Fusarium graminearum

TaxID: 5518

Basic Information

Fusarium graminearum

Gibberella Stalk Rot

Gibberella zeae, also known by the name of its anamorph Fusarium graminearum, is a fungal plant pathogen which causes fusarium head blight (FHB), a devastating disease on wheat and barley. The pathogen is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year. Infection causes shifts in the amino acid composition of wheat, resulting in shriveled kernels and contaminating the remaining grain with mycotoxins, mainly deoxynivalenol (DON), which inhibits protein biosynthesis; and zearalenone, an estrogenic mycotoxin. These toxins cause vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive defects in livestock, and are harmful to humans through contaminated food. Despite great efforts to find resistance genes against F. graminearum, no completely resistant variety is currently available. Research on the biology of F. graminearum is directed towards gaining insight into more details about the infection process and reveal weak spots in the life cycle of this pathogen to develop fungicides that can protect wheat from scab infection.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Ascomycota

Sordariomycetes

Hypocreales

Nectriaceae

Fusarium

graminearum

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Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Chloe Siegel@BY-NC
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Fusarium graminearum
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(c) Chloe Siegel@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (4 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Egypt Regulated non-quarantine pest 2018
Malaysia Quarantine pests —
Panama Quarantine pests —
Thailand Quarantine pests —

Distribution (49 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Algeria Present —
Argentina Present —
Australia Present —
Austria Present —
Belgium Present —
Brazil Present —
Central African Republic Present —
Cambodia Present —
Canada Present —
Switzerland Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_000599445.1 Chromosome 36 258 8791 -

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR36590262 - - - 22410455 not applicable
SRR36590261 - - - 22393024 not applicable
SRR36590260 - - - 22401615 not applicable

DNA Barcodes (146 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
JRPAA9689-15 - COI-5P 1590 - - -
JRPAA4218-15 - COI-5P 1590 - - -
HY076-07 - CYTB 278 United States 1980-01-01 -
HY048-07 - COI-5P 591 United States 1980-01-01 -
GBHYP9112-13 - ITS 545 - - -
GBHYP9111-13 - ITS 575 - - -
GBHYP7937-13 - ITS 522 - - -
GBHYP7936-13 - ITS 525 - - -
GBHYP7633-13 - ITS 528 - - -
GBHYP6966-13 - ITS 456 - - -
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Literature