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: B2
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 3946
Fax number: 012 420 2954
E-mail address: brenda.wingfield@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:
Nakabonge G, Burgess TI, Gryzenhout M, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ, Roux J: 2008. Population structure of the fungal pathogen Holocryphia eucalypti in Australia and South Africa. Australasian Plant Pathology, 37, pp 154-161.
Wingfield MJ, Hammerbacher A, Ganley RJ, Steenkamp ET, Gordon TR, Wingfield BD, Coutinho TA: 2008. Pitch canker caused by Fusarium circinatum - a growing threat to pine plantations and forest worldwide. Australasian Plant Pathology, 37, pp 319-334.
Van der Nest MA, Slippers B, Stenlid J, Wilken PM, Vasaitis R, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD: 2008. Characterization of the systems governing sexual and self-recognition in the white rot homobasidiomycete Amylostereum areolatum. Current Genetics, 53, pp 323-336.
Kvas M, Steenkamp ET, Al Adawi AO, Deadman ML, Al Jahwari AA, Marasas WFO, Wingfield BD, Ploetz RC, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Fusarium mangiferae associated with mango malformation in the Sultanate of Oman. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 121, pp 195-199, Full Text
Barnes I, Kirisits T, Akulov A, Chhetri D B, Wingfield BD, Bulgakov TS, Wingfield MJ: 2008. New host and country records of the Dothistroma needle blight pathogens from Europe and Asia. Forest Pathology, 38, pp 178-195, Full Text
Lombard L, Bogale M, Montenegro F, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2008. A new bark canker disease of the tropical hardwood tree Cebrelinga cateniformis in Ecuador. Fungal Diversity, 31, pp 73-81.
Rodas CA, Roux J, Van Wyk M, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Ceratocystis neglecta sp. nov., infecting Eucalyptus trees in Colombia. Fungal Diversity, 28, pp 73-84.
Cortinas MN, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Microsatellite markers for the Eucalyptus stem canker fungal pathogen Kirramyces gauchensis. Molecular Ecology Resources, 8, pp 590-592, Full Text
Barnes I, Cortinas MN, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD: 2008. Microsatellite markers for the red band needle blight pathogen, Dothistroma septosporum. Molecular Ecology Resources, 8, pp 1026-1029, Full Text
de Wet J, Slippers B, Preisig O, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Phylogeny of the Botryosphaeriaceae reveals patterns of host association. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 46 (1), pp 116-126.
de Wet J, Preisig O, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Patterns of Multiple Virus Infections in the Conifer Pathogenic Fungi, Diplodia pinea and Diplodia scrobiculata. Phytopathology, 156, pp 725-731, Full Text
Duran A, Gryzenhout M, Slippers B, Ahumada R, Rotella A, Flores F, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Phytophthora pinifolia sp. nov. associated with a serious needle disease of Pinus radiata in Chile. Plant Pathology, 57, pp 715-727, Full Text
Hunter GC, van der Merwe NA, Burgess TI, Carnegie AJ, Wingfield BD, Crous PW, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Global movement and population biology of Mycosphaerella nubilosa infecting leaves of cold-tolerant Eucalyptus globulus and E. nitens. Plant Pathology, 57, pp 235-242, Full Text
Wingfield MJ, Slippers B, Hurley BP, Coutinho TA, Wingfield BD, Roux J: 2008. Eucalypt pests and diseases: Growing threats to plantation productivity. Southern Forests: A Journal of Forest Science, 70 (2), pp 139-144.
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