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Agrobacterium or Rhizobium, which name to use? 27 Apr 2013 | 09:59 am
Introduction Agrobacterium is a well-known genus in bacteriology and molecular biology, but research has shown that it cannot easily be separated from the Rhizobium genus, thus all Agrobacterium spec...
Colletotrichum DNA barcode database 29 Oct 2012 | 01:52 pm
The recent revisions of Colletotrichum taxonomy have been fantastic for stabilising and modernising our concepts of this important plant pathogen. However, many of the new species are very difficult t...
The International Subcommission on Colletotrichum Taxonomy 2 Sep 2012 | 08:16 am
Recently Lei Cai and I set up the International Subcommission on Colletotrichum Taxonomy (ISCT) to deal with recent changes in the ICN nomenclatural code. Our main objective is to produce lists of acc...
The Colletotrichum gloeosporioides species complex 2 Sep 2012 | 07:41 am
The major publication of my postdoc is now out — all 65 pages of it — in Studies in Mycology. In this publication we review the taxonomy of the fungus commonly known as Colletotrichum gloeosporioides,...
Curator of the ICMP 15 Aug 2012 | 06:15 pm
From July this year I am now the curator of the International Collection of Microorganisms from Plants (ICMP) held by Landcare Research in Auckland, New Zealand. This is recognised as a “nationally si...
ITS selected as the official fungal barcode 8 Apr 2012 | 05:41 pm
T he ITS gene region has been selected as the official gene for fungal barcoding in a recent publication of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Myself and two colleagues from Landcare...
Website under re-construction 8 Apr 2012 | 01:56 pm
I am moving this website content over to a Drupal CMS format, there will be some broken links in the interim. The new CMS will allow me to do site updates much faster and easier. Update 9 April 2012: ...
