Fusarium culmorum

Fusarium culmorum
	(A) macroconidia; (B) browning on the stem base; (C) reddish‐pink discoloration on the basal nodes; (D,E) presence of whiteheads
	(A,B) head blight symptoms; (C) brown/purplish discoloration below head; (D–F) orange sporodochia on spikelets
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Sordariomycetes
Order:	Hypocreales
Family:	Nectriaceae
Genus:	Fusarium
Species:	F. culmorum
Binomial name
	Fusarium culmorum; (Wm.G.Sm.) Sacc. (1892)
Synonyms
	Fusisporium culmorum Wm.G.Sm. (1884);

Fusarium culmorum is a fungal plant pathogen and the causal agent of seedling blight, foot rot, ear blight, stalk rot, common root rot and other diseases of cereals, grasses, and a wide variety of monocots and dicots. In coastal dunegrass (Leymus mollis), F. culmorum is a nonpathogenic symbiont conferring both salt and drought tolerance to the plant.^[1]

^ Rodriguez, Rusty; Regina Redman (2008). "More than 400 million years of evolution and some plants still can't make it on their own: plant stress tolerance via fungal symbiosis". Journal of Experimental Botany: 1109–1114. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[Journal_of_Experimental_Botany-1] Rodriguez, Rusty; Regina Redman (2008). "More than 400 million years of evolution and some plants still can't make it on their own: plant stress tolerance via fungal symbiosis". Journal of Experimental Botany: 1109–1114. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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