Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology
Coutinho, TA
BSc(Hons) MSc PhD(Natal) - Professor
NRF Rating: C2
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 3934
Fax number: 012 420 3960
E-mail address: teresa.coutinho@FABI.up.ac.za
Research Interests:
Production of disease tolerant forest trees
Production of disease tolerant forest trees
Panama disease of bananas
Plantation tree pathology
Forestry/ tree pathology
Sustainable insect management
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Coutinho TA, Steenkamp ET, Mongwaketsi K, Wilmot M, Wingfield MJ: 2007. First outbreak of pitch canker in a South African pine plantation. Australasian Plant Pathology, 36 (3), pp 256-261.
Maseko B, Burgess TI, Coutinho TA, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Two new Phytophthora species from South African Eucalyptus plantations. Mycological Research, 111, pp 1321-1338, Full Text
Gosznzynska T, Botha WJ, Venter SN, Coutinho TA: 2007. Isolation and Idenfitication of the Causal Agent of Brown Stalk Rot, A New Disease of Maize in South Africa. Plant Disease, 91 (6) / Jun, pp 711-718.
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
Pavlic D, Slippers B, Coutinho TA, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Botryosphaeriaceae occuring on native Syzygium cordatum in South Africa and their potential threat to Eucalyptus. Plant Pathology, 56, pp 624-636, 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
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.
Brady C, Venter SN, Cleenwerck I, Vancanneyt M, Swings J, Coutinho TA: 2007. A FAFLP system for the improved identification of plant-pathogenic and plant-associated species of the genus Pantoea. Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 30, pp 413-417, Full Text
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