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Rosemary E. Bradshaw is a
New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...
mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their taxonomy, genetics, biochemical properties, and use by humans. Fungi can be a source of tinder, food, traditional medicine, as well as entheogens, poison, and ...
, as of 2019 full professor of genetics at the
Massey University Massey University () is a Public university, public research university in New Zealand that provides internal and distance education. The university has campuses in Auckland, Palmerston North, and Wellington. Data from Universities New Zealand ...
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Academic career

After a 1983
PhD A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...
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 research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. Nottingham's main campus (University Park Campus, Nottingh ...
, Bradshaw moved to the
Massey University Massey University () is a Public university, public research university in New Zealand that provides internal and distance education. The university has campuses in Auckland, Palmerston North, and Wellington. Data from Universities New Zealand ...
, rising to full professor in 2016. Bradshaw's best-known work involved the identification of the
oomycete The Oomycetes (), or Oomycota, form a distinct phylogenetic lineage of fungus-like eukaryotic microorganisms within the Stramenopiles. They are filamentous and heterotrophic, and can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Sexual reproduction o ...
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Phytophthora ''Phytophthora'' (from Greek (''phytón''), "plant" and (), "destruction"; "the plant-destroyer") is a genus of plant-damaging oomycetes (water molds), whose member species cause economic losses on crops worldwide, as well as environmental dam ...
agathadicida'' as the cause of
Kauri dieback ''Agathis'', commonly known as kauri or dammara, is a genus of evergreen coniferous trees, native to Australasia and Southeast Asia. It is one of three extant genera in the family Araucariaceae, alongside ''Wollemia'' and ''Araucaria'' (being ...
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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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