Rosemary E. Bradshaw is a New Zealand

mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungus, fungi, including their genetics, genetic and biochemistry, biochemical properties, their Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and ethnomycology, their use to humans, including as a so ...

, as of 2019 full professor of genetics at the

Massey University Massey University ( mi, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa) is a university based in Palmerston North, New Zealand, with significant campuses in Albany and Wellington. Massey University has approximately 30,883 students, 13,796 of whom are extramural or ...

Academic career

After a 1983

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titled '' 'Hybridization of ''

Aspergillus ' () is a genus consisting of several hundred mold species found in various climates worldwide. ''Aspergillus'' was first catalogued in 1729 by the Italian priest and biologist Pier Antonio Micheli. Viewing the fungi under a microscope, Miche ...

'' species' '' at the

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public university, public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs t ...

, Bradshaw moved to the

, rising to full professor in 2016. Bradshaw's best-known work involved the identification of the

oomycete Oomycota forms a distinct phylogenetic lineage of fungus-like eukaryotic microorganisms, called oomycetes (). They are filamentous and heterotrophic, and can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Sexual reproduction of an oospore is the resul ...

Phytophthora ''Phytophthora'' (from Greek language, Greek (''phytón''), "plant" and (), "destruction"; "the plant-destroyer") is a genus of plant-damaging oomycetes (water molds), whose member species are capable of causing enormous economic losses on cro ...

agathadicida'' as the cause of

Kauri dieback Kauri dieback is a forest dieback disease of the native kauri trees (''Agathis australis'') of New Zealand that is suspected to be caused by the oomycete ''Phytophthora agathidicida.'' Symptoms can include root rot and associated rot in a col ...

Selected works

* Ohm, Robin A., Nicolas Feau, Bernard Henrissat, Conrad L. Schoch, Benjamin A. Horwitz, Kerrie W. Barry, Bradford J. Condon et al. "Diverse lifestyles and strategies of plant pathogenesis encoded in the genomes of eighteen Dothideomycetes fungi." PLoS Pathogens 8, no. 12 (2012): e1003037. * De Wit, Pierre JGM, Ate Van Der Burgt, Bilal Ökmen, Ioannis Stergiopoulos, Kamel A. Abd-Elsalam, Andrea L. Aerts, Ali H. Bahkali et al. "The genomes of the fungal plant pathogens Cladosporium fulvum and Dothistroma septosporum reveal adaptation to different hosts and lifestyles but also signatures of common ancestry." PLoS genetics 8, no. 11 (2012): e1003088. * Groenewald, Marizeth, Irene Barnes, Rosie E. Bradshaw, Anna V. Brown, Angie Dale, Johannes Z. Groenewald, Kathy J. Lewis, Brenda D. Wingfield, Michael J. Wingfield, and Pedro W. Crous. "Characterization and distribution of mating type genes in the Dothistroma needle blight pathogens." Phytopathology 97, no. 7 (2007): 825–834. * Bradshaw, Rosie E., Deepak Bhatnagar, Rebecca J. Ganley, Carmel J. Gillman, Brendon J. Monahan, and Janet M. Seconi. "Dothistroma pini, a forest pathogen, contains homologs of aflatoxin biosynthetic pathway genes." Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68, no. 6 (2002): 2885–2892.

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