VPRI 19338

Strain information

• VPRI 19338 = DAOM 238079
• anamorph isolate of Fusarium bullatum Sherb.
• Australia, Victoria, Piangil
• on melon (Cucumis melo)
• isolated 28 April 1993 by C. Copes

Colony morphology

Colony: surface on PDA

Colony: reverse on PDA

After 14 days on PDA:

• aerial mycelium abundant, rather dense (lanose), cotton- and felt-like, no pionnotal segments, colony margin lobed, colony growth somewhat convulsive, after 12d 53–70 mm in diam, white to orange white (5A2)
• reverse colony white at growth margin (finely lobed), soon becoming light orange (6A5) to grayish orange (5B5) toward colony centre
• sclerotial bodies not observed
• odor not perceptible

After 14 days on SNA:

• aerial mycelium sparse, felt-like, white
• filter paper white, partly overgrown with mycelium
• sporodochia present, up to 1mm in diam, light orange

Micromorphology (on SNA)

Conidiophores

Phialides

Conidia

Chlamydospores