Pirie MD, Blackhall-Miles R, Bourke G, Crowley D, Ebrahim I, Forest F, Knaack M, Koopman R, Landsdowne A, Nurk NM, Osborne J, Pearce TR, Rohrauer D, Smit MF, Wilman V (2022). Preventing species extinctions: A global conservation consortium for Erica.  Plants People Planet. 1–10.

Schimpf NG, Terblance JS, Smit MF, Matthews PGD (2017). Respiration, thermogenesis, and thermoregulation of Victoria cruziana flowers. Aquatic Botany.138:37-4. 

Smit MF, Lobdell M, Hird A, Frett J, Lyons R (2016) What is the value of the current collection of Magnolia 
macrophylla var. ashei for potential integrated conservation efforts? Magnolia: Issue 100.

Davis K, Smit MF, Kidd M, Sharrock S, Allenstein P (2015). An access and benefit-sharing awareness survey for botanic gardens: Are they prepared for the Nagoya Protocol? South African Journal of Botany. 98: 148–156. 

Lange CA, Kotte K, Smit MF, Van Deventer P, Van Rensburg L (2012). Effects of different soil ameliorants on Karee trees (Searsia lancea) growing on mine tailings dump soil—Part I: Pot trials. International Journal of Phytoremediation. 

Smit MF, Kruger GHJ, Van Heerden PDR, Pienaar JJ, Weissflog L, Strasser RJ (2009). Effect of trifluoroacetate, a persistent degradation product of fluorinated hydrocarbons, on C₃ and C₄ crop plants. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 47: 623–634.