Featured Publications

• Which fungus is causing the disease grey leaf spot on maize in southern Africa?
  When you grow maize plants in warm and humid climates you will often find long rectangular grey to tan lesions on the leaves (Figure 1A). This disease is known as grey leaf spot. The pathogen not only uses nutrients from the plant it also reduces the plan
• INVASIVE INSECTS – POTENTIAL VECTORS OF PLANT PATHOGENS
  Hurley BP, Slippers B, Wingfield BD, Govender P, Smith JE, Wingfield MJ. 2009. Genetic diversity of Bradysia difformis (Sciaridae: Diptera) populations reflects movement of an invasive insect between forestry nurseries. Biological Invasions DOI 10.1007/s1
• A fungus from Africa threatens our Eucalyptus plantations
  1. Myburg H, Gryzenhout M, Heath R, Roux J, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ (2002). Cryphonectria canker on Tibouchina in South Africa. Mycological Research 106, 1299-1306. Heath, R.N., J. Roux, M. Gryzenhout, A.J. Carnegie, I.W. S
• UNEXPLORED OPHIOSTOMATOID FUNGAL DIVERSITY IN SOUTH AFRICA
  Kamgan NG, Jacobs K, de Beer ZW, Wingfield MJ, Roux J. 2008. Ceratocystis and Ophiostoma species, including three new taxa, associated with wounds on native South African trees. Fungal Diversity 29: 37-59.
• DNA bar-coding reveals the origin of the invasive Bronze bug
  Nadel R.L., Slippers B., Scholes M.C., Lawson S.A., Noack A.E., Wilcken C.F., Bouvet J.P. and Wingfield M.J. (in press) DNA bar-coding reveals source and patterns of Thaumastocoris peregrinus invasions in South Africa and South America, Biological Invasio
• Unexplored ophiostomatoid fungal diversity in South Africa
  Kamgan NG, Jacobs K, de Beer ZW, Wingfield MJ, Roux J. 2008. Ceratocystis and Ophiostoma species, including three new taxa, associated with wounds on native South African trees. Fungal Diversity 29: 37-59.
• Plant genes that are part of the same biological process maintain the same gene "switches"
  Creux, N. M., Ranik, M et al. (2008). Comparative analysis of orthologous cellulose synthase promoters from Arabidopsis, Populus and Eucalyptus: evidence of conserved regulatory elements in angiosperms. New Phytologist. 179:722-737.
• Complete genetic linkage maps from an interspecific cross between Fusarium circinatum and Fusarium subglutinans
  De Vos, L., Myburg, A.A., Wingfield. M.J., Desjardins, A.E., Gordon, T.R. & Wingfield, B.D. 2007. Complete genetic linkage maps from an interspecific between Fusarium circinatum and Fusarium subglutinans. Fungal Genetics and Biology, doi: 10.1016/j.fgb.20
• Phylogeny of the Botryosphaeriaceae
  De Wet J, Slippers B, Preisig O, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ. 2008. Phylogeny of the Botryosphaeriaceae reveals patterns of host association. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46, 116-126.
• Fungal canker pathogens on waterberry and Eucalyptus trees in South Africa
  Pavlic D, Slippers B, Coutinho TA, Wingfield MJ. 2007. Botryosphaeriaceae occurring on native Syzygium cordatum in South Africa and their potential threat to Eucalyptus. Plant Pathology 56:624-636.
• Using DNA sequence data to characterise fungal pathogens of trees
  Hunter, G., B.D. Wingfield, P.W. Crous, and M.J. Wingfield (2006). A multi-gene phylogeny for species of Mycosphaerella occurring on Eucalyptus leaves. Studies in Mycology 55, 147-161.
• Characterization of Fusarium oxysporum isolates from Ethiopia using SSR, AFLPs and DNA sequence analyses
  Bogale, M., B.D. Wingfield, M.J. Wingfield, and E.T. Steenkamp (2006). Characterisation of Fusarium oxysporum isolates from Ethiopia using AFLP, SSR and DNA sequence analyses. Fungal Diversity 23, 51-66.
• Dying clove trees infected by a novel fungus
  Van Wyk, M., J. Roux, I. Barnes, B.D. Wingfield, E.C.Y. Liew, B. Assa, B.A. Summerell and M.J. Wingfield (2004). Ceratocystis polychroma sp. nov., a new species from Syzygium aromaticum in Sulawesi. Studies in Mycology, 50, 2