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
Microbial Evolution and Diversity
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Lennox CL, Hoffmann J H, Coutinho TA, Roques A: 2009. A threat of exacerbating the spread of pitch canker precludes further consideration of a cone weevil, Pissodes validirostris, for biological control of invasive pines in South Africa.. Biological Control, 50 / Mar, pp 179-184.
Hammerbacher A, Wright LP, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ, Coutinho TA: 2009. Factors affecting pine pitch canker modeled on Michaelis-Menten kinetics. Botany-Botanique, 87, pp 36-42, Full Text
Brady CL, Venter SN, Cleenwerck I, Engelbeen K, Vancanneyt M, Swings J, Coutinho TA: 2009. Pantoea vagans sp. nov., Pantoea eucalypti sp. nov., Pantoea deleyi sp. nov. and Pantoea anthophila sp. Nov. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 59, pp 2339-2345.
Brady CL, Venter SN, Cleenwerck I, Engelbeen K, de Vos P, Wingfield MJ, Telechea N, Coutinho TA: 2009. Isolation of Enterobacter cowanii from Eucalyptus showing symptoms of bacterial blight and dieback in Uruguay. Letters in Applied Microbiology, 49, pp 461-465.
Pavlic D, Slippers B, Coutinho TA, Wingfield MJ: 2009. Multiple gene genealogies and phenotypic data reveal cryptic species of the Botryosphaeriaceae: A case study on the Neofusicoccum parvum/N. ribis complex. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 51, pp 259-268.
Coutinho TA, Venter SN: 2009. Pantoea ananatis: An unconventional plant pathogen. Molecular Plant Pathology, 10 (3), pp 325-335.
Pavlic D, Slippers B, Coutinho TA, Wingfield MJ: 2009. Molecular and phenotypic characterization of three phylogenetic species discovered within theNeofusicoccum parvum/N. ribiscomplex. Mycologia, 101 (5), pp 636-647, Full Text
Porter B, Wingfield MJ, Coutinho TA: 2009. Susceptibility of South African native conifers to the pitch canker pathogen, Fusarium circinatum. South African Journal of Botany, 75, pp 380-382, Full Text
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