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bulletFritz, R.S., Johansson, L., Åström, B., Ramstedt, M. & Häggström, H. (1996). Susceptibility of pure and hybrid willows to isolates of Melampsora epitea rust. European Journal of Plant Pathology 102: 875-881.
bulletHurtado, S. P. & Ramstedt, M. (2000) Compatible and incompatible reactions of Melampsora rust on willow leaves. Scandnavian. Journal of Forest Research 15: 405-409.
bulletHunter, T., Peacock, L., Turner, H., Brain, P. (2002) Effect of plantation design on stem-infecting form of rust in willow biomass coppice. Forest Pathology 32: 87-97.
bulletLascoux, M., Ramstedt, M., Åström, B. and (Gullberg), U. 1996. Components of resistance to leaf rust (Melampsora larici- epitea Kleb/ Melampsora ribesii-viminalis Kleb.) in Salix viminalis L. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 93: 1310-1318.
bulletLascoux, M., Thorsén, J. & Gullberg, U. (1996). Population structure of a riparian willow species, Salix viminalis L. Genetical Research 68: 45-54.
bulletMcCracken, A. R. & Dawson, W. M. (2003). Rust disease (Melampsora epitea) of willow (Salix spp.) grown as short rotation coppice (SRC) in inter- and intra-species mixtures. Annals of Applied Biology 143: 381-393.
bulletMcCracken, A. R., Dawson, W. M. & Bowden, G. (2001). Yield responses of willow (Salix) grown in mixtures in short rotation coppice (SRC). Biomass and Bioenergy 21: 311-319.
bulletMcCracken, A. R. & Dawson, W. M. (1998). Short rotation coppice willow in Northern Ireland since 1973:development and use of mixtures in the control of foliar rust (Melampsora spp.) European Journal of Forest Pathology 28: 241 -250.
bulletMcCracken, A. R. & Dawson, W. M. (1997). Growing short rotation coppice willow (Salix) in clonal mixtures as a methods of reducing the impact of rust disease caused by Melampsora epitea var. epitea. European Journal of Forest Pathology 27: 319 - 328.
bulletMcCracken, A. R. & Dawson, W. M. (1996). Interaction of willow (Salix) clones grown in polyclonal stands in short rotation coppice. Biomass and Bioenergy 10: 307 -311.
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Peacock, L., Hunter, T., Turner, H., Brain, P (2001). Does host genotype diversity affect the distribution of insect and disease damage in willow cropping systems? Journal of Applied  Ecology 38: 1070-1081.

bulletPei, M. H., Hunter, T., Ruiz, C., Bayon, C., Harris, J (2003).  Quantitative inoculation of willow rust Melampsora larici-epitea with the mycoparasite Sphaerellopsis filum.  Mycological research 107: 57-63
bulletPei, M. H.,  Ruiz, C.,  Hunter, T.,  Bayon, C. (2003) Rust resistance in Salix induced by inoculations with avirulent and virulent isolates of Melampsora larici-epitea. Forest Pathology 33:383-394
bulletPei, M. H., Ruiz, C., Harris, J., Hunter, T. (2003) Quantitative inoculations of poplars with Melampsora larici-populina.  European Journal of Plant Pathology 109: 269-276
bulletPei, M. H., Bayon, C., Ruiz, C., Yuan, Z. W., Hunter, T. (2002) Genetic variation in Melampsora larici-epitea on biomass willows assessed using AFLP. European Journal of Plant Pathology 108: 229-236
bulletPei,  M. H., Ruiz, C., Hunter, T., Arnold, G. M., Bayon,  C. (2002) Quantitative relationships between inoculum of Melampsora larici-epitea and corresponding disease on Salix.  Plant Pathology 51: 443-454
bulletPei, M.H. & Ruiz, C. (2000). AFLP evidence of the distinctive patterns of life-cycle in two forms of Melampsora rust on Salix viminalis Mycological Research 104: 937-942.
bulletPei, M. H., Yuan, Z. W., Hunter, T., et al. (2000). Heterogeneous nature of a ‘new’ pathotype of Melampsora rust on Salix revealed by AFLP. European Journal of Plant Pathology 106: 771-779.
bulletPei, M. H., Hunter, T. & Royle, D. J. (1999) Host-pathogen relationship between Salix and Melampsora sheds light on the parentage of some biomass willows. New Phytologist 141: 155-160.
bulletPei, M.H., Hunter, T. & Royle, D.J. (1999). Hybridisation in larch-alternating Melampsora epitea (M. larici-epitea) Mycological Research 103: 1440-1446.
bulletPei, M. H., Hunter, T. & Ruiz, C (1999). Occurrence of Melampsora rusts in biomass willow plantations for renewable energy in the United Kingdom. Biomass and Bioenergy 17: 153-163.
bulletPei, M.H., Whelan, M.J., Halford, N.G. & Royle, D.J. (1997). Distinction between stem- and leaf-infecting forms of Melampsora on Salix using RAPD markers. Mycological Research 101: 7-10
bulletPei, M.H., Royle, D.J. & Hunter, T. (1996). Pathogenic specialisation in Melampsora epitea var. epitea on Salix. Plant Pathology 45: 679-690.
bulletRönnberg-Wästljung, A. C. and Gullberg, U. (1999). Genetics of breeding characters with possible effects on biomass production in Salix viminalis (L.).Theoretical and Applied Genetics 98 (3-4): 531-540.
bulletSamils, B., Stepien, V., Lagercrantz, U., Lascoux, M. & Gullberg, U. (2001). Genetic diversity in relation to sexual and asexual reproduction in populations of Melampsora larici-epitea. European Journal of Plant Pathology 107: 871-881.
bulletYuan, Z.W., Pei, M.H., Hunter,T., Ruiz, C. & Royle, D.J. (1999). Pathogenicity to willow rust, Melampsora epitea, of the mycoparasite Sphaerellopsis filum from different sources. Mycological Research 103: 509-512.