Fusarium Moniliforme
Fusarium verticillioides is that the most ordinarily reported
fungal species infecting
maize (Zea mays).
Fusarium verticillioides is that the accepted name of the species, which was also referred to as
Fusarium moniliforme. The
species has also been described as mating population A of the
Fusarium fujikuroi
species complex (formally referred to as Gibberella fujikuroi
species complex). F. verticllioides produces the mutagenic compound fusarin C. F. verticillioides produces a gaggle of disease-causing mycotoxins—fumonisins—on infected kernels.
Fusarium moniliforme has been reported as an agent of cutaneous disease in man, as a new agent of mycetoma in Europe, as an agent of keratitis. Septic arthritis, and disseminated infections in a patients with malignant lymphoma, and acute lymphocytic leukemia[GP1] patient. A deep mycoses was reported under the name F. verticilloides. It has also been cited as an agent of mycotic pneumonia in an alligator.
Fusarium moniliforme differs from the 2 commonest species, F. solani and F. oxysporum, by forming microconidia chained , and from F. proliferatum, by lacking polyphialides (phialides with more than one opening not delimited by a septum).Hyphae are septate and hyaline. Conidiophores are medium length (shorter than in F. solani and longer than those seen in F. oxysporum), simple or branched. Conidiogenous
cells are monophialides. Macroconidia are sparse, very slightly sickle-shaped to just about straight, i.e., “string bean-like”, 5-septate, measuring 31-58 x 2.7-3.6 µm.
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