fusarium

[fyoo-zair-ee-uhm]

noun

plural

fusaria 

1. any fungus of the genus Fusarium, occurring primarily in temperate regions and causing a variety of diseases in plants and animals, producing in humans a loss of fingernails and sometimes blindness.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fusarium¹

< New Latin (1832), equivalent to Latin fūs ( us ) spindle + -ārium -ary

Example Sentences

Among the many mycoprotein sources studied so far, the fungus Fusarium venenatum has become a prominent choice because its natural flavor and texture closely mimic meat.

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Even with its advantages, Fusarium venenatum has thick cell walls that limit how well humans can digest it.

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The fusarium wilt fungus was born in California; it goes after vulnerable palms.

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The scientists confirm the presence of genetically differentiated lineages with different host-specificity for arabica and robusta coffee and show that the fungal pathogen F. xylarioides repeatedly took up "horizontally transferred" segments of DNA from a related fungal Fusarium taxa which contributed to successive outbreaks of the disease.

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Dr Peck also said that multiple transfers into F. xylarioides populations matched different parts of the Fusarium oxysporum mobile pathogenicity chromosome and were enriched in effector genes and transposons.

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