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 | |
| |
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.