Species/Subspecies:
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Fusarium verticillioides |
Categories:
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Toxic for animals; toxic for humans; spoilage organism |
Etymology:
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Genus name: spindle.
Species epithet: ? |
Alternative Species Name(s): | Fusarium moniliforme |
Significance: | F. verticillioides is an important pathogen of maize.
[Unclassified]
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Geographic distribution:
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Occurs throughout the world, but preferably in humid, tropical and subtropical areas. |
Taxonomy:
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Phylum | Class | Order | Family | Genus |
Ascomycota | Sordariomycetes | Hypocreales | Nectriaceae | Fusarium |
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Macromorphology (smell):
| Colonies can cover an entire PDA plate after one week of incubation and are white to pale salmon red. |
Micromorphology:
  | The macroconidia are slender, almost straight and 40-50 µm long. The microconidia are 7-10 µm long and are produced in chains from phialid cells, which are monophialids. I.e. the microconidia are formed only from one opening in the phialid cell. |
Reproduction: | |
Spec. Char.:
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Disease/effect:
| Hosts/substrate | Disease/effect | Clinical picture or result |
Maize, millet, rice, sorghum, etc. | Rot in different parts of the plant | | Plant eating animals, e.g.: | Mycotoxicosis | | Horse | Equine leukoencephalomalaci | Fatal necrotic lesions in the cerebrum | Pig | Porcine Pulmonary
Edema (PPE) or mystery swine disease | Diarrhea, weight loss, increased liver weight and poor performance | Humans | Mycotoxicosis | |
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Virulence Factors:
| Fumonisins (mycotoxins), which are carcinogenic |
Genome Sequence:
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ACC-No GenBank | Strain/Isolate | # of chrom | Size (Mbp) | Ref |
GCA_003316975 | BRIP14953 | 11 | 42.5 | # 82 |
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ITS regions:
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ACC-No GenBank | Strain/Isolate | Number of NT | Genes |
KU872822 | AFIC16 | 1144 | 18S rRNA, ITS 1, 5.8S rRNA, ITS 2, 28S rRNA |
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Taxonomy/phylogeny:
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Reference(s):
| No. 81 |
Updated: | 2022-11-09 |