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Article: Whole-cell protein and ITS rDNA profiles as diagnostic tools to discriminate Fusarium avenaceum intraspecific variability and associated virulence.(recombinant deoxyriboNucleic acid )(Report)
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- Canadian Journal of Microbiology
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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Introduction
The Fusarium Link mitosporic genus, with teleomorph in Giberrella Sacc. (Ascomycota), represents one of the major fungal genera worldwide (Leslie and Summerell 2006). Several species are cereal pathogens that cause Fusarium head blight (FHB), Fusarium damaged kernels (FDK), damping-off, wilt, crown, and root-rot disease symptoms. Fusarium causes the most significant cereal diseases in North America, resulting in low-quality seeds and threatening small-kernel crop production (Symons et al. 2002). The diseases have cost North America's cereal industry almost $5 billion (CAD) annually (Bai and Shaner 2004). Recent results have indicated that ...