''Fusarium crookwellense'' (syn. ''Fusarium cerealis'') is a species of
fungus
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in the family
Nectriaceae. It is known as a
plant pathogen that infects agricultural crops.
The fungus was first described in 1982 after it was found infecting
potato
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es in
Australia
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.
[Sugiura, Y., et al. (1993)]
''Fusarium poae'' and ''Fusarium crookwellense'', fungi responsible for the natural occurrence of nivalenol in Hokkaido.
''Applied and Environmental Microbiology'' 59(10) 3334-8. It causes plant diseases such as corn ear rot and wheat head blight. It has also been found on
hops
Hops are the flowers (also called seed cones or strobiles) of the hop plant ''Humulus lupulus'', a member of the Cannabaceae family of flowering plants. They are used primarily as a bittering, flavouring, and stability agent in beer, to whic ...
causing a necrotic blight on the cones.
Like other species in genus ''
Fusarium
''Fusarium'' (; ) is a large genus of filamentous fungi, part of a group often referred to as hyphomycetes, widely distributed in soil and associated with plants. Most species are harmless saprobes, and are relatively abundant members of the s ...
'', this fungus produces
mycotoxins. It is a source of
nivalenol, 4-acetylnivalenol, and
zearalenone.
[Sugiura, Y., et al. (1994)]
''Fusarium crookwellense'', a newly isolated fungus from wheat in Japan: Its mycotoxin production and pathogenicity to wheat and barley.
''Mycoscience'' 35 77-82.
See also
*
List of potato diseases
References
External links
''Fusarium crookwellense.''Index Fungorum.
crookwellense
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Potato diseases
Fungi described in 1982
Fungus species
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