Fusarium : mycotoxins, taxonomy and pathogenicity

• Main Author: Stępień, Łukasz
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI 2020; MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
• Subjects: 3D colonisation; aggressiveness; Biology, life sciences; Cereals; colonization; combinatory effects; deoxynivalenol; deoxynivalenol (DON); disease index; disease index (DI); DNA methylation; ear rot; endophyte; ergosterol; F. culmorum; F. graminearum; flax; Fo47; food safety; forage; FUM1; fumonisins; fungi; Fusarium; Fusarium asiaticum; fusarium damaged kernels (FDK); Fusarium graminearum; Fusarium head blight; Fusarium oxysporum; Fusarium species; Fusarium-damaged kernel; horizontal cross-kingdom; host-pathogen relations; inoculation time and FHB response; intestinal inflammation; isolate effect; keratomycosis; LC-MS/MS; Maize; maize ear rot; Mathematics and Science; modelling; monitoring; mycotoxin; mycotoxins; n/a; next-generation sequencing; NF-κB; nivalenol; occurrence; onychomycosis; organic farming; pathogenic and non-pathogenic strains; pathogenicity; phenotyping FHB; photobiology; PR genes; proteomics; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; resistance expression; respiration; sensitization; silage; silo; soil minerals; sowing value; susceptibility window; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; transcription factor; trichothecene; trichothecenes; virulence; wheat; White collar complex; wilt disease; winter wheat; zearalenone
• ISBN: 9783039434084; 303943408X; 3039434098; 9783039434091
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03943-409-1

It has been over 200 years since Fusarium pathogens were described for the first time, and they are still in the spotlight of researchers worldwide, mostly due to the mycotoxigenic abilities and the subsequent introduction of harmful metabolites into the food chain. The accelerating climatic changes are resulting in pathogen population and chemotype shifts all around the world, thus increasing the demand for continuous studies of factors that affect the virulence, disease severity and mycotoxin accumulation in plant tissues. This Special Issue summarizes recent advances in the field of Fusarium genetics, biology and toxicology.