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gray, becoming dark near the margins with 1-cm submerged<br />

advancing mycelia. The colony on the reverse<br />

side of the agar plate is slightly zonated and<br />

dark purplish gray, becoming lighter outward.<br />

Colonies on VJA incubated at ART (28–30 °C)<br />

grow very slowly and attain a 2.96-cm diam in 5 d.<br />

They appear azonated, felted with even margins, and<br />

white with light gray portions. The colony on the reverse<br />

side of the agar plate appears azonated and<br />

brown-purple. At 21 °C under alternating 12-h NUV<br />

light and 12-h darkness, colonies grow very slowly<br />

and attain a 2.04-cm diam in 5 d. They appear zonated,<br />

slightly floccose to felted with radial furrows,<br />

and gray, becoming light gray toward the margins.<br />

The colony on the reverse side of the agar plate is<br />

zonated with radial wrinkles and brown-purple,<br />

becoming lighter toward the margin. At 28 °C under<br />

alternating 12-h fluorescent light and 12-h darkness,<br />

colonies grow very slowly and attain a 2.96-cm<br />

diam in 5 d. They appear azonated, becoming<br />

slightly zonated toward the margin, slightly felted<br />

with radial furrows and even margins, and gray,<br />

becoming lighter outward. The colony on the reverse<br />

side of the agar plate is azonated, becoming<br />

zonated toward the margins, with radial wrinkles<br />

and brown-purple, becoming lighter outward.<br />

Seedborne fungi causing stem, leaf sheath, and root diseases in rice<br />

Fusarium moniliforme Sheld.<br />

syn. Fusarium heterosporum Nees<br />

Fusarium verticillioides (Sacc.) Nirenberg<br />

Lisea fujikuroi Sawada<br />

teleomorph: Gibberella fujikuroi (Sawada) S. Ito<br />

Gibberella moniliformis Wineland<br />

Gibberella moniliforme<br />

Disease caused: bakanae, foot rot<br />

a. Symptoms<br />

The most conspicuous and common symptoms<br />

are the bakanae tillers or seedlings—an abnormal<br />

elongation of seedlings that are thin and yellowish<br />

green. These can be observed in the seedbed and<br />

in the field. In mature crops, infected plants may<br />

have a few tall, lanky tillers with pale green flag<br />

leaves; leaves dry up one after the other from<br />

below and eventually die. If the crop survives,<br />

panicles are empty.<br />

b. Occurrence/distribution<br />

The disease is widely distributed in all rice-growing<br />

countries (Fig. 28). The pathogen detected in<br />

Africa is closely associated with that from maize<br />

and sorghum.<br />

c. Disease history<br />

This disease has been known since 1828 in Japan.<br />

In India, the disease was described as causing<br />

foot rot in 1931. Fujikuroi found the teleomorph<br />

and the fungus was placed in the genus<br />

Gibberella as G. fujikuroi with Fusarium<br />

moniliforme as its anamorph.<br />

d. Importance in crop production<br />

The disease can be observed in seedbeds and in<br />

the field. Infected seedlings are either taller than<br />

normal seedlings or stunted. Infected mature<br />

plants eventually wither and die. When such<br />

plants reach the reproductive stage, they bear<br />

empty panicles. Across different rice production<br />

situations, bakanae can cause 0.01% yield loss in<br />

Asia.<br />

Detection on seed<br />

a. Incubation on blotter<br />

Using the blotter test, F. moniliforme can be observed<br />

on rice seeds 5 d after incubating seeds<br />

under NUV light at 21 °C. The detection frequency<br />

is about 28.1% on seeds coming from<br />

different regions (Fig. 29a,b).<br />

b. Habit character<br />

There are abundant aerial mycelia, floccose to<br />

felted, with loose and abundant branching, dirty<br />

white to peach. The conidiophores terminate in<br />

false heads and dirty white to peach pionnotes<br />

may be present (Fig. 30a-c).<br />

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