Publications

Jun 2022

Real-Time Feedback-Driven Single-Particle Tracking: A Survey and Perspective

van Heerden B, Vickers NA, Krüger, TPJ, Andersson, SB

Small

AbstractReal‐time feedback‐driven single‐particle tracking (RT‐FD‐SPT) is a class of techniques in the field of single‐particle...

Jun 2022

Differing Responses to Phytophthora cinnamomi Infection in Susceptible and Partially Resistant Persea americana (Mill.) Rootstocks: A Case for the Role of Receptor-Like Kinases and Apoplastic Proteases

Backer R, Engelbrecht J, van den Berg N

Frontiers in Plant Science

The hemibiotrophic plant pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi Rands is the most devastating pathogen of avocado (Persea americana...

Jun 2022

First report of Dutch Elm Disease caused by Ophiostoma novo-ulmi in South Korea

Lee DH, Nam Y, Wingfield MJ, Park H

Forests

During a routine survey conducted in July 2021, several dead and dying Ulmus macrocarpa trees were observed in an urban forest...

Jun 2022

Intra-Species genomic variation in the pine pathogen Fusarium circinatum

Maphosa MN, Steenkamp ET, Kanzi AM, Van Wyk S et al.

Journal of Fungi

Fusarium circinatum is an important global pathogen of pine trees. Genome plasticity has been observed in different isolates of...

Jun 2022

Detection and prevalence of Rosellinia necatrix in South African avocado orchards

Hartley J, Engelbrecht, J, van den Berg, N

European Journal of Plant Pathology

AbstractRosellinia necatrixis an ascomycete that causes white root rot (WRR) of several plant host species resulting in economic...

Jun 2022

Genetic diversity of the two-spotted stink bug Bathycoelia distincta (Pentatomidae) associated with macadamia orchards in South Africa

Pal E, Allison JD, Hurley BP, Slippers B et al.

PLoS ONE

The South African macadamia industry is severely affected by a complex of stink bugs, dominated by the two-spotted stink bug,...

Jun 2022

Four new species of Harringtonia: unravelling the laurel wilt fungal genus

Araújo JPM, Li U, Duong TA, Smith ME et al.

Journal of Fungi

Symbiosis between beetles and fungi arose multiple times during the evolution of both organisms. Some of the most biologically...

Jun 2022

First report of grapevine polerovirus 1 in South Africa

Otlotleng Moloto, Gerhard Pietersen, Dirk Swanevelder, Genevieve Thompson et al.

Australasian Plant Disease Notes

May 2022

Unraveling plant cell death during Phytophthora Infection

Midgley KA, van den Berg N, Swart V

Microorganisms

Oomycetes form a distinct phylogenetic lineage of fungus-like eukaryotic microorganisms, of which several hundred organisms are...