Special Issue "Fusarium Toxins: Occurrence and Risk Assessment"
A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651). This special issue belongs to the section "Mycotoxins".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.
Special Issue Editor
Interests: mycotoxins; control; analytical methods; preharvest; risk assessment
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Special Issue Information
Fusarium is one of the most economically important genera of phytopathogenic fungi. Several Fusarium species can infect cereals (such as wheat, maize, barley, oat, rice, rye, millet, and sorghum) as well as cereal products (bread, pasta, breakfast cereals, and infant cereals). The predominant species can vary according to crop species involved, geographic region and environmental conditions.
The most common Fusarium toxins are trichothecenes, zearalenone and fumonisins. However, other mycotoxins (enniatin, moniliformin, beauvericin and fusaproliferin) can be identified in combination with these mycotoxins.
Fusarium toxins are primarily produced in the field during pre-harvest and are an important indicator of diseases in cereal crops, such as Fusarium head blight (FHB).
Moreover, these mycotoxins are able to induce both acute and chronic toxicities in humans and animals, including emesis, diarrhea, anorexia, genotoxicity, cytotoxicity, and immune system suppression.
The aim of the present Special Issue is to collect the most recent research on this topic as well as review articles on the occurrence and risk assessment studies of Fusarium toxins. Submissions related to the following topics are welcome:
- Occurrence of Fusarium toxins in different food commodities;
- Fusarium toxins contamination before, during, and post-harvest and agronomic practices involved in its incidence;
- Analytical methods for an accurate determination of Fusarium toxins in different food and feed matrices;
- Toxicology of Fusarium toxins;
- Risk assessment studies based on dietary exposure to Fusarium toxins in different age groups.
Dr. Marta Herrera
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- deoxynivalenol
- mycotoxin
- occurrence
- toxicology
- risk assessment
- zearalenone
- fumonisins
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Two contrasting inoculation methods unveiled the relative independence of DON accumulation in wheat kernels from disease severity on spike after infection by Fusarium head blight
Authors: Rong Wang; Chen Hua; Yi Hu; Lei Li; Zhengxi Sun; Tao Li*
Affiliation: Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genomics and Molecular Breeding/ Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education/ Collaborative- Innovation of Modern Crops and Food Crops in Jiangsu/Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
Abstract: Fusarium head blight (FHB) causes wheat yield loss and mycotoxin (deoxynivalenol, DON) accumulation in wheat kernel. Developing wheat cultivars with overall resistance to both FHB spreading within a spike and DON accumulation in kernels is crucial for ensuring food security and food safety. Here, two relatively novel inoculation methods, bilateral floret inoculation (BFI) and basal rachis internode injection (BRII), were simultaneously employed to evaluate disease severity and DON content in kernels in a segregating population of recombinant inbred lines (RILs) developed from Ning 7840 (carrying Fhb1) and Clark (without Fhb1). Under both inoculation methods, four contrasting combinations of disease severity and DON content were identified: high severity/high DON (HSHD), high severity/low DON (HSLD), low severity/high DON (LSHD) and low severity/low DON (LSLD). Unexpectedly, BRII method clearly indicated that disease severity was not necessarily relevant to DON concentration. The effects of Fhb1 on disease severity, and on DON concentrations, agreed very well across the two methods. Several lines carrying Fhb1 showed extremely higher severity and (or) DON content under both inoculation methods. “Mahalanobis distance” (MD) method was used to rate overall resistance of a line by inclusion of both disease severity and DON content over both methods to select LSLD lines.
Title: /Fusarium/ mycotoxins in wheat in naturally infected and Fusarium inoculated treatments
Authors: Katarina Sunic; Valentina Spanic
Affiliation: Department for Breeding and Genetics of Small Cereal Crops, Poljoprivredni Institut Osijek, 31000 Osije, Croatia