DISTRIBUTION AND DIVERSITY OF FUSARIUM SPECIES ASSOCIATED WITH GRASSES IN TEN STATES THROUGHOUT PENINSULAR MALAYSIA

Authors

  • NUR AIN IZZATI, M.Z
    izzati@science.upm.edu.my
    Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
  • SITI NORDAHLIAWATE, M.S. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
  • NOR AZLIZA, I Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
  • SALLEH, B Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Vol. 16 No. 2 (2009)
Research Paper
July 29, 2011
January 11, 2024

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Fusarium  is one of   the  important genera associated with grasses as saprophytes endophytes
and  pathogens A  study was  carried  out  on  distribution  and  diversity  of  Fusarium  species
associated  with  two  groups  of   grasses  in  10  states  throughout  Peninsular  Malaysia  ie
agricultural  grasses  Oryza  sativa  and  Saccharum  officinarum  and  nonagricultural  grasses
Axonopus compressus Centhotheca lappacea Chloris barbata Crysopogon aciculatus Cyanadon dactylon
Dactyloctenium  aegyptium Digitaria  ciliaris  Echinochloa  colona  Eleusine  indica  Eragrostis  amabilis
Eragrostis malayana Eragrostis uniloides Ischaemum magnum Panicum brevifolium Panicum millaneum
Panicum repens Paspalum  commersonii Paspalum  conjugatum Paspalum orbiculare Pennisetum purpureum
Sacciolepis  indica Sporobolus diander and Sporobolus  indicus A  total of  474  isolates were single
spored and  identified by morphological characteristics F  semitectum was  frequently  isolated
236 followed by F sacchari and F fujikuroi with 154 and 146 respectively The other
nine species were F solani 103 F proliferatum 89 F oxysporum 74 F subglutinans
65 F  equiseti  55 F  verticillioides  34 F  compactum  25 F  chlamydosporum  11 and
F longipes 08 Based on the ShannonWeiner Index F solani was the highest H 262
isolated from grasses Species of  Fusarium from O sativa were widely diverse with 11 species
followed by nonagricultural grasses with nine species and S officinarum with only six species
This  is  the  first  report on diversity of  Fusarium associated with grasses  in Malaysia
Key words Oryza  sativa  Saccharum  officinarum  nonagricultural  grass  Fusarium  species
diversity  and Gramineae