Background Fusarium head blight is a very important disease of small grain cereals with F.
graminearum as one of the most important causal agents. It not only causes reduction in
yield and quality but from a human and animal healthcare point of view, it produces
mycotoxins such as deoxynivalenol (DON) which can accumulate to toxic levels. Little is
known about external triggers influencing DON production. Results In the present work, a
combined in vivo/in vitro approach was used to test the effect of sub lethal fungicide …

Fusarium head blight is a very important disease of small grain cereals with F. graminearum
as one of the most important causal agents. It not only causes reduction in yield and quality
but from a human and animal healthcare point of view, it produces mycotoxins such as
deoxynivalenol (DON) which can accumulate to toxic levels. Little is known about external
triggers influencing DON production. In the present work, a combined in vivo/in vitro
approach was used to test the effect of sub lethal fungicide treatments on DON production …