FUSARIUM |
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Genus | Fusarium |
Species | Fusarium solani, Fusarium oxysporum, and Fusarium chlamydosporum |
Description | Most characteristic are the colourless spores (conidia), which are canoe-shaped in side view, have a distinct "foot cell" at the lower end, and are divided by several cross-walls. The conidiophores are often clustered to form sporodochia and produce large pasty masses of spores from tapered phialides. Two other spore forms may occur, microconidia (a) resembling spores and phialides of Acremonium, and chlamydospores (b), thick-walled swellings along the filaments. |
Morphological definition | The color of the colony may be white, cream, tan, salmon, cinnamon, yellow, red, violet, pink, or purple. From the reverse, it may be colorless, tan, red, dark purple, or brown. |
Availability | Common in soil and dead or living plants |
Function | causing plant disease, Phosphate solubilizer |
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