Fusarium head blight (FHB) resistance in wheat and triticale has a high priority the European Union because of strict guidelines for major mycotoxins deoxynivalenol (DON) zearalenone (ZON) admission policy regulatory authorities. Potentially 70% arable land Germany about 60% Austria can be affected by Fusarium. Although epidemics occur only some years and/or regions, DON ZON are detected every ...

Maize (Zea mays L.) is an important crop in sub-Sahara Africa for both human consumption and livestock feed. use often limited by ear-rotting fungi, some of which produce deleterious secondary metabolites. The aim this study was to determine the inheritance resistance Fusarium verticillioides as indirect way selecting metabolites such mycotoxin fumonisin that produced fungus, under artificial i...

Field trials were conducted from 2007 to 2010 to compare grain fumonisin levels among non-Bt maize hybrids and Bt hybrids with transgenic protection against manual infestations of European corn borer (ECB) and Western bean cutworm (WBC). HPLC and ELISA were used to measure fumonisin levels. Results of the methods were highly correlated, but ELISA estimates were higher. Bt hybrids experienced le...

Fusarium semitectum was found to be the major seed colonizing fungus in the commercial acid delinted cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) seed lots. There was no correlation, however, between its incidence and seedling emergence and disease symptoms on the emerged seedlings in autoclaved sand. Inoculation technique simulating internally seedborne nature of the fungus showed that the observed non-correla...

Root rot is an important and widespread disease that often causes significant reduction in the yield and quality of harvested peas throughout the production areas in New York. Pea root rot can be caused by one of several soilborne pathogens or various combinations of root pathogens and also non-pathogens. In recent years, Fusarium solani f. sp. pisi (causal pathogen of Fusarium root rot) has be...