Non-native trees have become dominant components of many landscapes, including urban
ecosystems, commercial forestry plantations, fruit orchards and as invasives in natural …

Plantations of eucalypts (species of Eucalyptus and Corymbia), particularly in the tropics and
Southern Hemisphere, have expanded dramatically during the course of the last 100 years …

Natural and introduced pathogens are present in exotic plantations. Exotic pathogens
commonly enter new areas via germ plasm. Root pathogens, which tend to require soil and …

Several recent studies have reviewed the extent of fungal biodiversity, and have used these
data as basis for revised estimates of species numbers based on known numbers of plants …

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Chapter 14 Biotic Interactions as Mediators of Biological Invasions: Insights from South Africa …

Cryphonectria cubensis is an important canker pathogen of tree species residing in the
Myrtaceae and Melastomataceae. Recent phylogenetic studies based on multiple gene …

Species of Cryphonectria include some of the world's most important and devastating tree
pathogens. Largely through the application of DNA sequence phylogenies, the taxonomy of …

The genomes of Ceratocystis eucalypticola, Chrysoporthe cubensis, Chrysoporthe
deuterocubensis, Davidsoniella virescens, Fusarium temperatum, Graphilbum fragrans …

Eucalyptus spp. are being propagated extensively as exotics in plantations in South Africa,
and many other parts of the world. In South Africa, a number of diseases result in serious …

In this study, the complete mitochondrial (mt) genomes of Chrysoporthe austroafricana
(190,834 bp), C. cubensis (89,084 bp) and C. deuterocubensis (124,412 bp) were …