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:
Hurley BP, Slippers B, Wingfield MJ: 2007. A comparison of control results for the alien invasive woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, in the southern hemisphere. Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 9, pp 159-171, Full Text
Richardson DM, Rundel PW, Jackson ST, Teskey RO, Aronson J, Bytnerowicz A, Wingfield MJ, Proches S: 2007. Human Impacts in Pine Forest: Past, Present, and Future. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics, 38 / Aug, pp 275-297.
Andjic V, Barber PA, Carnegie AJ, Pegg GS, Hardy GE S, Wingfield MJ, Burgess TI: 2007. Kirramyces viscidus sp. Nov., a new eucalypt pathogen from tropical Australia closely related to the serious leaf pathogen, Kirramyces destructans. Australasian Plant Pathology, 36, pp 478-487.
Glen M, Alfenas AC, Zauza EAV, Wingfield MJ, Mohammed C: 2007. Puccinia psidii: a threat to the Australian environment and economy - a review. Australasian Plant Pathology, 36, pp 1-16.
Van Wyk M, Pegg G, Lawson S, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Ceratocystic atrox sp. nov. associated with Phoracantha acanthocera infestations on Eucalyptus grandis in Australia. Australasian Plant Pathology, 36, pp 1-8.
Romon P, Zhou X-D, Iturrondobeitia JC, Wingfield MJ, Goldarazena A: 2007. Ophiostoma species (Ascomycetes: Ophiostomatales) associated with bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytinae) colonizing Pinus radiata in northern Spain. Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 53, pp 756-767.
Roets F, Roets F, Wingfield MJ, Crous PW, Dreyer L: 2007. Discovery of Fungus-Mite Mutualism in a Unique Niche. Environmental Entomology, 36 (5), pp 1226-1237.
Adawi AO, Deadman M L, Al Rawahi AK, Al Maqbali YM, Al Jahwari AA, Al Saadi BA, Al Amri IS, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Aetiology and causal agents of mango sudden decline disease in the Sultanate of Oman. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 116, pp 247-254.
Andjic V, Hardy GE S, Cortinas MN, Wingfield MJ, Burgess TI: 2007. Multiple gene genealogies reveal important relationships between species of Phaeophleospora infecting Eucalyptus leaves. Fems Microbiology Letters, 268 / Jan, pp 22-33, Full Text
Roux J, Heath RN, Labuschagne L, Nkuekam GK, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Occurrence of the wattle wilt pathogen, Ceratocystis albifundus on native South African trees. Forest Pathology, 37, pp 292-302.
Tsopelas P, Barnes I, Wingfield MJ, Xenopoulos S: 2007. Seiridium cardinale on Juniperus species in Greece. Forest Pathology, 37, pp 338-347.
Kirisits T, Konrad H, Halmschlager E, Stauffer C, Wingfield MJ, Chhetri D B: 2007. Sirococcus shoot blight onPicea spinulosain Bhutan. Forest Pathology, 37, pp 40-50, Full Text
Mohali SR, Slippers B, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Identification of Botryosphaeriaceae from Eucalyptus, Acacia and Pinus in Venezuela. Fungal Diversity, 25, pp 103-125.
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.
Zhou X-D, de Beer ZW, Xie Y-J, Pegg GS, Wingfield MJ: 2007. DNA-based identification of Quambalaria pitereka causing severe leaf blight of Corymbia citriodora in China. Fungal Diversity, 25 / Apr, pp 245-254.
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
Andjic V, Barber PA, Carnegie AJ, Hardy GE S, Wingfield MJ, Burgess TI: 2007. Phylogenetic reassessment supports accommodation of Phaeophleospora and Colletogloeopsis from eucalyptis in Kirramyces. Mycological Research, 10, pp 1184-1198.
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
Roux J, Eisenberg B, Kanzler A, Nel A, Coetzee V, Kietzka E, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Testing of selected South African Pinus hybrids and families for tolerance to the pitch canker pathogen, Fusarium circinatum. New Forests, 33 (2) / Mar, pp 109-123.
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.
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
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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