Publications

Mar 2022

Partially Resistant Avocado Rootstock Dusa® Shows Prolonged Upregulation of Nucleotide Binding-Leucine Rich Repeat Genes in Response to Phytophthora cinnamomi Infection

Fick A, Swart V, Backer R, Bombarely A et al.

Frontiers in Plant Science

Avocado is an important agricultural food crop in many countries worldwide. Phytophthora cinnamomi, a hemibiotrophic oomycete,...

Jan 2022

Phenolic degradation by catechol dioxygenases is associated with pathogenic fungi with a necrotrophic lifestyle in the Ceratocystidaceae. G3

Soal, Nicole C, Coetzee, Martin P A, van der Nest, Magriet A, Hammerbacher, Almuth et al.

Fungal species of the Ceratocystidaceae grow on their host plants using a variety of different lifestyles, from saprophytic to...

Mar 2022

Worldwide diversity of endophytic fungi and insects associated with dormant tree twigs

Franić I, Prospero S, Adamson K, Paap T et al.

Scientific Data

AbstractInternational trade in plants and climate change are two of the main factors causing damaging tree pests (i.e. fungi and...

Mar 2022

Diversity of Lepidoptera associated with macadamia nut damage in South Africa and development of molecular tools to monitor pest populations

Smith AK, Slippers B, Hurley BP, Fourie G

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Abstract Lepidopteran pests are of major economic importance to macadamia growers worldwide. In South Africa, four species have...

Jan 2022

Calonectria species, including four novel taxa, associated with Eucalyptus in Malaysia

Pham NQ, Marincowitz S, Chen SF, Yaparudin J et al.

Mycological Progress

Jul 2022

Lecanosticta pharomachri and its newly discovered sexual state causing a serious needle disease of Pinus spp. in Colombia

Theron CA, Marincowitz S, Rodas CA, Wingfield MJ et al.

Plant Disease

Brown spot needle blight (BSNB), caused by the fungal pathogen Lecanosticta acicola, is a well-known disease of Pinus spp. in...

Feb 2022

Draft genome assemblies of Fusarium marasasianum, Huntiella abstrusa, two Immersiporthe knoxdaviesiana isolates, Macrophomina pseudophaseolina, Macrophomina phaseolina, Naganishia randhawae, and Pseudocercospora cruenta

Wingfield BD, De Vos L, Wilson AM, Duong AT et al.

IMA Fungus

May 2022

Uncovering the mycorrhizal community of two Habenaria orchids in South Africa

Makwela MC, Hammerbacher A, Vivas M, Coetzee MPA et al.

South African Journal of Botany

Feb 2022

Toxicity of the pesticides Imidacloprid, Difenoconazole and Glyphosate alone and in binary and ternary mixtures to winter honey bees: Effects on survival and antioxidative defenses

Pal E, Almasri H, Paris L, Diogon M et al.

Toxics

To explain losses of bees that could occur after the winter season, we studied the effects of the insecticide imidacloprid, the...