Head blight of durum wheat caused by Fusarium asiaticum

Fusarium asiaticum was repeatedly isolated from blighted spikes of durum wheat with head blight-like symptoms in our experimental fields in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture in western Japan, then demonstrated to be pathogenic to the crop. F. asiaticum was not previously reported as causing head blight on durum wheat, so it has been added to the pathogens causing this disease.