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THE genus Fusarium has 16 sections, many of which have a sexual stage, belonging to such Ascomycete genera as Nectria, Calonectria, Hypomyces and Gibberella. Fusarium oxysporum, the form species of the section Elegans, is a widely distributed soil-borne fungus that causes wilt in many economically important crops. It has no known perfect analogue, although it can achieve genetic variation through asexual methods of recombination1,2.
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BUXTON, E. Production of a Perfect Stage in a Nutritionally Deficient Mutant of Pathogenic Fusarium oxysporum after Ultra-violet Irradiation. Nature 184, 1258 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841258a0
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