Fusarium spp.
foot and/or root rot of the infected host plant, and the disease may manifest as wilting, stunting and chlorosis or lesions on the stem and/or leaves. Life [...] years in the soil, and on crop residues of infected plants, as chlamydospores (thick walled mycelium cells) or mycelium. Survival is also possible on seed [...] machinery. Primary infection is either seed-borne or takes place as infection of the roots at the root tip, or in small wounds, for example where lateral roots