Mycotoxins are secondary fungal metabolites, toxic to humans, animals and plants. Among
the hundreds of known mycotoxins, aflatoxins, citrinin, patulin, penicillic acid, tenuazonic …

The genus Fusarium includes numerous toxigenic species that are pathogenic to plants or
humans, and are able to colonize a wide range of environments on earth. The genus …

Disease outbreaks due to the consumption of contaminated food and feedstuff are a
recurring problem worldwide. The major factor contributing to contamination are …

Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites of microscopic fungi, which commonly contaminate
cereal grains. Contamination of small-grain cereals and maize with toxic metabolites of …

F usarium culmorum is a ubiquitous soil‐borne fungus able to cause foot and root rot and F
usarium head blight on different small‐grain cereals, in particular wheat and barley. It …

The contamination of foods and feed with mycotoxins is a commonly known problem.
Intense investigations have been conducted to study the occurrence, toxicity, and recently …

Fusarium species cause two distinct diseases on ears of maize, Fusarium ear rot (or pink ear
rot) and Gibberella ear rot (or red ear rot), both of which can result in mycotoxin …

▪ Abstract Infection of maize kernels by toxigenic fungi remains a challenging problem
despite decades of research progress. Cultural practices, including crop rotation, tillage …

Fungal secondary metabolites are of intense interest to humankind due to their
pharmaceutical (antibiotics) and/or toxic (mycotoxins) properties. In the past decade …

Fusarium graminearum is a major pathogen that causes fusarium head blight (FHB) in
wheat and produces deoxynivalenol (DON) in infected grain. In previous studies, the …