Marvelous Microbe Collections Accelerate Discoveries To Protect People, Plants—and More

摘要

What you may not have known: ARSexperts at the National Center for AgriculturalUtilization Research in Peoria,Illinois, did the detective work necessaryto precisely identify these molds—whichturned out to be Fusarium species.These researchers derived the correctidentification by working with a databaseof distinctive Fusarium genetic materialthat can be used to reliably differentiateamong the many Fusarium species thatcause disease.