Fusarium crookwellense (syn. Fusarium cerealis)Fusarium crookwellense. MycoBank. is a species of fungus in the family Nectriaceae. It is known as a plant pathogen that infects agricultural crops.
The fungus was first described in 1982 after it was found infecting potatoes in Australia.Sugiura, Y., et al. (1993). Fusarium poae and Fusarium crookwellense, fungi responsible for the natural occurrence of nivalenol in Hokkaido. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 59(10) 3334-8. It causes plant diseases such as corn ear rot and wheat head blight.Glenn, A. E. (2007). Mycotoxigenic Fusarium species in animal feed. Animal Feed Science and Technology 137 213-40. It has also been found on hops causing a necrotic blight on the cones.Pethybridge, S. J., et al. (2001). First report of Fusarium crookwellense causing tip blight on cones of hop. Plant Disease 85(11) 1208.
Like other species in genus Fusarium, this fungus produces mycotoxins. It is a source of nivalenol, 4-acetylnivalenol, and zearalenone.Sugiura, Y., et al. (1994). Fusarium crookwellense, a newly isolated fungus from wheat in Japan: Its mycotoxin production and pathogenicity to wheat and barley. Mycoscience 35 77-82.
See also List of potato diseases
References
External links Fusarium crookwellense. Index Fungorum.