Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Botany
Berger, DK
PhD(Cape Town) - Associate Professor
NRF Rating: C2
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 4634
Fax number: 012 362 5327
E-mail address: dave.berger@up.ac.za
Research Interests:
Panama disease of bananas
Bioinformatics and computational biology
Studies of plant-pathogen interactions at the molecular level
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Fouche (Weich) J, Poussier S, Trigalet-Demery D, Berger DK, Coutinho TA: 2006. Molecular identification of some African strains of Ralstonia solanacearum from Eucalypt and potato. Journal of General Plant Pathology, 72 (6), pp 369-373.
Oelofse D, Oelofse D, Dubery IA, Meyer R, Arendse MS, Gazendam I, Berger DK: 2006. Apple polygalacturonase inhibiting protein 1 expressed in transgenic tobacco inhibits polygalacturonases from fungal pathogens of apple and the anthracnose pathogen of lupins. Phytochemistry, 67, pp 255-263.
Patents:
Oelofse DO, Berger DK: 2006. Plant Promoter. (2006/000072).
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