First Report Of Fusarium Graminearum Causing Flower Blight On Hemp (Cannabis Sativa) In Kentucky

A fragment of the translation elongation issue 1-alpha 1 gene was amplified with primers EF1 and EF2 as described by O’Donnell et al. 1998). Amplicons had been sequenced, and the consensus (MZ407909) was compared with the NCBI GenBank Refseq database by BLASTn. The highest hit was Fusarium graminearum with 100% id (JF270185.1). Pairwise alignments through…