Recent publications
2014
Agenbag GM, Pretorius ZA, Boyd LA, Bender CM, MacCormack R and Prins R. 2014. High-resolution mapping and new marker development for adult plant stripe rust resistance QTL in the wheat cultivar Kariega. Molecular Breeding 34:2005-2020. DOI 10.1007/s11032-014-0158-4.
Rouse, M., Nirmala, J., Jin, Y., Anderson, J.A., Chao, S., Fetch, T.G., Pretorius, Z.A. & Hiebert, C. Characterization of Sr9h, a wheat stem rust resistance allele effective to Ug99. Theor Appl Genet 127(8): 1681-1688.
Terefe, T., Visser, B., Herselman, L., Prins, R., Negussie, T., Kolmer, J.A. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2014. Diversity in Puccinia triticina detected on wheat from 2008 to 2010 and the impact of new races on South African wheat germplasm. Eur. J. Plant Pathol. 139:95-105. DOI 10.1007/s10658-013-0368-3.
Terefe, T., Visser, B., Herselman, L., Selinga, T. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2014. First Report of Puccinia triticina (Leaf Rust) Race FBPT on Wheat in South Africa. Plant Disease 98:1001. doi 10.1094/PDIS-12-13-1195-PDN.
2015
Castelyn, H.D., Appelgryn, J.J., Mafa, M.S., Pretorius, Z.A. & Visser, B. 2015. Volatiles emitted by leaf rust infected wheat induce a defence response in exposed uninfected seedlings. Australasian Plant Pathology 44:245-254.
Pretorius, Z.A., B. Visser, T. Terefe, L. Herselman, R. Prins, T. Soko, J. Siwale, B. Mutari, T.I. Selinga, D.P. Hodson. 2015. Races of Puccinia triticina detected on wheat in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi and regional germplasm responses. Australasian Plant Pathology 44:217-224.
Pretorius, Z.A., Bender, C.M. & Visser, B. 2015. The rusts of wild rye in South Africa. SA J Bot 96:94-98.
Pretorius, Z.A., R. Prins, P. K. Malaker, N.C.D. Barma, M.A. Hakim, D. Thapa, U. Bansal, G. L. Cisar, & R. F. Park. 2015. Assessing the vulnerability of wheat germplasm from Bangladesh and Nepal to African stem rust. Phytoparasitica 43:637-645.
Singh, R.P., David P. Hodson, Yue Jin, Evans S. Lagudah, Michael A. Ayliffe, Sridhar Bhavani, Matthew N. Rouse, Zacharias A. Pretorius, Les J. Szabo, Julio Huerta-Espino, Bhoja R. Basnet, Caixia Lan, Mogens S. Hovmøller. 2015. Emergence and Spread of New Races of Wheat Stem Rust Fungus: Continued Threat to Food Security and Prospects of Genetic Control. Phytopathology 105:872-884.
2016
Babiker, E.M., T. C. Gordon, J. M. Bonman, S. Chao, M. N. Rouse, G. Brown-Guedira, S. Williamson & Z. A. Pretorius. 2016. Rapid identification of resistance loci effective against Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici race TTKSK in 33 spring wheat landraces. Plant Disease 100:331-336.
Babiker, E.M., T. C. Gordon, S. Chao, M. N. Rouse, Jayaveeramuthu Nirmala, R. Wanyera, M. Newcomb, G. Brown-Guedira, Z. A. Pretorius & J. M. Bonman. 2016. Genetic mapping of resistance to the Ug99 race group of Puccinia graminis f. sp tritici in a spring wheat landrace CItr 4311. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 129(11) 2161-2170. doi 10.1007/s00122-016-2764-5.
Bender, C.M., Prins, R, & Pretorius, Z.A. 2016. Development of a greenhouse screening method for adult plant resistance in wheat to stem rust. Plant Disease 100: 1627-1633.
Hongwei Li, Qi Zheng, Zacharias A. Pretorius, Bin Li, Dingzhong Tang, and Zhensheng Li. 2016. Establishment and characterization of new wheat-Thinopyrum ponticum addition and translocation lines with resistance to Ug99 races. Journal of Genetics and Genomics 43: 573-575. doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2016.07.04.
Pretorius, Z.A., C.X. Lan, R. Prins, V. Knight, N.W. McLaren, R.P. Singh C.M. Bender, & F.J. Kloppers. 2016. Application of remote sensing to identify adult plant resistance loci to stripe rust in two bread wheat mapping populations. Precision Agriculture DOI: 10.1007/s11119-016-9461-x (accepted 16 July 2016).
Prins, R., S. Dreisigacker, Z. Pretorius, H. van Schalkwyk, E. Wessels, C. Smit, C. Bender, D. Singh, L. A. Boyd. 2016. Stem rust resistance in a geographically diverse collection of spring wheat lines collected from across Africa. Frontiers in Plant Science 7: 973.
Rahmatov, M., Matthew Rouse, Staffan Andersson, Brian Steffenson Ruth Wanyera, Zacharias A. Pretorius, Andreas Houben, Nazari Kumarse, Sridhar Bhavani, and Eva Johansson. 2016. Sources of Stem Rust Resistance in Wheat-alien Introgression Lines. Plant Disease 100:1101-1109 http://dx.doi.org/10-94/PDIS12-15-1448RE.
Terefe, T., Visser, B. & Pretorius, Z.A. 2016. Phenotypic and genotypic variation in Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici detected on wheat and triticale in South Africa from 2009-2013. Crop Protection 86:9-16. DOI 10.1016/j.cropro.2016.04.006.
Visser, B., Liezel Herselman and Zacharias A. Pretorius. Microsatellite characterization of South African Puccinia striiformis races. SAJ Plant&Soil 33(3): 161-166.
Specialisation in rust diseases of field crops with an emphasis on cereal rusts. Expertise in pathogen variability, host plant resistance and pathogen-host interactions.