• Agrichemicals and antibiotics in combination increase antibiotic resistance evolution 

  Kurenbach, B.; Hill, A. M.; Godsoe, William; van Hamelsveld, S.; Heinemann, J. A. (PeerJ, 2018-10-12)

  Antibiotic resistance in our pathogens is medicine's climate change: Caused by human activity, and resulting in more extreme outcomes. Resistance emerges in microbial populations when antibiotics act on phenotypic variance ...

• Severe insect pest impacts on New Zealand pasture: The plight of an ecological outlier 

  Goldson, Stephen; Barker, G. M.; Chapman, H. M.; Popay, A. J.; Stewart, Alan V; Caradus, J. R.; Barratt, B. I. P. (Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America, 2020-03)

  New Zealand’s intensive pastures, comprised almost entirely introduced Lolium L. and Trifolium L. species, are arguably the most productive grazing lands in the world. However, these areas are vulnerable to destructive ...

• Framework and guidelines for implementing the proposed IUCN Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (EICAT) 

  Hawkins, C. L.; Bacher, S.; Essl, F.; Hulme, Philip E.; Jeschke, J. M.; Kühn, I.; Kumschick, S.; Nentwig, W.; Pergl, J.; Pyšek, P.; Rabitsch, W.; Richardson, D. M.; Vilà, M.; Wilson, J. R. U.; Genovesi, P.; Blackburn, T. M. (Wiley, 2015-11)

  Recently, Blackburn et al. (2014) developed a simple, objective and transparent method for classifying alien taxa in terms of the magnitude of their detrimental environmental impacts in recipient areas. Here, we present a ...

• Novel interactions between alien pathogens and native plants increase plant–pathogen network connectance and decrease specialization 

  Bufford, Jennifer; Hulme, Philip E.; Sikes, B. A.; Cooper, J. A.; Johnston, P. R.; Duncan, Richard P. (Wiley, 2020-03-01)

  1. Alien plant pathogens are a threat to native plants and are increasingly integrating into native plant–pathogen networks, but how these novel plant–pathogen networks are structured remains unclear. Theory predicts that ...

• Implementation of genetic and untargeted metabolomics to study the role of the terpene synthase vir4 from Trichoderma virens in plant-microbe interactions 

  Padilla Arizmendi, Fabiola (Lincoln University, 2019)

  Trichoderma virens actively interacts with plants roots in natural and agricultural ecosystems. Its ability to persist in the rhizosphere and to internally colonise plants roots is driven among others by the production of ...

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