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| dc.contributor.author | Wingfield, Brenda D.
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| dc.contributor.author | Wingfield, Michael J.
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| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-04-30T11:58:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-04-30T11:58:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-12-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Two outbreaks of coffee wilt disease have devastated African coffee production. A PLOS Biology study suggests that horizontal gene transfer via large Starship transposons between 2 fungal species played a key role in the repeated emergence of the disease. | en_US |
| dc.description.department | Biochemistry | en_US |
| dc.description.department | Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI) | en_US |
| dc.description.department | Genetics | en_US |
| dc.description.department | Microbiology and Plant Pathology | en_US |
| dc.description.librarian | am2025 | en_US |
| dc.description.sdg | SDG-02:Zero Hunger | en_US |
| dc.description.sdg | SDG-12:Responsible consumption and production | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The South African Dept of Science and Innovation. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Wingfield, B.D. & Wingfield, M.J. (2024) Gene transfer between fungal species triggers repeated coffee wilt disease outbreaks. PLoS Biology 22(12): e3002901. https://DOI.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002901. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1544-9173 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1545-7885 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002901 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/102279 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Public Library of Science | en_US |
| dc.rights | © 2024 Wingfield, Wingfield. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Outbreaks | en_US |
| dc.subject | Disease | en_US |
| dc.subject | African coffee production | en_US |
| dc.subject | Gene transfer | en_US |
| dc.subject | Coffee wilt disease | en_US |
| dc.subject | SDG-02: Zero hunger | en_US |
| dc.subject | SDG-12: Responsible consumption and production | en_US |
| dc.title | Gene transfer between fungal species triggers repeated coffee wilt disease outbreaks | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
