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2022

Jo I, Bellingham PJ, McCarthy JK, Easdale TA, Padamsee M, Wiser, SK, & Richardson SJ (2022). Ecological importance of the Myrtaceae in New Zealand’s natural forests. Journal of Vegetation Science, 33(1), e13106. Available here.

2021

Beresford R, Campbell R (2021). Myrtle rust weather-risk update and commentary to 30 April 2021. Report available here.

Blanchon DJ, Ranatunga D, Marshall AJ, de Lange PJ (2021). Ecological communities of tree species threatened by myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii (G. Winter) Beenken): The lichenised mycobiota of pōhutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa Sol. Ex Gaertn., Myrtaceae). Perspectives in Biosecurity, vol. 5. Available here.

Schmid LMH, Large MF, Galbraith M, de Lange, PJ (2021). Observation of western honeybee (Apis melifera) foraging urediniospores from myrtle-rust infected maire tawake (Syzygium maire), Ōwairaka/Mt Albert, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, New Zealand. Perspectives in Biosecurity, vol. 6. Available here.

Soewarto J, Somchit C, Du Plessis E, Barnes I, Granados GM, Wingfield MJ, Shuey L, Bartlett M, Fraser S, Scott P & Miller E (2021). Susceptibility of native New Zealand Myrtaceae to the South African strain of Austropuccinia psidii: A biosecurity threat. Plant Pathology, 70(3): 667-675. Available here .

2020

Beresford RM, Shuey LS, Pegg GS (2020). Symptom development and latent period of Austropuccinia psidii (myrtle rust) in relation to host species, temperature and ontogenic resistance. Plant Pathology 69: 484–494. Available here .

Beresford RM, Sutherland R (2020). Weather associated with myrtle rust on the North Island east coast. Report available here.

McCarthy, JK et al (2020). Using spatial models to identify refugia and guide restoration in response to an invasive pathogen. Journal of Applied Ecology, 58:1: 192-201. Available here .

McTaggart AR, du Plessis E, Roux J et al., (2020). Sexual reproduction in populations of Austropuccinia psidii. European Journal of Plant Pathology 156: 537–54. Available here .