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  • Occurrence and pathogenicity of Neofusicoccum parvum and N. mangiferae on ornamental Tibouchina species 
    Heath, R.N. (Ronald Natale); Roux, Jolanda; Slippers, Bernard; Drenth, Andre; Pennycook, S.R.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Wingfield, Michael J. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
    Species in the Botryosphaeriaceae are important canker pathogens of woody plants, including Eucalyptus spp. The recent discovery of the Eucalyptus pathogen, Chrysoporthe austroafricana, on ornamental Tibouchina trees raised ...
  • One fungus, one name : defining the genus Fusarium in a scientifically robust way that preserves longstanding use 
    Geiser, David M.; Aoki, Takayuki; Bacon, Charles W.; Baker, Scott E.; Bhattacharyya, Madan K.; Brandt, Mary E.; Brown, Daren W.; Burgess, Lester W.; Chulze, Sofia; Coleman, Jeffrey J.; Correll, James C.; Covert, Sarah F.; Crous, Pedro W.; Cuomo, Christina A.; De Hoog, G. Sybren; Di Pietro, Antonio; Elmer, Wade H.; Frandsen, Rasmus J.; Freeman, Stanley; Gagkaeva, Tatiana; Glenn, Anthony E.; Gordon, Thomas R. (Tom); Gregory, Nancy F.; Hammond-Kosack, Kim E.; Hanson, Linda E.; Jímenez-Gasco, María del Mar; Kang, Seogchan; Kistler, H. Corby; Kuldau, Gretchen A.; Leslie, John F.; Logrieco, Antonio; Lu, Guozhong; Lysøe, Erik; Ma, Li-Jun; McCormick, Susan P.; Migheli, Quirico; Moretti, Antonio; Munaut, Françoise; O’Donnell, Kerry; Pfenning, Ludwig; Ploetz, Randy C.; Proctor, Robert H.; Rehner, Stephen A.; Robert, Vincent A.; Rooney, Alejandro P.; Bin Salleh, Baharuddin; Scandiani, Maria Mercedes; Scauflaire, Jonathan; Short, Dylan P.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Suga, Haruhisa; Summerell, Brett A.; Sutton, Deanna A.; Thrane, Ulf; Trail, Francis; Van Diepeningen, Anne; VanEtten, Hans D.; Viljoen, Altus; Waalwijk, Cees; Ward, Todd J.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Xu, Jin-Rong; Yang, Xiao-Bing; Yli-Mattila, Tapani; Zhang, Ning (The American Phytopathological Society, 2013)
    In this letter, we advocate recognizing the 89 genus Fusarium as the sole name 90 for a group that includes virtually all Fusarium species of importance in plant pathology, 91 mycotoxicology, medicine and basic research. ...
  • One fungus, which genes? Development and assessment of universal primers for potential secondary fungal DNA barcodes 
    Stielow, J.B.; Levesque, C.A.; Seifert, K.A.; Meyer, W.; Irinyi, L.; Smits, D.; Renfurm, R.; Verkley, G.J.M.; Groenewald, M.; Chaduli, D.; Lomascolo, A.; Welti, S.; Lesage-Meessen, L.; Favel, A.; Al-Hatmi, A.M.S.; Damm, U.; Yilmaz, Neriman; Houbraken, J.; Lombard, L.; Quaedvlieg, W.; Binder, M.; Vaas, L.A.I.; Vu, D.; Yurkov, A.; Begerow, D.; Roehl, O.; Guerreiro, M.; Fonseca, A.; Samerpitak, K.; van Diepeningen, A.D.; Dolatabadi, S.; Moreno, L.F.; Casaregola, S.; Mallet, S.; Jacques, Noémie; Roscini, L.; Egidi, E.; Bizet, C.; Garcia-Hermoso, D.; Martin, M.P.; Deng, S.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias; Boekhout, T.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Barnes, Irene; Duong, Tuan A.; Wingfield, Michael J.; De Hoog, G.S.; Crous, Pedro W.; Lewis, C.T.; Hambleton, S.; Moussa, T.A.A.; Al-Zahrani, H.S.; Almaghrabi, O.A.; Louis-Seize, G.; Assabgui, R.; McCormick, W.; Omer, G.; Dukik, K.; Cardinali, G.; Eberhardt, U.; De Vries, M.; Robert, V. (Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, 2015-08-28)
    The aim of this study was to assess potential candidate gene regions and corresponding universal primer pairs as secondary DNA barcodes for the fungal kingdom, additional to ITS rDNA as primary barcode. Amplification ...
  • The Ophiostoma clavatum species complex : a newly defined group in the Ophiostomatales including three novel taxa 
    Linnakoski, Riikka; Jankowiak, Robert; Villari, Caterina; Kirisits, Thomas; Solheim, Halvor; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Wingfield, Michael J. (Springer, 2016-05)
    Two species of blue-stain fungi with similar morphologies, Ophiostoma brunneociliatum and O. clavatum, are associates of bark beetles infesting Pinus spp. in Europe. This has raised questions whether they represent ...
  • Ophiostoma quercus : an unusually diverse and globally widespread tree-infecting fungus 
    Taerum, Stephen J.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Marincowitz, Seonju; Jankowiak, Robert; Wingfield, Michael J. (Elsevier, 2018-09)
    Ophiostoma quercus (Ascomycota, Ophiostomatales) is a globally widespread, insect-vectored fungus that colonizes a wide diversity of hardwood and conifer hosts. Although the fungus is considered to be non-pathogenic, it ...
  • Ophiostoma tsotsi sp. nov., a wound-infesting fungus of hardwood trees in Africa 
    Grobbelaar, J.W. (Johanna Wilhelmina); De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Bloomer, Paulette; Wingfield, Michael J.; Wingfield, Brenda D. (Springer, 2010-01)
    Polymorphic sequence-characterised marker assays from a recent diversity study on the Ascomycete fungus Ophiostoma quercus reported that some isolates from Africa were genetically distinct from O. quercus. In the present ...
  • Ophiostomatalean fungi associated with wood boring beetles in South Africa including two new species 
    Nel, Wilma Janine; Wingfield, Michael J.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Duong, Tuan A. (Springer, 2021-06)
    Ambrosia beetles are small wood inhabiting members of the Curculionidae that have evolved obligate symbioses with fungi. The fungal symbionts concentrate nutrients from within infested trees into a usable form for their ...
  • Ophiostomatoid fungi associated with conifer-infesting beetles and their phoretic mites in Yunnan, China 
    Chang, Runlei; Duong, Tuan A.; Taerum, Stephen J.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Zhou, Xudong; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm (Pensoft Publishers, 2017-12-21)
    The Ophiostomatales is an Ascomycete order of fungi that accommodates several tree pathogens and many species that degrade wood. These fungi are commonly vectored by Scolytine bark and ambrosia beetles. In recent years ...
  • Ophiostomatoid fungi associated with mites phoretic on bark beetles in Qinghai, China 
    Chang, Runlei; Duong, Tuan A.; Taerum, Stephen J.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Zhou, Xudong; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm (International Mycological Association, 2020-07-30)
    Bark beetle galleries are complex ecosystems where many microbes and other arthropods co-exist with the beetles. Fungi isolated from these galleries are often referred to as ‘beetle associates’, but the nature of these ...
  • Ophiostomatoid fungi associated with the spruce bark beetle Ips typographus, including 11 new species from China 
    Chang, Runlei; Duong, Tuan A.; Taerum, Stephen J.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Zhou, X.; Yin, Mingliang; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm (National Herbarium of the Netherlands, 2019-06)
    Ips typographus (Coleoptera, Scolytinae) is a spruce-infesting bark beetle that occurs throughout Europe and Asia. The beetle can cause considerable damage, especially when colonized trees are stressed and beetle populations ...
  • Optimal 10-aminoartemisinins with potent transmission-blocking capabilities for new artemisinin combination therapies–activities against blood stage P. falciparum including PfKI3 C580Y mutants and liver stage P. berghei parasites 
    Wong, Ho Ning; Padin-Irizarry, Vivian; Van der Watt, Mariette Elizabeth; Reader, Janette; Liebenberg, Wilna; Wiesner, Lubbe; Smith, Peter; Eribez, Korina; Winzeler, Elizabeth A.; Kyle, Dennis E.; Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie; Coertzen, Dina; Haynes, Richard K. (Frontiers Media, 2020-01-10)
    We have demonstrated previously that amino-artemisinins including artemiside and artemisone in which an amino group replaces the oxygen-bearing substituents attached to C-10 of the current clinical artemisinin derivatives ...
  • Optimisation of the PCR-invA primers for the detection of Salmonella in drinking and surface waters following a pre-cultivation step 
    Moganedi, K.L.M.; Goyvaerts, E.M.A.; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); Sibara, M.M. (Water Research Council, 2007-04)
    Please refer to abstract in article
  • Optimising orbit counting of arbitrary order by equation selection 
    Melckenbeeck, Ine; Audenaert, Pieter; Van Parys, Thomas; Van de Peer, Yves; Colle, Didier; Pickavet, Mario (BioMed Central, 2019-01-15)
    BACKGROUND : Graphlets are useful for bioinformatics network analysis. Based on the structure of Hoˇcevar and Demšar’s ORCA algorithm, we have created an orbit counting algorithm, named Jesse. This algorithm, like ORCA, ...
  • ORCAE-AOCC : a centralized portal for the annotation of African orphan crop genomes 
    Yssel, A.E.J. (Anna); Kao, Shu-Min; Van de Peer, Yves; Sterck, Lieven (MDPI, 2019-11-20)
    ORCAE (Online Resource for Community Annotation of Eukaryotes) is a public genome annotation curation resource. ORCAE-AOCC is a branch that is dedicated to the genomes published as part of the African Orphan Crops ...
  • Organic waste substrates induce important shifts in gut microbiota of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens L.) : coexistence of conserved, variable, and potential pathogenic microbes 
    Tanga, Chrysantus M.; Waweru, Jacqueline Wahura; Tola, Yosef Hamba; Onyoni, Abel Anyega; Khamis, Fathiya M.; Ekesi, Sunday; Paredes, Juan C. (Frontiers Media, 2021-02-12)
    The sustainable utilization of black soldier fly (BSF) for recycling organic waste into nutrient-rich biomass, such as high-quality protein additive, is gaining momentum, and its microbiota is thought to play important ...
  • Organize, don’t agonize : strategic success of Phytophthora species 
    Chepsergon, Jane; Motaung, Thabiso Eric; Bellieny-Rabelo, Daniel; Moleleki, Lucy Novungayo (MDPI, 2020-06-17)
    Plants are constantly challenged by various environmental stressors ranging from abiotic—sunlight, elevated temperatures, drought, and nutrient deficits, to biotic factors—microbial pathogens and insect pests. These not ...
  • Overexpression of PaNAC03, a stress induced NAC gene family transcription factor in Norway spruce leads to reduced flavonol biosynthesis and aberrant embryo development 
    Dalman, Kerstin; Wind, Julia Johanna; Nemesio-Gorriz, Miguel; Hammerbacher, Almuth; Lunden, Karl; Ezcurra, Ines; Elfstrand, Malin (BioMed Central, 2017-01-06)
    BACKGROUND : The NAC family of transcription factors is one of the largest gene families of transcription factors in plants and the conifer NAC gene family is at least as large, or possibly larger, as in Arabidopsis. These ...
  • Overlooked competing asexual and sexually typified generic names of Ascomycota with recommendations for their use or protection 
    Rossman, Amy Y.; Allen, W. Cavan; Braun, Uwe; Castlebury, Lisa A.; Chaverri, Priscila; Crous, Pedro W.; Hawksworth, David L.; Hyde, Kevin D.; Johnston, Peter; Lombard, Lorenzo; Romberg, Megan; Samson, Rob A.; Seifert, Keith A.; Stone, Jeffrey K.; Udayanga, Dhanushka; White, James F. (International Mycological Association, 2016-11-29)
    With the change to one scientific name for fungal species, numerous papers have been published with recommendations for use or protection of competing generic names in major groups of ascomycetes. Although genera in each ...
  • An overview of biofilm formation in distribution systems and its impact on the deterioration of water quality 
    Momba, M.N.B.; Kfir, R. (Rivka), 1951-; Venter, S.N. (Stephanus Nicolaas); Cloete, T.E. (Thomas Eugene), 1958- (Water Reseach Council, 2000-01)
    The impact of biofilms present in water distribution systems on the microbial quality of potable water is reported in this review. The issues covered include the composition of biofilms, factors governing their formation ...
  • The Pan-African Rabies Control Network (PARACON) : a unified approach to eliminating canine rabies in Africa 
    Scott, Terence Peter; Coetzer, Andre; De Balogh, K.; Wright, Nicolette; Nel, Louis Hendrik (Elsevier, 2015-12)
    Even though Africa has the highest per capita death rate from rabies of any continent, and the disease is almost entirely transmitted by the bites of rabid dogs, there has been no coordinated pan-African approach to ...