Faculty of Natural and Agricultural 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
Plantation tree pathology
Forestry/ tree pathology
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Six DL, Wingfield MJ: 2011. The Role of Phytopathogenicity in Bark Beetle-Fungus Symbioses: A Challenge to the Classic Paradigm. Annual Review of Entomology, 56, pp 255-272, Full Text
de Wet J, Bihon Legesse W, Preisig O, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2011. Characterization of a novel dsRNA element in the pine endophytic fungus Diplodia scrobiculata. Archives of Virology, 156, pp 1199-1208, Full Text
Bihon Legesse W, Burgess T, Slippers B, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD: 2011. Distribution of Diplodia pinea and its genotypic diversity within asymptomatic Pinus patula trees. Australasian Plant Pathology, 40, pp 540-548, Full Text
Cortinas MN, Barnes I, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2011. Unexpected genetic diversity revealed in the Eucalyptus canker pathogen Teratosphaeria gauchensis. Australasian Plant Pathology, 40, pp 497-503, Full Text
Pegg GS, Carnegie AJ, Wingfield MJ, Drenth A: 2011. Variable resistance to Quambalaria pitereka in spotted gum reveal opportunities for disease screening. Australasian Plant Pathology, 40, pp 76-86, Full Text
Zhou XD, Wingfield MJ: 2011. Eucalypt diseases and their management in China. Australasian Plant Pathology, 40, pp 339-345.
Pegg GS, Shuey LS, Carnegie AJ, Wingfield MJ, Drenth A: 2011. Potential gains through slecting for resistance in spotted gum to Quambalaria pitereka. Australasian Plant Pathology, 40, pp 197-206, Full Text
Mlonyeni XOM, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ, Ahumada R, Klasmer P, Leal I, de Groot P, Slippers B: 2011. Extreme homozygosity in Southern Hemisphere populations of Deladenus siricidicola , a biological control agent of Sirex noctilio. Biological Control, 59, pp 348-353, Full Text
Wingfield MJ, Roux J, Wingfield BD: 2011. Insect pests and pathogens of Australian acacias grown as non-natives - an experiment in biogeography with far-reaching consequences. Diversity and Distributions, 17, pp 968-977, Full Text
Lu M, Wingfield MJ, Gillette N, Sun J-H: 2011. Do novel genotypes drive the success of an invasive bark beetle-fungus complex? Implications for potential reinvasion. Ecology, 92 (11), pp 2013-2019, Full Text
Moleleki N, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD, Preisig O: 2011. Effect of Diaporthe RNA virus 1 (DRV1) on growth and pathogenicity of different Diaporthe species. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 131, pp 261-268, Full Text
Andjic V, Dell B, Barber P, Hardy G, Wingfield MJ, Burgess TI: 2011. Plants for planting; indirect evidence for the movement of a serious forest pathogen, Teratosphaeria destructans , in Asia. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 131, pp 49-58, Full Text
Heath RN, Roux J, Slippers B, Drenth A, Pennycook SR, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2011. Occurrence and pathogenicity of Neofusicoccum parvum and N. mangiferae on ornamental Tibouchina species. Forest Pathology, 41, pp 48-51, Full Text
Bihon Legesse W, Slippers B, Burgess T, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD: 2011. Diplodia scrobiculata found in the southern hemisphere. Forest Pathology, 41, pp 175-181, Full Text
Barnes I, Kirisits T, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD: 2011. Needle blight of pine caused by two species of Dothistroma in Hungary. Forest Pathology, 41, pp 361-369, Full Text
Bihon Legesse W, Slippers B, Burgess T, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD: 2011. Sources of Diplodia pinea endophytic infections in Pinus patula and P. radiata seedlings in South Africa. Forest Pathology, 41, pp 370-375, Full Text
De Vos L, Van der Nest MA, Van der Merwe NA, Myburg AA, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD: 2011. Genetic analysis of growth, morphology and pathogenicity in the F 1 progeny of an interspecific cross between Fusarium circinatum and Fusarium subglutinans. Fungal Biology, 115, pp 902-908, Full Text
Roets F, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD, Dreyer LL: 2011. Mites are the most common vectors of the fungus Gondwanamyces proteae in Protea infrictescences. Fungal Biology, 115, pp 343-350, Full Text
Hunter GC, Crous PW, Carnegie AJ, Burgess TI, Wingfield MJ: 2011. Mycosphaerella and Teratosphaeria diseases of Eucalyptus ; easily confused and with serious consequences. Fungal Diversity, 50, pp 145-166, Full Text
Van Wyk M, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2011. Four new Ceratocystis spp. Associated with wounds on Eucalyptus, Schizolobium and Terminalia trees in Ecuador. Fungal Diversity, 46, pp 111-131, Full Text
Perez CA, Wingfield MJ, Altier NA, Simeto S, Blanchette RA: 2011. Puccinia psidii infecting cultivated Eucalyptusand native myrtaceae in Uruguay. Mycological Progress, 10, pp 273-282, Full Text
Grobbelaar JW, De Beer ZW, Bloomer P, Wingfield MJ, Zhou XD, Wingfield BD: 2011. Discovery of Ophiostoma tsotsi on Eucalyptus wood chips in China. Mycoscience, 52, pp 111-118, Full Text
Hawksworth DL, Crous PW, Redhead SA, Reynolds DR, Samson RA, Seifert KA, Taylor JW, Wingfield MJ, Abaci O, Aime C, Asan A, Slippers B, De Beer ZW, et al : 2011. 2. The Amsterdam Declaration on fungal nomenclature. Mycotaxon, 116, pp 491-500, Full Text
Van Wyk M, Wingfield BD, Al-Adawi AO, Rossetto CJ, Fumiko Ito M, Wingfield MJ: 2011. Two new Ceratocystis species associated with mango disease in Brazil. Mycotaxon, 117, pp 381-404, Full Text
Pegg GS, Shuey LS, Carnegie AJ, Wingfield MJ, Drenth A: 2011. Variability in aggressiveness of Quambalaria pitereka isolates. Plant Pathology, 60, pp 1107-1117.
Pegg GS, Nahrung H, Carnegie AJ, Wingfield MJ, Drenth A: 2011. Spread and development of quambalaria shoot blight in spotted gum plantations. Plant Pathology, 60, pp 1096-1106, Full Text
Coetzee MPA, Bloomer P, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD: 2011. Paleogene Radiation of a Plant Pathogenic Mushroom. Plos One, 6 (12), pp e28545 (1-8), Full Text
Coetzee MPA, Wingfield BD, Golani GD, Tjahjono B, Gafur A, Wingfield MJ: 2011. A single dominant Ganoderma species is responsible for root rot of Acacia mangium and Eucalyptus in Sumatra. Southern Forests: A Journal of Forest Science (Southern Hemisphere Forestry Journal), 73 (3&4), pp 175-180, Full Text
Six DL, Poulsen M, Hansen AK, Wingfield MJ, Roux J, Eggleton P, Slippers B, Paine TD: 2011. Anthropogenic effects on interaction outcomes: examples from insect-microbial symbioses in forest and savanna ecosystems. Symbiosis, 53, pp 101-121, Full Text
Chapters in books:
Wingfield MJ, Slippers B, Roux J, Wingfield BD: 2011. Fifty years of tree pest and pathogen invasions, increasingly threatening world forests. In Fifty years of Invasion Ecology. The Legacy of Charles Elton, (8) / 1, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, pp 89-99.
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