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The food-acceptable strain A-3/5 ofFusarium graminearum contains a genetic element which can elicit expression of the genes for mycotoxin production in the “lazy” non-producing variant of a zearalenone-producing strain. The failure of A-3/5 itself to produce this toxin is therefore plausibly explained by lack of the pathway genes rather than by failure to express them.
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Bu'Lock, J.D., Wright, C.E. & Mooney, J.E. Use of a protoplast fusion test to establish the status of mycotohin genes in an edibleFusarium . Biotechnol Lett 8, 621–624 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01025967
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