STUDENT PROJECTS

2010: Ph. D student, Stephen Taerum, project title "Bark beetle-mite-fungus symbioses in Southwestern China".
2009: Ph. D student, Maythasith Konkarn, project title “Conifer-infesting bark beetles and their associated fungi from Thailand”.
2008: Ph. D student, XinTao Mou, project title “Taxonomy, phylogeny and population structures of Calonectria species from eucalypts in China”.
2007: Ph. D student, ShuaiFei Chen, project title “Fungal diseases of eucalypts in China”.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Chen SF, Gryzenhout M, Roux J, Xie YJ, Wingfield MJ, Zhou XD. 2010. Identification and Pathogenicity of Chrysoporthe cubensis on Eucalyptus and Syzygium spp. in South China. Plant Disease 94, 1143-1150.
  • Grobbelaar JW, de Beer ZW, Bloomer P, Wingfield MJ, Zhou XD, Wingfield BD, 2010. Discovery of Ophiostoma tsotsi on Eucalyptus wood chips in China. Mycoscience (in press) DOI:10.1007/s10267-010-0081-4.
  • Lombard L, Zhou XD, Crous PW, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ. 2010. Calonectria species associated with cutting rot of Eucalyptus. Persoonia 24, 1-11.
  • Paciura D, de Beer ZW, Jacobs K, Zhou XD, Ye H, Wingfield MJ, 2010. Eight new Leptographium species associated with tree-infesting bark beetles in China. Persoonia 25, 94-108.
  • Paciura D, Zhou XD, De Beer ZW,Jacobs,Ye H, Wingfield MJ. 2010. Characterisation of synnematous bark beetle-associated fungi from China,including Graphium carbonarium sp. nov. Fungal Diversity 40, 75-88.
  • Lu M, Zhou XD, De Beer ZW, Wingfield MJ, Sun JH. 2009. Ophiostomatoid fungi associated with the invasive pine-infesting bark beetle, Dendroctonus valens, in China. Fungal Diversity 38, 133-145.
  • Zhou XD, De Beer ZW, Xie Y, Pegg GS, Wingfield MJ. 2007. DNA-based identification of Quambalaria pitereka causing severe leaf blight of Corymbia citriodora in China. Fungal Diversity 25, 245-254.
  • Zhou XD, Xie YJ, Chen SF, Wingfield MJ. 2008. Diseases of eucalypt plantations in China: challenges and opportunities. Fungal Diversity 32, 1-7.
  • Cortinas MN, Burgess T, Dell B, Xu DP, Crous PW, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ. 2006. First record of Colletogloeopsis zuluense comb. nov., causing a stem canker of Eucalyptus in China. Mycological Research 110, 229-236.
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