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Mycotoxins are known to affect the health and performance of farm animals. In contrast to cereal grains, the straw is only rarely analysed for mycotoxins, although contaminated straw could additionally expose farm animals to mycotoxins. For this reason, two experiments were carried out to examine the effect of pre-harvest Fusarium infection (inoculation with F. culmorum) and different storage conditions on the mycotoxin concentrations in straw. In the first experiment, both the inoculated and the identically cultivated control straw were stored in rectangular bales either in a barn or outdoors for a time period of 32 weeks (farm-scale experiment). The second experiment was aimed to examine the mycotoxin concentrations during storage under controlled conditions in a temperature-controlled climatic chamber, with target dry matter contents of 86%, 82% and 78% using 1.5-l preservation jars (laboratory-scale experiment). While the concentration of deoxynivalenol and its derivates decreased in the farm-scale experiment when inoculated straw was stored outdoors, the zearalenone concentration increased within the same time period. The latter effect was also detected for the control straw. These opposite effects were probably caused by the massive water uptake during the outdoor storage. The only effect we observed in the laboratory-scale experiment with dry matter contents between 78% and 86% was a more pronounced decrease of the 3-acetyl-deoxynivalenol concentrations in the inoculated straw with increasing moisture contents.
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This research project was funded by the German Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV) through the German Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food (BLE). The assistance of the co-workers of the involved institutes in performing the experiments and analyses is gratefully acknowledged.
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Rohweder, D., Valenta, H., Sondermann, S. et al. Effect of different storage conditions on the mycotoxin contamination of Fusarium culmorum-infected and non-infected wheat straw. Mycotox Res 27, 145–153 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12550-011-0087-6
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