BANDYOPADHYAY, R., FEDERICKSON, D.E., McLAREN, N.W., ODVODY, G.N. & RYLEY, M.R. (1998). Ergot - a new disease threat to sorghum in the Americas and Australia. Plant Disease 82:356-367.
BOTHA, C., McLAREN, N.W. and SWART, W.J. 2009. Evaluation of greenhouse inoculation techniques used to screen for Sclerotinia stem rot resistance in soybeans. South African Journal of Plant and Soil 26: 48-50
BOTHA, C., McLAREN, N.W. and SWART, W.J. 2011. The effect of temperature and period of high humidity on the development of Sclerotinia stem rot on soybeans in the greenhouse. South African Journal of Plant and Soil 28:211-214.
CRAVEN, M., SMITH, K., BERNER, J., MOREY, L. & McLAREN, N.W. 2017. Evaluation of fungicides for potential growth regulating properties on sorghum. Crop Protection 101:43-49.
FLETT, B.C., McLAREN, N.W. & WEHNER, F.C. (2001) Incidence of Stenocarpella maydis ear rot of corn under crop rotation systems. Plant Disease 85: 92-94.
JANSE VAN RENSBURG, B., FLETT, B.C., McLAREN, N.W. and McDONALD, A.H. 2008. Variation in the identification of Fusarium spp. In maize samples due to enumerator and growth medium. South African Journal of Plant and Soil 25: 105-110.
JANSE VAN RENSBURG, B., FLETT, B.C., McLAREN, N.W. and McDONALD, A.H. 2011. Sampling variation in the quantification of fumonisins in maize samples. South African Journal of Plant and Soil 28: 90-96.
JANSE VAN RENSBURG, B., McLAREN, N.W., Viljoen, A and FLETT, B.C. 2011. Aflatoxin and fumonisin on sorghum grain from commercial production areas of South Africa. South African Journal of Plant and Soil 28: 236-238.
JANSE VAN RENSBURG, B. McLAREN, N.W., FLETT, B.C. AND SCHOEMAN, A. 2015.Fumonisin producing Fusarium spp. and fumonisin contamination in commercial South African Maize European Journal of Plant Pathology 141: 491-504.
JANSE VAN RENSBURG, B, Mc LAREN N.W., SCHOEMAN, A. and FLETT, B.C. 2016. The effects of cultivar and prophylactic fungicide spray for leaf diseases on colonisation of maize ears by fumonisin producing Fusarium spp. and fumonisin synthesis in South AfricaCrop Protection 79: 56-63
McLAREN, N.W. (2002) Evaluation of sorghum hybrids for resistance to the root rot complex. S. Afr. J Plant Soil 19: 37-42.
McLAREN, N.W. (2003) Efficacy of fungicides in the control of ergot in hybrid seed production, caused by Claviceps africana. S. Afr. J. Plant Soil 20: 154-156.
McLAREN, N.W. (2004) Effect of soil nutrient status on severity of seedling diseases and root rot of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor). S. Afr. J. Plant Soil 21: 263-265.
McLAREN, N.W. 2008. Reaction of South African soybean cultivars to rust caused by Phakopsora pachyrhizi. South African Journal of Plant and Soil 25: 49-54.
McLAREN, N.W. and CRAVEN, M. 2008. Evaluation of soybean cultivars for resistance to sclerotinia stalk rot in South Africa. Crop Protection 27:131-135.
MPOFU L.T and McLAREN, N.W. 2014. Ergosterol concentration and variability in genotype-by-pathogen interaction for grain mold resistance in Sorghum. Planta 240:239–250.
MUEDI, H.H. FOURIE, D. and McLAREN, N.W. 2011. Characterisation of bacterial brown spot pathogen collected from dry bean production areas of South Africa. African Crop Science Journal 19: 357-367
MUEDI, H.T.H., McLAREN, N.W. and FOURIE, D. 2015. Distribution and severity of bacterial brown spot on dry beans in South Africa: an update. South African Journal of Science 111: 52-57.
MUEDI, H.T.H., McLAREN, N.W. and FOURIE, D. 2015. Reaction of selected common bean germplasm accessions to bacterial brown spot in South Africa. Crop Protection 77:87-93.
PRETORIUS, Z.A., LAN, C.X., PRINS, R., KNIGHT, V. N., McLAREN, N.W., SINGH, R.P., BENDER, C.M. and KLOPPERS, F.J. 2017. Remote sensing of wheat stripe rust infection detects known resistance loci in two mapping populations. Precision Agriculture 18:411-428.
REED,J.D., TUINSTRA, M.R. McLAREN, N.W., KOFOID, K.D. OCHANDA, N.W. & CLAFLIN, L.E. (2002) Analysis of combining ability for ergot resistance in grain sorghum. Crop Sci. 42: 1818-1823.
TAESFAENDREAS, McLAREN, N.W. and SWART, W.J. 2009. The effect of grain mould fungi on sorghum malt quality and its management during malting. South African Journal of Plant and Soil 26: 45-47.
TAESFAENDREAS, McLAREN, N.W. and SWART, W.J. 2011. Grain mold fungi and their effect on sorghum grain quality. South African Journal of Plant and Soil 28:175-183.
TAREKEGN, G., McLAREN, N.W. and SWART, W.J. 2004. Relationship between grain development stages and sorghum cultivar susceptibility to grain mould. African Plant Protection 10: 53-62.
TAREKEGN, G., McLAREN, N.W AND SWART W.J. 2006. Reaction of sorghum to grain mould in relation to its biochemical and morphological traits. Pest Management Journal of Ethiopia. 10: 25-32.
TAREKEGN, G., McLAREN, N.W. and SWART, W.J. 2006. The effect of weather on grain mould of sorghum in South Africa. Plant Pathology 55: 238-245.
TAREKEGN, G., SWART W.J. AND McLAREN, N.W. 2006. Grain mould fungi associated with sorghum from Ethiopia and South Africa and their damage to grains. Ethiopian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 18 (2): 153-163.
TAREKEGN, G., McLAREN, N.W AND SWART W.J. 2006. Relationship between ergot and grain mould development in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) South African Journal of Plant and Soil 23: 297-301.
Book Chapters
McLAREN, N.W, Saayman, J., Benade, J. and van der Walt, M. (2002) Evaluation of reduced sorghum seed germination. In Leslie, J.F. (Ed) 2002. Sorghum and Millets Pathology 2000. Iowa State Press, Ames, Iowa.
McLAREN, N.W. (2002) Genotype x environment effects on the response of sorghum to ergot and repercussions for diseases-screening. In Leslie, J.F. (Ed) 2002. Sorghum and Millets Pathology 2000. Iowa State Press, Ames, Iowa.
MTISI, E. & McLAREN, N.W. (2002) Diseases of sorghum and pearl millet in some Southern African countries. In Leslie, J.F. (Ed) 2002. Sorghum and Millets pathology 2000. Iowa State Press, Ames, Iowa.