Microbes and Plant Diseases

Fusarium oxysporum is a fungal plant pathogen that causes Panama disease of bananas.

Fusarium graminearum is a plant pathogen which causes fusarium head blight, a devastating disease on wheat and barley.

Puccinia asparagi is the causative agent of asparagus rust. It is an autoecious fungus, meaning that all stages of its life cycle – pyciniospores, aeciospores and teliospores develop upon the same host plant.

 It causes Verticillium Wilt or Maple Wilt. It attacks over 300 different cultivated plants and can persist as a saprotrophic soil organism for more than 15 years.

Pine trees are susceptible to pine pitch canker. Pine pitch canker first kills the tips of branches, then spreads down the entire length of branches, and ultimately it can kill the whole tree. Infected trees die because the fungus thrives inside the tree's vascular tissue and blocks its water supply. The fungus is spread through beetles that attack pine cones.

This is the correct option, as ringworm is cause by a fungi.

This is the correct option, as Aspergillus is a fungi.

This is the correct option. The fungi of yeast is very small in size, and can be only seen with the help of a microscope.

Diatoms is an example of mould fungi, is a false statement. Thus, it is the correct option. Diatoms is an example of an algae.

Yes, both are caused by fungus. Ergot of Rye is a plant disease that is caused by the fungus Claviceps purpurea. Powdery mildew of cucurbits is caused by two fungus: Sphaerotheca fuliginea and Erysiphe cichoracearum.

Athlete's foot is a common fungal infection that typically affects the skin between the toes. It thrives in warm, moist environments.

Patients with primary immunodeficiencies are susceptible to Aspergillus species infections, particularly when cell-mediated immunity is compromised.

This fungi is usually as a saprophytic contaminant. World-wide, known as an insect parasite. Sympodial development of single-celled conidia on a narrow geniculate or zig-zag rachis emanating from a flask-shaped conidiophore.

It is a common human pathogen causing pulmonary, rhinocerebral, disseminated, CNS  zygomycosis. It is a small pyriform shaped sporangia with a characteristic conical shaped columellae and pronounced apophysis.

Dermatophytosis of the scalp, glabrous skin, and nails is caused by dermatophytes which have the ability to utilise keratin as a nutrient source. No living tissue is invaded, the keratinised stratum corneum is simply colonised.