Species/Subspecies:
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Fusarium graminearum |
Categories:
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Plant pathogen; toxic for animals; toxic for humans; of practical use |
Etymology:
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Genus name: spindle.
Species epithet: of grass. |
Alternative Species Name(s): | Gibberella zeae, which is the name of the fungus in the teleomorphic stage. |
Significance: | This fungus is of great economic importance due to reduced crop yields and contamination of mycotoxins.
[Very important]
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Taxonomy:
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Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
Ascomycota | Sordariomycetes | Hypocreales | Nectriaceae | Fusarium |
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Macromorphology (smell):
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Micromorphology:
 | Forms banana-shaped septated macroconidia. |
Reproduction: | |
Spec. Char.:
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Disease/effect:
| Hosts/substrate | Disease/effect | Clinical picture or result |
Barley, maize, rice and wheat. | Fusarium head blight (FHB) which is a devastating disease on wheat and barley. | Infected grains become wrinkled and the remains will contain mycotoxins, which can poison livestock and humans. | Maize | Stalk and ear rot | Discolouration and rotting of stem and ear | Cattle | Deoxydivalenol toxicosis | Feed refusal, vomiting, poor growth and liver damage. | Cattle | Zearalenone toxicosis. | Reproductive defects (including abortion) | Humans | See cattle | See cattle |
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Virulence Factors:
| The mycotoxins deoxydivalenol (inhibits protein biosynthesis) and zearalenone (estrogenic mycotoxin). These mycotoxins can cause vomiting, liver damage and reproductive disorders in livestock, but are also dangerous to humans. |
Genome Sequence:
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Mitochondrial DNA sequence:
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ACC-No GenBank | Strain/Isolate | Number of BP | Ref |
NC_009493 | | 95 676 | # 61 |
Cirkulärt DNA
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18S rRNA Seq:
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ACC-No GenBank | Strain/Isolate | Number of NT |
DQ459817 | NRRL5883 | 1131 |
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ITS regions:
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Taxonomy/phylogeny:
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Comment: | As a plant pathogen, this fungus produces cell wall-degrading enzymes, which are of industial importance. |
Reference(s):
| No. 32, 34, 72 |
Updated: | 2022-06-22 |