Overview
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Scientific name
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Fusarium acuminatum |
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Genus
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Fusarium |
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EPPO code
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GIBBAC |
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Common name
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stalk rot of maize |
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Synonyms
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Gibberella acuminata |
Description
Summary of description from Leslie, Summerell and Bullock- The Fusarium Laboratory Manual:
Characters on PDA - relatively slow growing, mycelium is floccose with rose to bergundy pigmentation that can be greyish rose at periphery. Sporodochia form in the center of the colony, in a small central spore mass and are pale orange to dark brown. Red pigments (sometimes brown) are formed in the agar.
Macroconidia typically 5-septate, but can be 3- & 4-. Microsconidia are not a reliable taxonomic indicator, and isolates which produce them have not been compared molecularly.
Images of Fusarium acuminatum
Fusarium acuminatum on Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare
Image credits: SASA, GB
Fusarium acuminatum on Oxoid PDA, image top and bottom of isolate, a close up image of the top of another isolate also on Oxoid PDA and an image of Fusarium acuminatum macrospores x200.
sterilisation: Sodium hypochlorite (1% available chlorine) 10 mins | growth time: 7 | temperature: 20oC | lighting: Dark | plate size: 90mm | agar: PDA ( Oxoid)
Fusarium acuminatum on Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare
Image credits: SASA, GB
Fusarium acuminatum on Oxoid PDA, image top and bottom of isolate, a close up image of the top of another isolate also on Oxoid PDA and an image of Fusarium acuminatum macrospores x200.
sterilisation: Sodium hypochlorite (1% available chlorine) 10 mins | growth time: 7 | temperature: 20oC | lighting: Dark | plate size: 90mm | agar: PDA ( Oxoid)
Fusarium acuminatum on Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare
Image credits: SASA, GB
Fusarium acuminatum on Oxoid PDA, image top and bottom of isolate, a close up image of the top of another isolate also on Oxoid PDA and an image of Fusarium acuminatum macrospores x200.
sterilisation: Sodium hypochlorite (1% available chlorine) 10 mins | growth time: 7 | temperature: 20oC | lighting: Dark | plate size: 90mm | agar: PDA ( Oxoid)