Publications

Sep 2005

The Protistan Origins of Animals and Fungi

Steenkamp ET, Wright J, Baldauf SL

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Recent molecular studies suggest that Opisthokonta, the eukaryotic supergroup including animals and fungi, should be expanded to...

Apr 2006

Implications of molecular characters for the phylogeny of the Microbotryaceae (Basidiomycota: Urediniomycetes)

Kemler M, Göker M, Oberwinkler F, Begerow D

BMC Evolutionary Biology

AbstractBackgroundAnther smuts of the basidiomycetous genusMicrobotryumon Caryophyllaceae are important model organisms for many...

2006

A collaborative project to better understand Siricid-Fungal symbioses

Slippers B, Vasiliauskas R, Hurley BP, Stenlid J et al.

Proceedings of SNS Meeting

2006

Molecular identification of some African strains of Ralstonia solanacearum from eucalypt and potato

Fouche-Weich J, Berger D, Poussier S, Trigalet-Demery D et al.

Journal of General Plant Pathology

2006

Apple polygalacturonase inhibiting protein1 expressed in transgenic tobacco inhibits polygalacturonases from fungal pathogens of apple and the anthracnose pathogen of lupins

Oelofse D, Dubery IA, Meyer R, Arendse MS et al.

Phytochemistry

2006

Biological, physiological and pathogenic variation in a genetically homogenous population of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense

Groenewald S, van den Berg N, Marasas WFO, Viljoen A

Australasian Plant Pathology

Mar 2006

The application of high-throughput Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms in assessing genetic diversity in Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense

Groenewald S, van den Berg N, Marasas WFO, Viljoen A

Mycological Research

Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) is responsible for fusarium wilt of bananas. The pathogen consists of several variants...

May 2006

Celoporthe dispersa gen. et sp. nov. from native Myrtales in South Africa

Nakabonge G, Gryzenhout M, Roux J, Wingfield BD et al.

Studies in Mycology

In a survey for Cryphonectria and Chrysoporthe species on Myrtales in South Africa, a fungus resembling the stem canker pathogen...

May 2006

A disease epidemic on Zizyphus mucronata in the Kruger National Park caused by Coniodictyum chevalieri

Maier W, Khoza T, Harmse N, Wingfield BD et al.

Studies in Mycology

This study records a severe outbreak of a disease on Zizyphus mucronata (Rhamnaceae) in Greater Kruger National Park, South...