The objectives of this preliminary study were to identifyFusariumspecies associated with wheat seed obtained from head blight infected fields and to determine whether the causal organism(s) of head blight could colonise plants systemically from infected seed. SixFusariumspp. were isolated from grain samples of the cultivar Palmiet.Fusarium graminearumcomprised 48.4% of the isolates,F. moniliforme36.3%,F. equiseti9.7%,F. chlamydosporum3.2%,F. subglutinans1.6%,and F. oxysporum0.8%. No systemic colonisation of roots, culms, leaves or heads of plants grown from infected seed was observed for any of these species.Fusarium equiseti, F. graminearum, andF. oxysporumwere, however, isolated from surface-sterilised crowns.Fusarium graminearumwas also isolated from 0.9% of seeds from which the embryos failed to emerge, and from 3.9% of blighted seedlings.