One Fungus, One Name: Defining the Genus <i>Fusarium</i> in a Scientifically Robust Way That Preserves Longstanding Use

Geiser, David M.; Aoki, Takayuki; Bacon, Charles W.; Baker, Scott E.; Bhattacharyya, Madan K.; Brandt, Mary E.; Brown, Daren W.; Burgess, L. W.; Chulze, Sofía Noemí; Coleman, Jeffrey J.; Correll, James C.; Covert, Sarah F.; Crous, Pedro W.; Cuomo, Christina A.; Hoog, G. S. de; Pietro, Antonio Di; Elmer, Wade H.; Epstein, Lynn; Frandsen, Rasmus John Normand; Freeman, Stanley; Gagkaeva, Tatiana; Glenn, Anthony E.; Gordon, Thomas R.; Gregory, Nancy; Hammond‐Kosack, K. E.; Hanson, Linda E.; Jiménez-Gasco, María del Mar; Kang, Seogchan; Kistler, H. Corby; Kuldau, Gretchen A.; Leslie, John F.; Logrieco, A.; Lü, Guohua; Lysøe, Erik; Ma, Lijun; McCormick, Susan P.; Migheli, Quirico; Moretti, Antonio; Munaut, Françoise; O’Donnell, Kerry; Pfenning, Ludwig H.; Ploetz, R. C.; Proctor, Robert H.; Rehner, Stephen A.; Robert, Vincent; Rooney, Alejandro P.; Salleh, Baharuddin; Scandiani, María Mercedes; Scauflaire, Jonathan; Short, Dylan P. G.; Steenkamp, Emma Theodora; Suga, Haruhisa; Summerell, Brett A.; Sutton, Deanna A.; Thrane, Ulf; Trail, Francis; Diepeningen, Anne van; VanEtten, Hans D.; Viljoen, A.; Waalwijk, C.; Ward, Todd J.; Wingfield, Michael J.; Xu, Jin‐Rong; Yang, X. B.; Yli-Mattila, Tapani; Zhang, Ning

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“…The genus Fusarium comprises a huge set of species (Geiser et al 2013) that possess a wealth of biological properties. While some species are used for the preparation of industrially applicable enzymes, others cause serious diseases in many agronomically important crops.…”

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Fusarium in the age of genomics

Waalwijk¹,

Vanheule

Audenaert

et al. 2017

Trop. plant pathol.

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Fusarium in the age of genomics

Waalwijk¹,

Vanheule

Audenaert

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Trop. plant pathol.

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“…Sexual states of many Fusarium have not yet been discovered and maybe never will, since some of them appear to have lost their ability for sexual reproduction (Nelson et al 1981). A single-name system proposed by Geiser et al (2013) unified the current usage of the name Fusarium and is used in this work.…”

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Diversity of Fusarium spp. associated with dry rot of potato tubers in Poland

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Fusarium spp. belong to the division Ascomycota and cause important plant diseases; these fungi may contaminate food products with mycotoxins, endangering human and animal health. Several Fusarium spp. have been associated with potato dry rot. The most frequent and devastating of these species are F. sambucinum, F. solani and F. oxysporum, depending on the geographic location and the season. Samples of potato tubers with dry rot symptoms were collected, and their putative fungal isolates were identified as Fusarium species using partial nucleotide sequences of the internal transcribed spacer, translation elongation factor 1-α and β-tubulin genes. Among 149 isolates, 12 species were identified. F. oxysporum was the most frequent (45 % of the isolates), followed by F. avenaceum (12.1 %), F. solani (10.7 %) and F. sambucinum (7.4 %). Phylogenetic analyses confirmed the species identifications and revealed a high diversity of F. solani and a low diversity of F. oxysporum. Potential producers of zearalenone and trichothecenes were identified within the obtained isolates using PCR markers. Isolates that were pathogenic to potatoes in laboratory tests were found in four species: F. sambucinum, F. avenaceum, F. culmorum, and F. graminearum. The effects of increased temperature and mixed inoculum on the pathogenicities of chosen species were evaluated. This study adds 434 potato-derived Fusarium sequences to the NCBI GenBank database and demonstrates that the list of Fusarium species and mycotoxins present in potato tubers may be richer than previously believed, regardless of whether these species cause dry rot or live as saprophytes.

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“…Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) is necessary to distinguish between such species [2][3][4][5]. Now that the Bone fungus = one name^rule has been adopted, a proposal was made to conserve the name Fusarium above linked sexual state names like Haemonectria and Gibberella [6], and a plea to keep the taxonomy of clinically important species as stable as possible [7]. In line with these proposals, we maintain a concept of the genus Fusarium in the broadest sense according to Geiser et al [6].…”

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Emergence of fusarioses in a university hospital in Turkey during a 20-year period

Cilo

Al‐Hatmi

Seyedmousavi

et al. 2015

Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis

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Fusarium species have started appearing increasingly as the main cause of infections, particularly in immunocompromised patients. In this study, we aimed to present the first epidemiological data from Turkey, analyze fusariosis cases that have been monitored in a university hospital during the past 20 years, identify the responsible Fusarium species, and determine antifungal susceptibilities. A total of 47 cases of fusariosis was included in the study. Fusarium isolates were identified by multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Antifungal susceptibility was tested by the broth microdilution method according to the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) methodology. Of the Fusarium infections, 23.4 % were superficial, 44.7 % were locally invasive, and 31.9 % were disseminated. A significant increase was observed over the years. The Fusarium fujikuroi species complex (FFSC) proved to be the most frequent agent group (17 cases; 51.5 %), followed by the Fusarium solani species complex (FSSC) (14 cases; 42.4 %), the Fusarium dimerum species complex (FDSC), and the Fusarium oxysporum species complexes (FOSC) (one case each). Amphotericin B had the highest in vitro activity against all species. Voriconazole and posaconazole showed interspecies variability across and within Fusarium species complexes. In conclusion, our data support the fact that regional differences exist in the distribution of the Fusarium species and that species-specific differences are observed in antifungal susceptibility patterns. The monitoring of local epidemiological data by determining fungal identity and susceptibility are of importance in guiding the clinical followup of patients.Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article

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One Fungus, One Name: Defining the Genus Fusarium in a Scientifically Robust Way That Preserves Longstanding Use

Cited by 225 publications

References 41 publications

Fusarium in the age of genomics

Fusarium in the age of genomics

Diversity of Fusarium spp. associated with dry rot of potato tubers in Poland

Emergence of fusarioses in a university hospital in Turkey during a 20-year period

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