Brenda D. Wingfield is a South African Professor of genetics and previous Deputy Dean of the University of Pretoria.
[3] In 1995 Wingfield studied various species of Armillaria, especially A. cepistipes, A. gallica, A. mellea, and A. tabescens in Europe and North America.
[8] In April of the same year she studied introduction of L. wingfieldii fungi into North America and how it is consumed by various bark beetles such as T. piniperda, D. valens and I.
[10] Wingfield was a recipient of the Christiaan Hendrik Persoon medal for her scientific achievements from the Southern African Society for Plant Pathology.
[12] Elsabe Olivier, Prof Brenda Wingfield supports Open Access at the University of Pretoria