Michael J Wingfield
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Brasier C, Grunwald N, Bourret T, Govers F, Scanu B, Cooke D, et al.
Phytopathology
. 2025 Mar;
PMID: 40072242
is a long-established, well known and globally important genus of plant pathogens. Phylogenetic evidence has shown that the biologically distinct, obligate biotrophic downy mildews evolved from at least twice. Since,...
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Coelho M, David-Palma M, Marincowitz S, Aylward J, Pham N, Yurkov A, et al.
bioRxiv
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39990455
Sexual reproduction in basidiomycete fungi is governed by loci ( and ), which exhibit remarkable evolutionary plasticity, characterized by expansions, rearrangements, and gene losses often associated with mating system transitions....
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van Dijk A, Wilson A, Marx B, Hough B, Swalarsk-Parry B, De Vos L, et al.
Fungal Genet Biol
. 2025 Feb;
177:103970.
PMID: 39952463
Fusarium circinatum, the causal agent of pine pitch canker, is one of the most destructive pathogens of Pinus species worldwide. Infections by this pathogen result in serious mortality of seedlings...
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Coelho M, David-Palma M, Aylward J, Pham N, Visagie C, Fuchs T, et al.
PLoS Pathog
. 2025 Feb;
21(2):e1012876.
PMID: 39899605
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Aylward J, Atkins S, Roets F, Wingfield B, Wingfield M
Fungal Biol
. 2025 Jan;
129(1):101528.
PMID: 39826982
Cypress canker is an important fungal disease caused by at least seven different Seiridium species. The disease has been known on Cupressaceae trees in South Africa since the 1980's, but...
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Aylward J, Marincowtiz S, Basson R, Rippon W, Wingfield M, Roets F
Fungal Biol
. 2024 Dec;
128(8 Pt A):2218-2230.
PMID: 39643389
Over the past two decades, numerous Geosmithia fungi have been isolated from the bodies and galleries of wood-boring beetles. However, this genus of asexual Sordariomycetes remains taxonomically and ecologically understudied,...
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Wingfield B, Wingfield M
PLoS Biol
. 2024 Dec;
22(12):e3002901.
PMID: 39642107
Two outbreaks of coffee wilt disease have devastated African coffee production. A PLOS Biology study suggests that horizontal gene transfer via large Starship transposons between 2 fungal species played a...
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Fuchs T, Visagie C, Wingfield B, Wingfield M
Mycoses
. 2024 Oct;
67(10):e13806.
PMID: 39462684
Sporotrichosis is a disease that arises from a fungal infection caused by members of the Ascomycete genus Sporothrix. The disease has a unique history in South Africa, due to an...
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van Heerden A, Pham N, Wingfield B, Wingfield M, Wilken P
BMC Genomics
. 2024 Oct;
25(1):990.
PMID: 39438784
Elsinoë species are phytopathogenic fungi that cause serious scab diseases on economically important plants. The disease symptoms arise from the effects of a group of phytotoxins known as elsinochromes, produced...
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Vilanova L, Caballol M, Zhang K, Olson A, Barnes I, Wingfield M, et al.
Fungal Genet Biol
. 2024 Oct;
175:103937.
PMID: 39396739
Diplodia sapinea is the causal agent of Diplodia shoot blight, an emerging disease affecting pine forests worldwide. The range expansion of this pathogen in northern Europe has been suggested to...