Fusarium Mycotoxins, Taxonomy and Pathogenicity

• Other Authors: Stępień, Łukasz (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; Technology, engineering, agriculture; Fusarium head blight; Fusarium species; soil minerals; mycotoxins; organic farming; sowing value; winter wheat; Maize; Fusarium; monitoring; forage; silage; maize ear rot; nivalenol; fumonisins; flax; Fusarium oxysporum; pathogenic and non-pathogenic strains; sensitization; DNA methylation; PR genes; ear rot; maize; FUM1; pathogenicity; virulence; Fusarium graminearum; next-generation sequencing; proteomics; photobiology; transcription factor; White collar complex; Fusarium asiaticum; colonization; endophyte; Fo47; wilt disease; fusarium; LC-MS/MS; mycotoxin; occurrence; wheat; trichothecene; NF-κB; intestinal inflammation; combinatory effects; food safety; resistance expression; aggressiveness; F. graminearum; F. culmorum; isolate effect; disease index; Fusarium-damaged kernel; deoxynivalenol; susceptibility window; inoculation time and FHB response; keratomycosis; onychomycosis; horizontal cross-kingdom; disease index (DI); fusarium damaged kernels (FDK); deoxynivalenol (DON); host-pathogen relations; phenotyping FHB; Cereals; silo; fungi; modelling; 3D colonisation; respiration; ergosterol; zearalenone; trichothecenes.; n/a
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It has been over 200 years since Fusarium pathogens were described for the first time, and they are still in the spotlight of researchers worldwide, mostly due to the mycotoxigenic abilities and the subsequent introduction of harmful metabolites into the food chain. The accelerating climatic changes are resulting in pathogen population and chemotype shifts all around the world, thus increasing the demand for continuous studies of factors that affect the virulence, disease severity and mycotoxin accumulation in plant tissues. This Special Issue summarizes recent advances in the field of Fusarium genetics, biology and toxicology.