Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Genetics
Wingfield, BD
BSc(Natal) BSc(Med)(Hons)(Cape Town) MSc(Minnesota) PhD(Stell) - Professor
NRF Rating: B3
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 3946
Fax number: 012 420 2954
E-mail address: brenda.wingfield@fabi.up.ac.za
Research Interests:
Molecular genetics of eucalyptus and pines
Forest biotechnology
Molecular systematics of micro-organisms
Sustainable insect management
Panama disease of bananas
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Bogale M, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ, Steenkamp ET: 2007. Species-specific primers for Fusarium redolens and a PCR-RFLP technique to distinguish among three clades of Fusarium exysporum. Fems Microbiology Letters, 271, pp 27-32, Full Text
Slippers B, Wingfield BD: 2007. Botryosphaeriaceae as endophytes and latent pathogens of woody plants: diversity, ecology and impact Fungal Biology Reviews. Fungal Biology Reviews, 21, pp 90-106.
Van Wyk M, Adawi AO, Khan IA, Deadman M L, Al Jahwari AA, Wingfield BD, Ploetz R, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Ceratocystis manginecanssp. nov., causal agent of a destructive mango wilt disease in Oman and Pakistan. Fungal Diversity, 27, pp 213-230.
De Vos L, Myburg AA, Wingfield MJ, Desjardins AE, Gordon TR, Wingfield BD: 2007. Complete genetic linkage maps from an interspecific cross between Fusarium circinatum and Fusarium subglutinans. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 44, pp 701-714, Full Text
Zhou X, Burgess TI, de Beer ZW, Lieutier F, Yart A, Klepzig K, Carnegie A, Portales JM, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2007. High intercontinental migration rates and population admixture in the sapstain fungus Ophiostoma ips. Molecular Ecology, 16, pp 89-99, Full Text
Wright LP, Wingfield BD, Crous PW, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in Cylindrocladium pauciramosum. Molecular Ecology Notes, 7, pp 343-345, Full Text
Carnegie AJ, Burgess TI, Beilharz V, Wingfield BD: 2007. New species of Mycosphaerella from Myrtaceae in plantations and native forests in eastern Australia. Mycologia, 99 (3), pp 461-474.
Maier WFA, Wingfield BD, Mennicken M, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Polyphyly and two emerging lineages in the rust genera Puccinia and Uromyces. Mycological Research, 111, pp 176-185, Full Text
Groenewald M, Barnes I, Bradshaw RE, Brown AV, Dale A, Groenewald JZ, Lewis KJ, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ, Crous PW: 2007. Characterization and Distribution of Mating Type Genes in the Dothistroma Needle Blight Pathogens. Phytopathology, 97 (7), pp 825-834.
Slippers B, Smit WA, Crous PW, Coutinho TA, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Taxonomy, phylogeny and identification of Botryosphaeriaceae associated with pome and stone fruit trees in South Africa and other regions of the world. Plant Pathology, 56, pp 128-139, Full Text
Hurley B, Govender P, Coutinho TA, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Fungus gnats and other Diptera in South African forestry nurseries and their possible association with the pitch canker fungus. South African Journal of Science, 103 (1 & 2) / Jan/Feb, pp 43-46, Full Text
Jacobs A, Coutinho TA, Wingfield MJ, Ahumada R, Wingfield BD: 2007. Characterization of the pitch canker fungus, Fusarium circinatum, from Chile. South African Journal of Science, 103 (5/6) / May/Jun, pp 253-257, Full Text
Nakabonge G, Gryzenhout M, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ, Roux J: 2007. Genetic diversity of Chrysoporthe cubensis in eastern and southern Africa. South African Journal of Science, 103 (5/6) / May/Jun, pp 261-264, Full Text
Hurley BP, Slippers B, Coutinho TA, Wingfield BD, Govender P, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Molecular detection of fungi carried by Bradysia difformis (Sciaridae: Diptera) in South African forestry nurseries. Southern Hemisphere Forestry Journal, 69 (2), pp 103-109.
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