AT FIRST DETECTION OF FUNGUS <i>FUSARIUM TORULOSUM </i>IN RUSSIA
To our knowledge, this is the first found and precisely identified strain of <i>Fusarium torulosum </i>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. <i>torulosum </i>belong to the group of species F. <i>sambucinum </i>s. lato. The results of study of the different characters of this F. <i>torulosum </i>isolate versus F. <i>culmorum, </i>and review of the modern information about this <i>Fusarium </i>species are presented.