AT FIRST DETECTION OF FUNGUS <i>FUSARIUM TORULOSUM </i>IN RUSSIA
To our knowledge, this is the first found and precisely identified strain of Fusarium torulosum on the territory of Russia. The identification of strain was confirmed by sequence 514 bp of TEF-1a gene. The strain was isolated from grain of barley harvested in Leningrad region in 2006. F. torulosum belong to the group of species F. sambucinum s. lato. The results of study of the different characters of this F. torulosum isolate versus F. culmorum, and review of the modern information about this Fusarium species are presented.