Definition of Fusarium

1. Noun. (biology) Any of various fungi, of the genus ''Fusarium'', that are pathogenic to plants and animals ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fusarium

1. a disease-causing fungus [n -SARIA]

Medical Definition of Fusarium

1. Fusarium is a genus of imperfect fungi (order Hypocreales), some members of this genus are extremely pathogenic to plants and animals. (05 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fusarium

furze pig
furzechat
furzechats
furzeling
furzen
furzes
furzier
furziest
furzy
fusa
fusain
fusains
fusaria
fusaric acid
fusariosis
fusarium (current term)
fusarium oxysporum
fusarium solani
fusarium wilt
fusarol
fusarole
fusaroles
fusarols
fusc
fuscation
fuschia
fuschias
fuscin
fuscine
fuscous

Literary usage of Fusarium

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

1. 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. ..."

2. Phytopathology by American Phytopathological Society (1917)
"... have been able to produce propi- onic aldehyde by the action of yeast on o-keto butyric arid. That aldehydes are generated during the growth of fusarium ..."

3. Forest Tree Seed Health: : Health for Germplasm Conservationby Jack R. Sutherland, Patricia Berjak, Marlene Diekmann by Jack R. Sutherland, Patricia Berjak, Marlene Diekmann (2002)
"(1990) list 29 fusarium spp. or f. sp. on numerous species of tree seeds. In one study alone, Prochazkova and Jancarik (1991) isolated 28 fusarium spp. from ..."

4. Micro-organisms and Fermentation by Alfred Peter Carlslund Jørgensen, Alfred Jörgensen, Alexander Kenneth Miller, A. E. Lennholm (1900)
"The red colour occasionally occurring on malt-corns is due to various fungi, among which is a fusarium described by Fio. ..."

5. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1889)
"In the first place, germinating conidia of the fusarium were repeatedly sown on the uninjured surface of both green and ripe tomatoes, ..."

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