Fusarium equiseti
Overview
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Scientific name
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Fusarium equiseti |
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Genus
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Fusarium |
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EPPO code
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GIBBIN |
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Common name
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Head blight, root rot |
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Synonyms
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Gibberella intricans |
Description
From ISTA Common Laboratory Seed Health Testing Methods for Detecting Fungi:
On blotters: Presence of small to big, orange coloured pionnotes on seed is characteristic of the species. Usually, the number of pionnotes is high, occupying a large area of the infected seed. The pionnotes can be wet, dry looking like rocks, or sometimes accompanied by scanty mycelium.
Conidia are hyaline, falcate with a well developed pedicellate foot cell and an attenuated apical cell which is highly bent inwards, 3-7 septate but generally 5 septate, the lowermost and uppermost septa are slightly darkery than others, 22-60 x 3.5-6μm.
Images of Fusarium equiseti
Fusarium equiseti on Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris
Image credits: Nicole Calliou, CA
Colony shows the abundant white mycelium typical of F. equiseti colonies, with orange sporodochia at the center, typically in a central mass, but sometimes the mycelia can cover this. Spore image is only from 5 days of growth, so the 'tails' haven't elongated to their mature/full length yet, but the apical cell is already obviously tapered and whip-like.
sterilisation: 1% NaOCl 4 min | growth time: 5 days | temperature: 25C -/+2C | lighting: 3:1 (fluorescent:nUV), within 2 ft of light | plate size: 100mm | agar: PDA ( Neogen) |
DNA testing: None
Fusarium equiseti on Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris
Image credits: Nicole Calliou, CA
Colony shows the abundant white mycelium typical of F. equiseti colonies, with orange sporodochia at the center, typically in a central mass, but sometimes the mycelia can cover this. Spore image is only from 5 days of growth, so the 'tails' haven't elongated to their mature/full length yet, but the apical cell is already obviously tapered and whip-like.
sterilisation: 1% NaOCl 4 min | growth time: 5 days | temperature: 25C -/+2C | lighting: 3:1 (fluorescent:nUV), within 2 ft of light | plate size: 100mm | agar: PDA ( Neogen) |
DNA testing: None
Fusarium equiseti on Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris
Image credits: Nicole Calliou, CA
Colony shows the abundant white mycelium typical of F. equiseti colonies, with orange sporodochia at the center, typically in a central mass, but sometimes the mycelia can cover this. Spore image is only from 5 days of growth, so the 'tails' haven't elongated to their mature/full length yet, but the apical cell is already obviously tapered and whip-like.
sterilisation: 1% NaOCl 4 min | growth time: 5 days | temperature: 25C -/+2C | lighting: 3:1 (fluorescent:nUV), within 2 ft of light | plate size: 100mm | agar: PDA ( Neogen) |
DNA testing: None
Fusarium equiseti on Triticum spp.
Image credits: Nicole Calliou, CA
Fluffy white to peach mycelium, with orange sporodochia in central mass at colony center. Spores are only 5 days old, and the 'tails' are not yet fully grown to their full length/whip-like, but are showing obvious tapering.
sterilisation: 1% NaOCl 4 min | growth time: 5 days | temperature: 25C -/+2C | lighting: 3:1 (fluorescent:nUV), within 2 ft of light | plate size: 100mm | agar: PDA ( Neogen) |
DNA testing: None
Fusarium equiseti on Triticum spp.
Image credits: Nicole Calliou, CA
Fluffy white to peach mycelium, with orange sporodochia in central mass at colony center. Spores are only 5 days old, and the 'tails' are not yet fully grown to their full length/whip-like, but are showing obvious tapering.
sterilisation: 1% NaOCl 4 min | growth time: 5 days | temperature: 25C -/+2C | lighting: 3:1 (fluorescent:nUV), within 2 ft of light | plate size: 100mm | agar: PDA ( Neogen) |
DNA testing: None
Fusarium equiseti on Triticum spp.
Image credits: Nicole Calliou, CA
Fluffy white to peach mycelium, with orange sporodochia in central mass at colony center. Spores are only 5 days old, and the 'tails' are not yet fully grown to their full length/whip-like, but are showing obvious tapering.
sterilisation: 1% NaOCl 4 min | growth time: 5 days | temperature: 25C -/+2C | lighting: 3:1 (fluorescent:nUV), within 2 ft of light | plate size: 100mm | agar: PDA ( Neogen) |
DNA testing: None