Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Genetics
Myburg, AA
BSc(UFS) BSc(Hons)(UFS) MSc(UFS) PhD(North Carolina) - Associate Professor
NRF Rating: P
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 4945
Fax number: 012 420 3947
E-mail address: zander.myburg@up.ac.za
Research Interests:
Wood and Fibre Molecular Genetics (WFMG) Programme
Forest Molecular Genetics
Plant Biotechnology
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Legesse BW, Myburg AA, Pixley KV, Twumasi-Afriyie S, Botha AM: 2008. Relationship between hybrid performance and AFLP based genetic distance in highland maize inbred lines. Euphytica, 162 (3), pp 313-323, Full Text
Creux NM, Ranik M, Berger DK, Myburg AA: 2008. Comparative analysis of orthologous cellulose synthase promoters from Arabidopsis, Populus and Eucalyptus: evidence of conserved regulatory elements in angiosperms. New Phytologist, 179 (3), pp 722-737, Full Text
du Preez FB, Myburg AA, Venter E, Botha AM: 2008. Resistance genes in the Triticeae and the dynamics of divergence before duplication. South African Journal of Botany, 74, pp 51-64.
Myburg AA, Bradfield JR, Cowley EM, Creux NM, De Castro MH, Hatherell TL, Mphahlele MM, ONeill MM, Ranik M, Solomon OL, Victor M, Zhou H, Galloway G, Horsley T, Jones N, Stanger T, Bayley A, Edwards N, Janse B: 2008. Forest and fibre genomics: Biotechnology tools for applied tree improvement. Southern Forests: A Journal of Forest Science, In Proceedings of the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO) Working Group, 70 (2), CD format and full length paper, Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science, pp 59-68.
Payn KG, Dvorak WS, Janse BJH, Myburg AA: 2008. Microsatellite diversity and genetic structure of the commercially important tropical tree species Eucalyptus urophylla, endemic to seven islands in eastern Indonesia. Tree Genetics & Genomes, 4, pp 519-530.
Patents:
Myburg AA, Ranik M, Creux NM: 2008. Plant promoters. (PCT/IB2007/052002 PCT).
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