2025/02/02 by Imane Belabed, Nouari Sadrati, Amor Bencheikh +2
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Biology #Blight #Botany #Fusarium #Head (geology) #Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions #Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food #Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
paper · doi:10.1080/0028825x.2025.2455043
crossref issued 2025/02/02 · crossref published 2025/02/02 · crossref published-online 2025/02/02 · openalex publication_date 2025/02/02 · crossref created 2025/02/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · crossref published-print 2025/12/02 · crossref deposited 2026/01/05 · crossref indexed 2026/08/02 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/02
Fusarium head blight (FHB) occurs in all cereal growing areas of Algeria, but knowledge on the occurrence and phylogenetic position of FHB pathogens is lacking. In the present work, eleven Fusarium isolates, recovered from diseased durum wheat seeds in northeast Algeria, were identified using morphological markers and multi-locus phylogenetic analysis. The isolates were from six species distributed among four species complexes. Fusarium incarnatum-equiseti species complex and F. tricinctum species complex yielded 4 isolates each, followed by F. sambucinum species complex (2 isolates), and a single isolate belonging to F. chlamydosporum species complex. Potato sucrose agar was the most efficient medium for spore production of Fusarium species. F. clavum, F. microconidium and F. tricinctum are reported for the first time causing FHB on durum wheat in Algeria while F. microconidium is the first world report from durum wheat.