Acremonium strictum is an environmentally widespread saprotroph species found in soil, plant debris, and rotting mushrooms.

[2] A. strictum is an agent of hyalohyphomycosis and has been identified as an increasingly frequent human pathogen in immunosuppressed individuals, causing localized, disseminated and invasive infections.

[13] Characteristic morphology in this genus is septate hyphae giving rise to thin, tapered aculeate phialides that are usually unicellular, or weakly branched conidiophores.

[6][14][15] Acremonium strictum grows readily at 30 °C on glucose peptone agar, showing mycelium of approximately 50mm in size in 7 days.

[1] Conidia grow as wet clusters or dry chains,[1] and grains produced are white to pale-yellow, soft and variable in shape.

[12] As a human pathogen, diagnosis is made in isolation and identification of the fungus from granules in tissue and the presence of hyphae in microscopic examination of cutaneous biopsy and discharge.

Many environmental factors such as the density of fungi in soil, rainfall, temperature, humidity and types of vegetation in close contact are relevant in determining the likelihood of acquiring hyalohypjomycosis infection by A.

Commonly referred to as silver scurf, H. solani causes blemishes that decreases the quality of the crop, making it unfit for marketing.

This evidence suggests that A. strictum may be used as a biological control agent against H. solani, which would greatly increase potato crop yields.

Because of its ubiquitous presence in soils, A. strictum negatively impacts many agricultural plants, although more research is needed to investigate the parasitic interactions and develop strategies for its biological control.

This treatment of A. strictum coupled with Trichoderma harzianum was found to be a very promising combination in the control of M. incognita in tomato plants.

[21] Eventually the necrotic regions expand and cause the plant to wilt, but crown rot is not observed at any stage of the infection.

Under mild drought conditions, A. strictum enhanced leaf soluble sugars, proteins, proline and antioxidant enzyme activity, which decreased the degree of plasmalemma oxidation.

[8] In Maclura cochinchinensis, Acremonium strictum acts as an endophytic fungi that infects primarily the leaves of the plant.

[22] This compound exhibits weak antibacterial properties against the bacterium Micrococcus luteus, Salmonella typhimurium and Proteus vulgaris.

[22] Acremostrictin has been shown to have concentration-dependent antioxidant activity, which conferred protection against oxidative stress induced cell death.

[22] AsES (A. strictum elicitor subtilisin; R4IR27) protein is an extracellular elicitor protein produced by A. strictum that provides complete systemic protection against anthracnose, cause by the fungal species Colletotrichum, in the natural host Fragaria ananassa as well as the non-natural host Arabidopsis thaliana.

Because it has been shown to provide the same systemic protection in non-natural hosts, this natural metabolite of A. strictum may be considered as a possible strategy for controlling anthracnose disease in plants.

The product is an oxide phase Mn(II) that would provide additional affinity for other toxic elements and thus prove as an effective method of water cleansing.