Publications

Sep 2020

No to Neocosmospora: Phylogenomic and Practical Reasons for Continued Inclusion of the Fusarium solani Species Complex in the Genus Fusarium

O'Donnel K, Al-Hatmi AMS, Aoki T, Brankovics B et al.

mSphere

This article is to alert medical mycologists and infectious disease specialists of recent name changes of medically important...

Sep 2020

Invasive gall-forming wasps that threaten non-native plantation-grown Eucalyptus: diversity and invasion patterns

Dittrich-Schröder G, Hurley BP, Wingfield MJ, Nahrung HF et al.

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Abstract Gall‐forming hymenopterans of Eucalyptus species are highly successful invaders causing significant damage in non‐native...

Aug 2020

The granulate ambrosia beetle, Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae), and its fungal symbiont found in South Africa

Nel WJ, De Beer ZW, Wingfield MJ, Duong TA

Zootaxa

Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motchulsky) is a native Asian ambrosia beetle that has been accidentally introduced to many countries...

Jul 2020

Selective feeding behaviors illuminate patterns of sap beetle associations with ophiostomatoid fungi

Mbenoun M, Wingfield MJ, Misse AC, Roux J

Symbiosis

Jul 2020

Next generation sequencing reveals past and current widespread occurrence of maize yellow mosaic virus in South Africa

Welgemoed T, Pierneef R, Read DA, Schulze SE et al.

European Journal of Plant Pathology

Maize yellow mosaic virus (MaYMV) is a single-stranded RNA polerovirus first identified in China. MaYMV was recently reported...

Jun 2020

Poroid Hymenochaetaceae associated with trees showing wood-rot symptoms in the Garden Route National Park of South Africa

Thcotet Tchoumi JM, Coetzee MPA, Roux J

Mycologia

Poroid Hymenochaetaceae associated with wood rots of trees in three timber-harvesting compartments of the Garden Route National...

Jul 2020

Microanalytical techniques for phenotyping secondary xylem

Karannagoda, N, Spokevicius A, Hussey S, Bossinger G

IAWA Journal

Abstract The products of secondary xylem are of significant biological and commercial importance, and as a result, the biology of...

Jul 2020

Ophiostomatoid fungi associated with mites phoretic on bark beetles in Qinghai, China

Chang R, Duong TA, Taerum SJ, Wingfield MJ et al.

IMA Fungus

AbstractBark beetle galleries are complex ecosystems where many microbes and other arthropods co-exist with the beetles. Fungi...

Dec 2020

A new species of Raffaelea from beetle-infested Leucaena leucocephala

Procter M, Nel WJ, Marincowitz S, Crous PW et al.

Fungal Systematics and Evolution

Species of Raffaelea (Ophiostomatales: Ascomycota) are obligate symbionts of ambrosia beetles, some of which pose a substantial...