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Fruiting body of Fusarium is

A. Acervulus

B. Sporodochia

C. Pycnidium

D. All of these

Answer: Option B

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Fruiting body of Fusarium is Sporodochia.
A sporodochium (pl. sporodochia) is a small, compact stroma (mass of hyphae) usually formed on host plants parasitized by mitosporic fungi. This stroma bears the conidiophores on which the asexual spores or conidia are formed.
Fusarium graminearum has become a model system for studies in development and pathogenicity of filamentous fungi. F. graminearum most easily produces fruiting bodies, called sporodochia.

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