Fusarium culmorum is a fungal plant pathogen and the causal agent of seedling blight, foot rot, ear blight, stalk rot, common root rot and other diseases in cereals, grasses and a wide variety of monocot and dicot plants. In coastal dunegrass, however, it acts as a nonpathogenic symbiont, conferring both salt and drought tolerance to its host rather than causing disease. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Fusarium culmorum is a fungal plant pathogen and the causal agent of seedling blight, foot rot, ear blight, stalk rot, common root rot and other diseases in cereals, grasses and a wide variety of monocot and dicot plants.
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The ideal strategy to control the disease is the adoption of resistant cultivars, however, wheat that is highly resistant to F. culmorum has not yet been found.
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Since F. culmorum causes pre- or post-emergence damping off by colonizing seeds, sowing healthy seeds with a fungicide coat is one of the most efficient approaches of management; however, which is usually limited to the early states of the crop's growth since the fungicides can not maintain long periods of sufficient protection.
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From the cultural practices aspect, plowing is better than minimum or no tillage in F. culmorum management.
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