Fusarium commune was characterized as the causal pathogen of sugarcane root rot mainly based on its morphological characteristics, molecular identification using rDNA internal transcribed spacer (rDNA-ITS) and elongation factor 1-alpha (EF-1alpha), and its infection in fruit cane cultivar Badila (Wang et al. 2018; Li et al. 2022). The gene discussed is EEF1A1; the disease is infection.