The cereals crops in Belgium are not safe from serious contaminations by mycotoxins. Theyears 1997 and 1998 for example were very favourable to the development of Fusariumhead blight. On that account, the project main objective consists in assessing the risk ofmycotoxins contamination and studying the environmental factors that contribute to increasethe rate of wheat contaminati...

Deoxynivalenol (DON) is a mycotoxin that commonly contaminates cereal-based foods worldwide. At the molecular level, DON disrupts normal cell function by inhibiting protein synthesis via binding to the ribosome and by activating critical cellular kinases involved in signal transduction related to proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. Relative to toxicity, there are marked species diffe...

Deoxynivalenol (DON), one of the trichothecene mycotoxins, is a worldwide contaminant of wheat and barley, especially when infected by Fusarium graminearum, the causative agent of an epidemic wheat disease called Fusarium Head Blight. Because of the high risk of DON ingestion and the possibility of frequent exposure, it is important to develop a rapid and highly sensitive method for easy identi...