Sentences with word «fusarium»

The disease is caused by strains of a soil fungus called Fusarium oxysporum f. sp.cubense (Foc).

By 1890, the same disease appeared in Gros Michel crops in Costa Rica and Panama, and 20 years later, it was finally attributed to the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp.

This suggests that the UK too will suffer a greater incidence of fusarium ear blight on wheat crops — greatly affecting one of our biggest staple crops.

In the 1990s, the Cavendish's own nemesis surfaced in Southeast Asia: a related fungus called Fusarium wilt tropical race 4 (TR4).

RNAi may also benefit major staple - food crops, protecting wheat against stem rust, rice against blast, potato against blight and banana against fusarium wilt.

The researchers carried out a survey in China to establish a link between weather and the severity of epidemics of fusarium ear blight on the wheat crops.

As more such species are sequenced, he says, «everyone will be using these» genomes to find out which genes are responsible for particular functions, especially for plant pathogens such as Fusarium, which causes ear rot in corn and puts out mycotoxins in animal feed.

Deoxynivalenol: Mycotoxin produced by the fungus Fusarium graminearum and other fungi that occurs mainly in grains such as wheat, barley, oats and maize, also known as vomitoxin.

Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) is a fungal disease that affects worldwide wheat production due to dramatic yield loss, and reduced grain quality from toxins that make harvests unsuitable for consumption.

I suppose I understand the decision — Fusarium venenatum doesn't really have a ring to it — but it's not really the origin of the stuff that turns me off (although that doesn't help).

We now know the genome sequences of the banana and the fungi that cause Fusarium wilt and Sigatoka.

Dr. Wenwei Xu, Texas A&M AgriLife Research corn breeder in Lubbock, examines a field of corn in the southern High Plains of Texas for Fusarium fungus disease.

Causal agent: A number of different fungi and fungi - like organisms cause the symptoms of damping off, including: Alternaria species, Botrytis, and Fusarium species.

Transcriptional profiling of watermelon during its incompatible interaction with Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum

Fusarium makes endocrine disrupting mycotoxins that are thousands of times stronger than normal female estrogen.

Rodríguez - Carrasco Y, Fattore M, Albrizio S, Berrada H, Mañes J. «Occurrence of Fusarium mycotoxins and their dietary intake through beer consumption by the European population».

The first losses followed soon after Fusarium wilt was reported in Panama and Costa Rica in the 1890s (the strains that cause disease on Gros Michel would later become known as race 1).

Over the past year, specific production research projects have concentrated on improving yields with better salinity and water management, plant breeding, avocado tree monitoring, pesticide resistance and Fusarium dieback disease.

For her doctorate she bred pea plants to resist fusarium wilt, a common pathogen that also affects tomatoes and potatoes.

In a world where more than one billion people do not have enough to eat, and our future food security is threatened by climate change and an ever - growing population, it is essential to improve the control of crop diseases like fusarium ear blight around the globe.

Soybeans in the second vegetative stage infected with the pathogen Fusarium proliferatum have underdeveloped root structures in comparison to healthy soybean seedlings.

In recent years there's been several reports of a fungus, Fusarium solani, that has infected sea turtle eggs.

According to the polytechnic specialist, Trichoderma koningiopsis in some cases combats or prevents the growth of pathogens that attack cotton plant as P. omnívora, Fusarium spp and Macrophomina phaseolina.

Currently the betting is on fungi of the group Fusarium as the culprits.

The team found that simply replacing the baker's yeast mating receptor gene with similar genes from other pathogenic species — including Magnaporthe oryzae, which causes blast disease in rice, and Fusarium graminearum, which causes blight disease in wheat and barley — allowed them to create a total of 10 new strains that can each detect a different disease.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Scientists at Washington State University and Kansas State University have isolated and cloned a gene that provides resistance to Fusarium head blight, or wheat scab, a crippling disease that caused $ 7.6 billion in losses in U.S. wheat fields between 1993 and 2001.

This chili — and many like it — is plagued by a fungus called Fusarium, which enters the peppers once bugs have poked holes in them and eats away the seeds.

The official name is Fusarium venenatum.

To further aggravate the situation, Cavendish is also now under attack from a recently emerged strain of Fusarium oxysporum, known as Tropical Race 4 (TR4).

In the cucurbit world, this means faster breeding for resistance to diseases such as fusarium wilt or powdery mildew — that white film many gardeners might find killing their squash leaves, or enhancing production of carotenoids — the orange pigments associated with eye health, among other benefits.

In 1950, United Fruit (nowadays Chiquita) hired Robert H. Stover to devise management strategies for Fusarium wilt, which by then was threatening the very existence of the export trade based on Gros Michel.

Association analysis for disease resistance to Fusarium oxysporum in cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana L)

When Cavendish cultivars exhibiting symptoms of Fusarium wilt were first observed, the isolates were classified as race 4.

A soilborne pathogen was to blame: The fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp.

A fungal disease called Fusarium wilt or Panama disease nearly wiped out the Gros Michel and brought the global banana export industry to the brink of collapse.

Fusarium wilt is responsible for the demise of the export trade based on Gros Michel.

Smith recognized that the isolated fungus was in the genus Fusarium, and due to its Cuban source named it F. cubense.

Pages 70 - 82 in: Fusarium.

Banana breeding and Fusarium wilt.

Variability in populations of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense from the Asia / Pacific region.

Gene genealogies and AFLP analyses in the Fusarium oxysporum complex identify monophyletic and nonmonophyletic formae speciales causing wilt and rot disease.

Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense, Distribution Maps of Plant Diseases.

A.M. (2008) Differences between spring wheat cultivars in susceptibility to Fusarium caused seedling blight.

G.J.H.M. and Timmermans, Dr. B.G.H. (2009) Fusarium in wheat.

Symptoms: Often called chile wilt, it differs from vascular wilts caused by Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporum.

Causal agent: Several fungi, such as Pythium, Rhizoctonia, Fusarium, etc. are associated with this disorder.

An expert on Fusarium fungus, David M. Geiser of the Pennsylvania State University Fusarium Research Center, told the FDA that calling the Fusarium fungus that is the basis of Quorn foods a mushroom is like «calling a rat a chicken because both are animals.»

For soilborne pathogens (Verticillium, Fusarium, Pythium, Rhizoctonia, nematodes, etc.), a chemical, such as metham sodium (Vapam), may be added to the soil.