contains predominantly nitrogen-fixing legume symbionts. Phylogenetic analysis of the genes responsible...

2016

Structure Based Docking and Molecular Dynamic Studies of Plasmodial Cysteine Proteases against a South African Natural Compound and its Analogs

Musyoka TM, Kanzi AM, Lobb KA, Tastan Bishop Ö

Scientific Reports

Mar 2016

Diseases of eucalypts in the central and northern provinces of Mozambique

Mausse-Sitoe SND, Chen SF, Wingfield MJ, Roux J

Southern Forests

Mar 2016

Wounds on Rapanea melanophloeos provide habitat for a large diversity of Ophiostomatales including four new species

Musvuugwa T, de Beer ZW, Duong TA, Dreyer LL et al.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Rapanea melanophloeos, an important canopy tree in Afromontane forests, is commonly utilised for medicinal bark harvesting....