How do you identify a Fusarium?

Fusarium species were identified according to their macroscopic characteristics, which included colony morphology, color, the growth rate of molds, the microscopic characteristics of their hyphae, spores and conidia, and the relationships among these characteristics in specimens grown on PDA.

How many species of Fusarium are there?

The filamentous fungal genus Fusarium has a worldwide distribution and contains at least 300 phylogenetically distinct species/species complexes (O’Donnell et al., 2015).

What are the colony morphology traits of Fusarium species?

Table 1

Morphological characterization	F. solani
Colony coloura	Pale to brown, brown-greenish to white-greenish	White-creamy to white-greyish
Pigmentationb	Pale brown yellowish brown with dark brown zonation	Colourless, white-creamy with dark brown zonation
Growth rate (cm)c	3.3 ± 0.2	3.5 ± 0.2
Microscopic characteristic

Is Fusarium a dermatophyte?

Fusarium spp are non-dermatophytic hyaline moulds found as saprophytes and plant pathogens. Human infections are probably a result of various precipitating predisposing factors of impaired immune status. Immunocompetent individuals of late are also vulnerable to various unassuming saprophytic and plant pathogens.

What are Fusarium species?

Fusarium is a filamentous fungus that is widely distributed in plants and soils. The genus contains over 20 species, of which 14 are significant to crop producers because of the diseases they cause. Most Fusarium species are common in tropical and sub-tropical regions with some found in temperate zones.

What is the common name of Fusarium?

Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense is a fungal plant pathogen that causes Panama disease of banana (Musa spp.), also known as fusarium wilt of banana.

Does Fusarium have Septate hyphae?

On slide culture, Fusarium species appears as septate hyaline hyphae with acute angle branching. The appearance of banana or sickle-shaped macroconidia on lactophenol preparation is a pathognomonic feature of Fusarium species.

What type of fungi is Fusarium?

What type of hyphae does Fusarium have?

septate
Microscopically, the hyphae of Fusarium in tissue resemble those of Aspergillus spp.; the filaments are hyaline, septate, and 3–8 μm in diameter. They typically branch at acute and at right angles.

Is Fusarium a yeast or mold?

Non-Aspergillus molds include mucormycetes such as Rhizopus and Mucor species, hyaline (colorless) molds such as Fusarium species, and dematiaceous (dark, melanin-containing) molds such as Curvularia and Exophiala species.

What color is Fusarium mold?

There are many varieties of this mold, and it can appear pale or brightly colored, with a cottony surface. The color can range from white to yellow, brown, pink or yellow. In the garden or greenhouse, fusarium can affect tomatoes, tobacco, legumes, sweet potatoes and bananas.

Is Fusarium a bacteria or fungi?

Fusarium /fjuˈzɛəriəm/ (help·info) 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 soil microbial community.

Is fusarium black mold?

The color can range from white to yellow, brown, pink or yellow. In the garden or greenhouse, fusarium can affect tomatoes, tobacco, legumes, sweet potatoes and bananas. Billions of dollars of barley and wheat crops in the U.S. have been lost to root rot and seedling blight caused by this mold.