Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology
Coutinho, TA
BSc(Hons) MSc PhD(Natal) - Associate Professor
NRF Rating: C3
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
Panama disease of bananas
Plantation tree pathology
Forestry/ tree pathology
Sustainable insect management
A survey and study of the plant pathogens reducing yields of indigenous food crops and the transmission and control of these pathogens
Production of disease tolerant forest trees
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Pakela YP, Aveling TAS, Coutinho TA: 2002. Effect of plant age, temperature and dew period on the severity of anthracnose of cowpea caused by Colletotrichum dematium. African Plant Protection, 8 (1-2) / Aug, pp 65-68.
de Wet J, Wingfield MJ, Coutinho TA, Wingfield BD: 2002. Characterisation of the 'C' morphotype of the pine pathogen Sphaeropsis sapinea. Forest Ecology and Management, 161, pp 181-188.
Smith H, Wingfield MJ, Coutinho TA: 2002. The role of latent Sphaeropsis sapinea infections in post-hail associated die-back of Pinus patula. Forest Ecology and Management, 164, pp 177-184.
Gryzenhout M, Eisenberg BE, Coutinho TA, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2002. Pathogenicity of Cryphonectria eucalypti to Eucalyptus clones in South Africa. Forest Ecology and Management, 6035, pp 1-11.
Smith H, Coutinho TA, Wolfaardt FW, Wingfield MJ: 2002. Relative susceptibility of northern and southern provenances of Pinus greggii to infection by Sphaeropsis sapinea. Forest Ecology and Management, 166, pp 331-336.
Slippers B, Wingfield BD, Coutinho TA, Wingfield MJ: 2002. DNA sequence and AFLP data reflect geographical spread and relationships of Amylostereum areolatumand its insect vectors. Molecular Ecology Notes, (11), pp 1845-1854.
Britz H, Wingfield BD, Coutinho TA, Wingfield MJ: 2002. Sequence characterized amplified polymorphic markers for the pitch canker pathogen, Fusarium circinatum. Molecular Ecology Notes, 2, pp 577-580.
Britz H, Steenkamp ET, Coutinho TA, Wingfield BD, Marasas WFO, Wingfield MJ: 2002. Two new species of Fusarium section Liseola associated with mango malformation. Mycologia, 94 (4), pp 722-730.
van Zyl LM, Coutinho TA, Wingfield MJ, Pongpanich K, Wingfield BD: 2002. Morphological and molecular relatedness of geographically diverse isolates of Coniothyrium zuluense from South Africa and Thailand. Mycological Research, 106 (1), pp 51-59.
van Zyl M, Coutinho TA, Wingfield MJ: 2002. Morphological, cultural and pathogenic characteristics of Coniothyrium zuluense isolates from different plantation regions in South Africa. Mycopathologia, 155 (3), pp 149-153.
van Zyl LM, Coutinho TA, Wingfield MJ: 2002. Morphological, cultural and pathogenic characteristics of Conithyrium zuluenseisolates from different plantations regions in South Africa. Mycopathologia, 155, pp 1-5.
Coutinho TA, Preisig O, Mergaert J, Cnockaert MC, Riedel KH, Swings J, Wingfield MJ: 2002. Bacterial Blight and Dieback of Eucalyptus Species, Hybrids and Clones in South Africa. Plant Disease, 86 (1), pp 20-.
Wingfield MJ, Jacobs A, Coutinho TA, Ahumada R, Wingfield BD: 2002. First report on the pitch canker fungus, Fusarium circinatum on pines in Chile. Plant Pathology, (51), p. 397.
Wingfield MJ, Jacobs A, Coutinho TA, Ahumada R, Wingfield BD: 2002. First report on the pitch canker fungus, Fusarium circinatumon pines in Chile. Plant Pathology, 51, p. 397.
Wingfield MJ, Coutinho TA, Roux-Labuschagne J, Wingfield BD: 2002. The future of exotic plantation forestry in the tropics and Southern Hemisphere: lessons from pitch canker. Southern African Forestry Journal, 195, pp 79-82.
Venter M, Myburgh H, Wingfield BD, Coutinho TA, Wingfield MJ: 2002. A new species of Cryphonectria from South Africa and Australia, pathogenic to Eucalyptus. Sydowia-An International Journal of Mycology, 54 (1), pp 98-117.
Britz H, Coutinho TA, Wingfield MJ, Marasas WFO, Wingfield BD: 2002. Validation of the description of Gibberella circinata and morphological differentiation of the anamorph Fusarium circinatum. Sydowia-An International Journal of Mycology, ? (?) / ?, p. 9.
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