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Toxigenic Fusarium species infecting wheat heads in Poland

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Central European Journal of Biology

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Toxigenic Fusarium species are common pathogens of wheat and other cereals worldwide. In total, 449 wheat heads from six localities in Poland, heavily infected with Fusarium during 2009 season, were examined for Fusarium species identification. F. culmorum was the most common species (72.1% on average) with F. graminearum and F. avenaceum the next most commonly observed, but much less frequent (13.4 and 12.5% respectively). F. cerealis was found in 1.8% of all samples, and F. tricinctum was found only in one sample (0.2%). Subsequent quantification of the three major mycotoxins (deoxynivalenol, zearalenone and moniliformin) in grain and chaff fractions with respect to associated prevailing pathogen species uncovered the following patterns. Moniliformin (MON) was found in low amounts in all samples with F. avenaceum present. In contrast, deoxynivalenol (DON) and zearalenone (ZEA) were the contaminants of F. culmorum- and F. graminearum-infected heads. The highest concentration of DON was recorded in grain sample collected in Radzików (77 µg g−1). High temperatures in Central Poland during July and August accompanied with high rainfall in July were responsible for this high DON accumulation. Trichothecene, zearalenone, enniatin and beauvericin chemotypes were identified among 21 purified isolates using gene-specific PCR markers.

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  1. Department of Genomics, Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 60-479, Poznań, Poland

    Halina Wiśniewska & Jolanta Belter

  2. Department of Pathogen Genetics and Plant Resistance, Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 60-479, Poznań, Poland

    Łukasz Stępień

  3. Department of Chemistry, Poznań University of Life Sciences, 60-625, Poznań, Poland

    Agnieszka Waśkiewicz & Monika Beszterda

  4. Department of Plant Pathology, Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute NRI, 05-870, Błonie, Poland

    Tomasz Góral

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Wiśniewska, H., Stępień, Ł., Waśkiewicz, A. et al. Toxigenic Fusarium species infecting wheat heads in Poland. cent.eur.j.biol. 9, 163–172 (2014). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11535-013-0262-1

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