Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Plant Science
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:
van den Berg N, Berger DK, Hein I, Birch PRJ, Wingfield MJ, Viljoen A: 2007. Tolerance in banana to Fusarium wilt is associated with early up-regulation of cell wall-strengthening genes in the roots. Molecular Plant Pathology, 8 (3), pp 333-341.
Naidoo S, Murray SL, Denby KJ, Berger DK: 2007. Microarray analysis of the Arabidopsis thaliana cir1 (constitutively Induced resistance 1) mutant reveals candidate defence response genes against Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato DC3000. South African Journal of Botany, 73, pp 412-421.
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