Aspergillus flavus

S Amaike, NP Keller - Annual review of phytopathology, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Aspergillus flavus is saprophytic soil fungus that infects and contaminates preharvest and
postharvest seed crops with the carcinogenic secondary metabolite aflatoxin. The fungus is …

Structural and functional aspects of PR‐10 proteins

H Fernandes, K Michalska, M Sikorski… - The FEBS …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Physical, chemical and biological stress factors, such as microbial infection, upregulate the
transcription levels of a number of plant genes, coding for the so‐called pathogenesis …

Aspergillus flavus: the major producer of aflatoxin

MA Klich - Molecular plant pathology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Aspergillus flavus is an opportunistic pathogen of crops. It is important because it produces
aflatoxin as a secondary metabolite in the seeds of a number of crops both before and after …

The family 10 of plant pathogenesis-related proteins: their structure, regulation, and function in response to biotic and abiotic stresses

JJ Liu, AKM Ekramoddoullah - Physiological and molecular plant …, 2006 - Elsevier
The aim of this review is to present the current state of our understanding on the structure,
regulation, and function of plant pathogenesis-related protein family 10 (PR-10). This protein …

The Aspergilli and Their Mycotoxins: Metabolic Interactions With Plants and the Soil Biota

WP Pfliegler, I Pócsi, Z Győri, T Pusztahelyi - Frontiers in microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Species of the highly diverse fungal genus Aspergillus are well-known agricultural pests,
and, most importantly, producers of various mycotoxins threatening food safety worldwide …

Natural mechanisms for cereal resistance to the accumulation of Fusarium trichothecenes

AL Boutigny, F Richard-Forget, C Barreau - European journal of plant …, 2008 - Springer
This review describes the naturally occurring mechanisms in cereals that lead to a reduction
of Fusarium trichothecene mycotoxin accumulation in grains. A reduction in mycotoxin …

Mass spectrometry‐based metabolomics application to identify quantitative resistance‐related metabolites in barley against Fusarium head blight

V Bollina, GK Kumaraswamy… - Molecular plant …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Quantitative resistance is generally controlled by several genes. More than 100 resistance
quantitative trait loci (QTLs) have been identified in wheat and barley against Fusarium head …

Mycotoxins in ethanol co-products: modeling economic impacts on the livestock industry and management strategies

F Wu, GP Munkvold - Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2008 - ACS Publications
The rapidly expanding US ethanol industry is generating a growing supply of co-products,
mostly in the form of dried distillers' grain and solubles (DDGS) or wet distillers' grains …

Functional Biology and Molecular Mechanisms of Host-Pathogen Interactions for Aflatoxin Contamination in Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) and Maize (Zea mays …

P Soni, SS Gangurde, A Ortega-Beltran… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Aflatoxins are secondary metabolites produced by soilborne saprophytic fungus Aspergillus
flavus and closely related species that infect several agricultural commodities including …

Environmental influences on maize-Aspergillus flavus interactions and aflatoxin production

JC Fountain, BT Scully, X Ni, RC Kemerait… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Since the early 1960s, the fungal pathogen Aspergillus flavus (Link ex Fr.) has been the
focus of intensive research due to the production of carcinogenic and highly toxic secondary …