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: A1
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 3939
Fax number: 012 420 3960
E-mail address: mike.wingfield@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:
Burgess TI, Andjic V, Wingfield MJ, St J Hardy GE: 2008. The eucalypt leaf blight pathogen Kirramyces destructans discovered in Australia. Australasian Plant Disease Notes, 2, pp 141-144.
Hurley BP, Slippers B, Croft PK, Hatting HJ, van der Linde MJ, Morris AR, Dyer C, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Factors influencing parasitism of Sirex noctilio (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) by the nematode Deladenus siricidicola (Nematoda: Neotylenchidae) in summer rainfall areas of South Africa. Biological Control, 45, pp 450-459.
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.
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
Zhou XD, Xie YJ, Chen SF, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Diseases of eucalypt plantations in China: challenges and opportunities. Fungal Diversity, 32, pp 1-7.
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.
Roets F, Roets F, de Beer ZW, Wingfield MJ, Crous PW, Dreyer LL: 2008. Dual affiliation: Roets, F: UP and Stellenbosch Ophiostoma gemellus and Sporothrix variecibatus from mites infesting Protea infructescences in South Africa. Mycologia, 100 (3), pp 496-510.
Yamaoka Y, Masuya H, Chung W-H, Goto H, To-Anun C, Tokumasu S, Zhou X, Wingfield MJ: 2008. The teleomorph of Leptographium yunnanense, discovered in crosses among isolates from Thailand, China and Japan. Mycoscience, 49, pp 233-240.
Zhou X-D, Jacobs K, Kirisits T, Chhetri D B, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Leptographium bhutanense sp. Nov., associated with the root collar weevil Hylobitelus chenkupdorjii on Pinus wallichiana in Bhutan. Persoonia, 21, pp 1-8, Full Text
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
Pegg GS, Dwyer CO, Carnegie AJ, Burgess TI, Wingfield MJ, Drenth A: 2008. Quambalaria species associated with plantation and native eucalypts in Australia. Plant Pathology, 57, pp 702-714, 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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