Fusarium ear blight (also called FEB, Fusarium head blight , FHB or Scab), is a fungal disease in plants. It is responsible for the most common damaging disease that affects golf course grass. From an economic stand point, it is one of the major cereal diseases, being responsible for significant grain yield reduction in wheat and oats. It also represents a serious threat to human health, because it is responsible for dangerous mycotoxin-infected grain and food items. Divisions Chytridiomycota Zygomycota Glomeromycota Ascomycota Basidiomycota Yellow fungus For the fictional character, see Fungus the Bogeyman. ... Golfer teeing off at the start of a hole Golf is an outdoor sport where individual players or teams play a small ball into a hole using various clubs. ... In popular language grass means a short, green, ground covering or lawn, usually, but not necessarily comprised of a true grass or grasses, called turf. ... Cereal crops are mostly grasses cultivated for their edible seeds (actually a fruit called a caryopsis). ... Species T. boeoticum T. durum T. monococcum T. spelta References: ITIS 42236 2002-09-22 Wheat (Triticum spp. ... Species References ITIS 41455 2002-09-22 Oats are the seeds of any of several cereal grains in the genus Avena. ... Mycotoxin is a toxin produced by a fungus under special conditions of moisture and temperature. ...
The Fusarium Ear Blight is due to a Fusarium fungus. There are five major species of Fusarium: Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
Fusarium pathogens decrease the quality of the harvest, and produce mycotoxins.
The most serious of the diseases attributable to Fusarium species is earblight, caused predominantly by the pathogens Fusarium graminearum and F. culmorum.
Fusarium pathogens overwinter as conidia and ascospores on moribund plant residues such as straw and stubble.
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