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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology

Coutinho, TA

BSc(Hons) MSc PhD(Natal) - Professor

NRF Rating: C1

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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

Plantation tree pathology

Forestry/ tree pathology

Sustainable insect management

Molecular systematics of micro-organisms

Forest biotechnology

Research Output:

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Coutinho TA, Brady CL, van der Vaart M, Venter SN, Telechea N, Rolfo M, Perez C, Wingfield MJ: 2011. A new shoot and stem disease ofEucalyptus species caused byErwinia psidii. Australasian Plant Pathology, 40, pp 55-60, Full Text

De Maayer P, Venter SN, Kamber Tim, Duffy B, Coutinho TA, Smits THM: 2011. Comparative genomics of the type VI secretion systems of Pantoea and Erwinia species reveals the presence of putative effector islands that may be translocated by the VgrG and Hcp proteins. BMC Genomics, 12, p. 576, Full Text

Brady CL, Goszczynska T, Venter SN, Cleenwerck I, de Vos P, Gitaitis RD, Coutinho TA: 2011. Pantoea allii sp. nov., isolated from onion plants and seed. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 61, pp 932-937, Full Text

Mitchell R G, Steenkamp ET, Coutinho TA, Wingfield MJ: 2011. The pitch canker fungus, Fusarium circinatum : implications for South African forestry. Southern Forests: A Journal of Forest Science (Southern Hemisphere Forestry Journal), 73 (1), pp 1-13, Full Text

 

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