Fusarium culmorum
Fungal disease, head blight of wheat / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fusarium culmorum is a fungal plant pathogen and the causal agent of seedling blight, foot rot, ear blight, stalk rot, common root rot and other diseases of cereals, grasses, and a wide variety of monocots and dicots. In coastal dunegrass (Leymus mollis), F. culmorum is a nonpathogenic symbiont conferring both salt and drought tolerance to the plant.[1]
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Fusarium culmorum | |
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(A) macroconidia; (B) browning on the stem base; (C) reddish‐pink discoloration on the basal nodes; (D,E) presence of whiteheads | |
(A,B) head blight symptoms; (C) brown/purplish discoloration below head; (D–F) orange sporodochia on spikelets | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Sordariomycetes |
Order: | Hypocreales |
Family: | Nectriaceae |
Genus: | Fusarium |
Species: | F. culmorum |
Binomial name | |
Fusarium culmorum (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc. (1892) | |
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