Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Genetics
Wingfield, MJ
BSc(Hons)(Natal) MSc(Stell) PhD (Minnesota) - Professor en Director: FABI
NRF Rating: A2
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 3939
Fax number: 012 420 3960
E-mail address: mike.wingfield@fabi.up.ac.za
Research Interests:
Molecular genetics of eucalyptus and pines
Production of disease tolerant forest trees
Sustainable insect management
Forest biotechnology
Molecular systematics of micro-organisms
Production of disease tolerant forest trees
Panama disease of bananas
Plantation tree pathology
Forestry/ tree pathology
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Fandohan P, Gnonlonfin B, Hell K, Marasas WFO, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Impact of indigenous storage systems and insect infestation on the contamination of maize with fumonisins. African Journal of Biotechnology, 5 (7) / Apr, pp 546-552.
Smith AH, Pinkard EA, Hunter GC, Wingfield MJ, Mohammed CL: 2006. Anatomical variation and defence responses of juvenile Eucalyptus nitens leaves to Mycospaerella leaf disease. Australasian Plant Pathology, 35, pp 725-731.
Maphosa L, Wingfield BD, Coetzee MPA, Mwenje E, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Phylogenetic relationships among Armillaria species inferred from partial elongation factor 1-alpha DNA sequence data. Australasian Plant Pathology, 35, pp 513-520.
Adams GC, Roux J, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Cytosporaspecies (Ascomycota, Diaporthales, Valsaceae): introduced and native pathogens of trees in South Africa. Australasian Plant Pathology, 35, pp 521-548.
Jacobs K, Eckhardt LG, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Leptographium profanum sp.nov., a new species from hardwood roots in North America. Canadian Journal of Botany-Revue Canadienne De Botanique, 84, pp 759-766.
Roets F, Wingfield MJ, Dreyer L, Crous PW, Bellstedt DU: 2006. A PCR-based method to detect species of Gondwanamyces and Ophiostoma on surfaces of insects colonizing Protea flowers. Canadian Journal of Botany-Revue Canadienne De Botanique, 84 (6), pp 898-994.
Gryzenhout M, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2006. New taxonomic concepts for the important forest pathogen Cryphonectria parasitica and related fungi. Fems Microbiology Letters, 258, pp 161-172.
Fandohan P, Ahouansou R, Houssou P, Hell K, Marasas WFO, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Impact of mechanical shelling and dehulling on Fusarium infection and fumonisin contamination in maize. Food Additives and Contaminants, 23 (4) / Apr, pp 415-421.
Gezahgne A, Roux J, Hunter GC, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Mycosphaerellaspecies associated with leaf disease of< I>Eucalyptus globulus in Ethiopia. Forest Pathology, 36, pp 253-263.
Hunter GC, Crous PW, Wingfield BD, Pongpanich K, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Pseudocercospora flavomarginata sp. Nov., from Eucalyptus leaves in Thailand. Fungal Diversity, 22 / Jun, pp 71-90.
Van Wyk M, Roux J, Barnes I, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Molecular phylogeny of the Ceratocystis moniliformis complex and description of C.tribiliformis sp.nov.. Fungal Diversity, 21 / Feb, pp 181-201.
Cortinas MN, Barnes I, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Polymorphic microsatellite markers for the Eucalyptus fungal pathogen Colletogloeopsis zuluensis. Molecular Ecology Notes, 6, pp 780-783.
Hunter GC, Cortinas MN, Wingfield BD, Crous PW, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Development of polymorphic microsatellite markers for the Eucalyptus leaf pathogen Mycosphaerella nubilosa. Molecular Ecology Notes, 6, pp 900-903.
Wright LP, Wingfield BD, Crous PW, Brenneman T, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in Cylindrocladium parasiticum. Molecular Ecology Notes, 6, pp 110-112.
Gryzenhout M, Myburg H, Rodas CA, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Aurapex penicillata gen. sp. Nov. from native Miconia theaezans and Tibouchina spp. in Colombia. Mycologia, 98 (1), pp 105-115.
Gryzenhout M, Myburg H, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Cryphonectriaceae (Diaporthales), a new family including Cryphonectria, Chrysoporthe, Endothia and allied genera. Mycologia, 98 (2), pp 239-249.
Burgess TI, Barber PA, Mohali S, Pegg G, De Beer W, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Three new Lasiodiplodia spp. from the tropics, recognized based on DNA sequence comparisons and morphology. Mycologia, 98 (3), pp 423-435.
Al-Subhi A M, Al-Adawi A O, Van Wyk M, Deadman M L, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Ceratocystis omanensis, a new species from diseased mango trees in Oman. Mycological Research, 110, pp 237-245.
Cortinas MN, Burgess TI, Dell B, Xu D, Crous PW, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2006. First record of Colletogloeopsis zuluense comb. Nov., causing a stem canker of Aucalyptus in China. Mycological Research, 110, pp 229-236.
Geldenhuis MM, Roux J, Cilliers AJ, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Clonality in South African isolates and evidence for a European origin of the root pathogen Thielaviopsis basicola. Mycological Research, 110, pp 306-311.
Mohali S, Slippers B, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Two new Fusicoccum species from Acacia and Eucalyptus in Venezuela, based on morphology and DNA sequence data. Mycological Research, 110, pp 405-413.
Gryzenhout M, Rodas CA, Portales JM, Clegg P, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Novel host of the Eucalyptus canker pathogen Chrysoporthe cubensis and a new Chrysoporthe species from Colombia. Mycological Research, 110, pp 833-845.
Marasas WFO, Ploetz R, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD, Steenkamp ET: 2006. Mango malformation disease and the associated Fusarium species. Phytopathology, 96 (6), pp 667-672.
Heath RN, Gryzenhout M, Roux J, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Discovery of the Canker Pathogen Chrysoporthe austroafricana on Native Syzygium spp. in South Africa. Plant Disease, 90 (4) / Apr, pp 433-438.
Nakabonge G, Roux J, Gryzenhout M, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Distribution of Chrysoporthe Canker Pathogens on Eucalyptus and Syzygium spp. in Eastern and Southern Africa. Plant Disease, 90 (6), pp 734-740.
Mwenje E, Wingfield BD, Coetzee MPA, Nemato H, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Armillaria species on tea in Kenya identified using isozyme and DNA sequence comparisons. Plant Pathology, 55, pp 343-350.
Van Wyk M, van der Merwe NA, Roux J, Wingfield BD, Kamgan GN, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Population genetic analyses suggest that the Eucalyptus fungal pathogen Ceratocystis fimbriata has been introduced into South Africa. South African Journal of Science, 102, pp 259-263.
Roets F, de Beer ZW, Dreyer L, Zipfel R, Crous PW, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Multi-gene phylogeny for Ophiostoma spp. reveals two new species from Protea infructescences. Studies in Mycology, 55, pp 199-212.
Zipfel R, de Beer ZW, Jacobs K, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Multi-gene phylogenies define Ceratocystiopsis and Grosmannia distinct from Ophiostoma. Studies in Mycology, 55, pp 75-97.
Cortinas MN, Crous PW, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Multi-gene phylogenies and phenotypic characters distinguish two species within the Colletogloeopsis zuluensis complex associated with Eucalyptus stem cankers. Studies in Mycology, 55, pp 133-146.
Crous PW, Slippers B, Wingfield MJ, Rheeder JP, Marasas WFO, Philips AJL, Alves A, Burgess T, Barber J, Groenewald J Z: 2006. Phylogenetic lineages in the Botryosphaeriaceae. Studies in Mycology, 55, pp 235-253.
Crous PW, Rong IH, Wood A, Lee S, Glen H, Botha W, Slippers B, de Beer ZW, Wingfield MJ, Hawksworth DL: 2006. How many species of fungi are there at the tip of Africa?. Studies in Mycology, 55, pp 13-33.
Crous P W, Wingfield MJ, Mansilla JP, Alfenas AC, Groenewald JZ: 2006. Phylogenetic reassessment of Mycosphaerellaspp. And their anamorphs occurring on Eucalyptus.II. Studies in Mycology, 55, pp 99-131.
de Beer ZW, Begerow D, Bauer R, Pegg GS, Crous PW, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Phylogeny of the Quambalariaceae fam. Nov., including important Eucalyptus pathogens in South Africa and Australia. Studies in Mycology, 55, pp 289-298.
Gryzenhout M, Myburg H, Hodges CS, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Microthia, Holocryphia and Ursicollum, three new genera on Eucalyptus and Coccoloba for fungi previously known as Cryphonectria. Studies in Mycology, 55, pp 35-52.
Lee S, Crous PW, Wingfield MJ: 2006. Pestalotioid fungi from Restionaceae in Cape Floral Kingdom. Studies in Mycology, 55, pp 175-187.
Maier WFA, Khoza T, Harmse N, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2006. A disease epidemic on Zizyphus mucronata in the Kruger National Park caused by Coniodictyum chevalieri. Studies in Mycology, 55, pp 279-288.
Nakabonge G, Gryzenhout M, Roux J, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD: 2006. Celoporthe dispersa gen. et sp. Nov. from native Myrtales in South Africa. Studies in Mycology, 55, pp 255-267.
Hunter GC, Wingfield BD, Crous PW, Wingfield MJ: 2006. A multi-gene phylogeny for species of< I>Mycosphaerella occurring on Eucalyptus leaves. Studies in Mycology, 55, pp 147-161.
Zhou X, De Beer W, Wingfield MJ: 2006. DNA sequence comparison of Ophiostoma spp., including Ophiostoma aurorae sp. Nov., associated with pine bark beetles in South Africa. Studies in Mycology, 55, pp 269-277.
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