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Books Taxonomy, Phylogeny, and Ecology of Bark-inhabiting and Tree-pathogenic Fungi in the Cryphonectriaceae | ||
Michael J. Wingfield is a South African botanist and pathologist.
Biography
Wingfield was born in 1954 in Natal, South Africa where he also got his bachelor of science degree in plant pathology from the University of Natal in 1976. In 1979 he got master's degree in the same field from the Stellenbosch University and was married to Brenda D. Fairbairn from the University of Pretoria. A year before he obtained his master's he was a founder of Plant Protection Research Institute an organization which specializes in forest pathology. In 1983 he got Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in both plant pathology and entomology and by 1988 relocated to the University of the Free State where two years later he became a professor at the Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry. In 1994 he became a professor at the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute and at the same place was a member of its senate as well. Currently he serves as a director of both the National Research Foundation and Centre of Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology.