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Pathogen

Fusarium equiseti

Overview

Scientific name

Fusarium equiseti

Genus

Fusarium

EPPO code

GIBBIN

Common name

Head blight, root rot

Synonyms

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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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