Fusarium spp. are ubiquitous fungi found in soil worldwide as both pathogenic and nonpathogenic strains. The signals leading to disease or the absence of disease are poorly understood. We recently showed that fusaric acid (FA), a nonspecific toxin produced by
The genus Fusarium is of concern to agricultural production and food/feed safety because of its ability to cause crop disease and to produce mycotoxins. Understanding the genetic basis for production of mycotoxins and other secondary metabolites (SMs) has the potential
The triggering of antibiotic production by various environmental stress molecules can be interpreted as bacteria's response to obtain increased fitness to putative danger, whereas the opposite situation - inhibition of antibiotic production - is more complicated to understand. Phenazines enable
Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 59(10), 5351-5356 (2011-04-19)
Fusarium oxysporum is a fungal pathogen that attacks many important plants. Uniquely pathogenic strains of F. oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum were inadvertently imported into the United States on live cottonseed for dairy cattle feed. These strains produce exceptionally high concentrations
Food additives & contaminants. Part A, Chemistry, analysis, control, exposure & risk assessment, 27(5), 718-728 (2010-03-31)
In a survey carried out on 87 rotted fig fruits samples collected in the Apulia region of Italy, the authors isolated 126 Fusarium strains identified as F. ramigenum (69 strains), F. solani (49), F. proliferatum (five) and three not identified.
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