Definition of Genus Fusarium

1. Noun. A form genus of mostly plant parasites some of which cause dry rot; in humans a species can cause inflammation of cornea leading to blindness.

Generic synonyms: Fungus Genus
Group relationships: Family Tuberculariaceae, Tuberculariaceae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Fusarium

genus Fremontia
genus Fremontodendron
genus Fringilla
genus Fritillaria
genus Froelichia
genus Fuchsia
genus Fucus
genus Fulica
genus Fulmarus
genus Fumaria
genus Fundulus
genus Fungia
genus Funka
genus Furnarius
genus Fusanus
genus Fusarium (current term)
genus Fuscoboletinus
genus Gadus
genus Gaillardia
genus Galago
genus Galax
genus Galega
genus Galeocerdo
genus Galeopsis
genus Galeorhinus
genus Galictis
genus Galium
genus Galleria
genus Gallinago
genus Gallinula

Literary usage of Genus Fusarium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Mycology and Plant Pathology by John William Harshberger (1917)
"The form genus Fusarium (Fig. 109), established by Link in 1809, is one which has come into prominence ... The genus Fusarium is divisible into sections not ..."

2. Fungous Diseases of Plants: With Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"FUSARIUM: OTHER SPECIES It is apparent that the old view, which held species of the genus Fusarium to be largely saprophytic, must be considerably modified. ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1902)
"... and of the form-genus Fusarium. Very little was known relative to the treatment of plant diseases beyond the fact that mildews in hothouses were ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"The genus Fusarium, which includes several species growing on dead animal matter of various sorts, receives an interesting addition under the name F. ..."

5. Veterinary Bacteriology: A Treatise on the Bacteria, Yeasts, Molds, and by Robert Earle Buchanan (1911)
"THE genus Fusarium The members of this genus are nearly all saprophytes or plant parasites. Fusarium is included among the Fungi imperfecti, as a sexual or ..."

6. British Fungus-flora: A Classified Text-book of Mycology by George. Massee (1893)
"Veg., p. 481; Sacc., Syll., iv. p. 725. Perhaps too closely allied to the genus Fusarium, and distinguished principally by the broadly effused, ..."

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