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1 Citations
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6 June 2025

Fusarium head blight is one of the greatest threats to global wheat production. Despite the special attention paid by researchers to resistance genetics, the stability of resistance and the expression of its epidemiological relationships have not bee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,353 Views
20 Pages

Evaluation of Methods for Measuring Fusarium-Damaged Kernels of Wheat

  • Arlyn J. Ackerman,
  • Ryan Holmes,
  • Ezekiel Gaskins,
  • Kathleen E. Jordan,
  • Dawn S. Hicks,
  • Joshua Fitzgerald,
  • Carl A. Griffey,
  • Richard Esten Mason,
  • Stephen A. Harrison and
  • Richard E. Boyles
  • + 2 authors

21 February 2022

Fusarium head blight (FHB) is one of the most economically destructive diseases of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), causing substantial yield and quality loss worldwide. Fusarium graminearum is the predominant causal pathogen of FHB in the U.S., and pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,014 Views
18 Pages

Flowering is the most favorable host stage for Fusarium infection in wheat, which is called the susceptibility window (SW). It is not known how long it takes, how it changes in different resistance classes, nor how stable is the plant reaction in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,061 Views
30 Pages

25 July 2020

In previous research, conidium concentrations varying between 10,000 and 1,000,000/mL have not been related to any aggressiveness test. Therefore, two Fusarium graminearum and two Fusarium culmorum isolates were tested in the field on seven genotypes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,138 Views
29 Pages

Assessment of Fusarium-Damaged Kernels in Common Wheat in Romania in the Years 2015 and 2016 with Extreme Weather Events

  • Valeria Gagiu,
  • Elena Mateescu,
  • Nastasia Belc,
  • Oana-Alexandra Oprea and
  • Gina-Pușa Pîrvu

4 May 2022

This article assesses the occurrence of Fusarium-damaged kernels (FDKs) in common wheat (Triticum aestivum) under the influence of environmental factors and extreme weather events in Romania (exceptionally high air temperatures and extreme pedologica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,172 Views
23 Pages

Microbiological and Mycotoxicological Quality of Stored Wheat, Wholemeal Flour and Bread: The Impact of Extreme Weather Events in Romania in the 2024 Summer

  • Valeria Gagiu,
  • Elena Mirela Cucu (Chirtu),
  • Elena Iulia Lazar (Banuta),
  • Cristian Mihai Pomohaci,
  • Alina Alexandra Dobre,
  • Gina Pusa Pirvu,
  • Oana Alexandra Oprea,
  • Cristian Lazar,
  • Elena Mateescu and
  • Nastasia Belc

11 October 2025

This study examines the effects of the extreme drought and heatwaves that occurred in Romania during the summer of 2024 on the microbiological and mycotoxicological quality of wheat (Triticum aestivum) stored until April 2025, as well as on the quali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,650 Views
20 Pages

Microbiological and Mycotoxicological Quality of Common Wheat in Romania in the Extremely Dry 2023–2024 Agricultural Year

  • Valeria Gagiu,
  • Elena Mirela Cucu,
  • Alina Alexandra Dobre,
  • Gina Pusa Pirvu,
  • Oana Alexandra Oprea,
  • Cristian Mihai Pomohaci,
  • Elena Mateescu,
  • Nastasia Belc and
  • Doru Ioan Marin

22 March 2025

This study examines the microbiological and mycotoxicological quality of common wheat in Romania in the extremely dry 2023–2024 agricultural year. Common wheat grown in the West Plain, Southern Hilly Area, Transylvania, and northern Moldavia (4...

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  • Open Access
319 Views
35 Pages

2 March 2026

Fusarium head blight (FHB) is one of the most significant diseases in wheat globally, affecting about 200 million tons of grain per year through mycotoxin contamination. Besides yield losses, mycotoxin contamination is a major concern. FHB resistance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,090 Views
19 Pages

25 August 2021

Fusarium head blight (FHB) can contaminate cereal grains with mycotoxins. Winter wheat can also become infected with FHB and is more resistant than durum wheat to head infection but less than other small-grain cereals. The aim of this study was to id...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,810 Views
17 Pages

Mass Selection for Reduced Deoxynivalenol Concentration Using an Optical Sorter in SRW Wheat

  • W. Jesse Carmack,
  • Anthony J. Clark,
  • Yanhong Dong and
  • David A. Van Sanford

28 November 2019

Fusarium head blight (FHB) of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) results in discolored Fusarium damaged kernels (FDK) contaminated with deoxynivalenol (DON). DON accumulation, a primary measure of FHB resistance, can be used as a basis for selection, but t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,284 Views
33 Pages

8 January 2024

The term “Fusarium Head Blight” (FHB) resistance supposedly covers common resistances to different Fusarium spp. without any generally accepted evidence. For food safety, all should be considered with their toxins, except for deoxynivalen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,266 Views
19 Pages

23 December 2020

Fusarium head blight (FHB) can cause contamination of cereal grain with mycotoxins. Triticale is also infected with FHB; however, it is more resistant than wheat to head infection. The aim of this study was to identify triticale lines that combine lo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
66 Citations
6,641 Views
33 Pages

3 December 2020

Fusarium head blight has posed continuous risks to wheat production worldwide due to its effects on yield, and the fungus provides additional risks with production of toxins. Plant resistance is thought to be the most powerful method. The host plant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,036 Views
20 Pages

Global temperature increases will affect Fusarium head blight (FHB) levels in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). A pressing question is whether current sources of resistance will be effective in a warmer environment. We evaluated phenotypic response to di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,890 Views
29 Pages

In resistance tests to Fusarium head blight (FHB), the mixing of inocula before inoculation is normal, but no information about the background of mixing was given. Therefore, four experiments (2013–2015) were made with four independent isolates...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,591 Views
16 Pages

Relationship between Fusarium Head Blight, Kernel Damage, Concentration of Fusarium Biomass, and Fusarium Toxins in Grain of Winter Wheat Inoculated with Fusarium culmorum

  • Tomasz Góral,
  • Halina Wiśniewska,
  • Piotr Ochodzki,
  • Linda Kærgaard Nielsen,
  • Dorota Walentyn-Góral and
  • Łukasz Stępień

21 December 2018

Winter wheat lines were evaluated for their reaction to Fusarium head blight (FHB) after inoculation with Fusarium culmorum in two field experiments. A mixture of two F. culmorum chemotypes was applied (3ADON—deoxynivalenol producing, NIV&mdash...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
9,484 Views
18 Pages

Assessment of Fusarium Infection and Mycotoxin Contamination of Wheat Kernels and Flour Using Hyperspectral Imaging

  • Elias Alisaac,
  • Jan Behmann,
  • Anna Rathgeb,
  • Petr Karlovsky,
  • Heinz-Wilhelm Dehne and
  • Anne-Katrin Mahlein

21 September 2019

Fusarium head blight (FHB) epidemics in wheat and contamination with Fusarium mycotoxins has become an increasing problem over the last decades. This prompted the need for non-invasive and non-destructive techniques to screen cereal grains for Fusari...

  • Article
  • Open Access
417 Views
15 Pages

Effects of Black Point on Wheat Seed Mass and Seedling Growth

  • Lesia Golosna,
  • Jana Chrpova,
  • Jana Palicova,
  • Milos Faltus and
  • Olena Bobrova

23 January 2026

Black point (BP) and Fusarium-damaged kernels are common disorders affecting wheat grains worldwide. While the negative impact of Fusarium head blight (FHB) on yield and grain quality is well established, the biological significance of BP remains deb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,833 Views
18 Pages

15 April 2021

Monitoring changes in the prevalence of Fusarium species and toxin production is an important tool for the integrated control of Fusarium head blight (FHB). However, methods for the high-throughput screening of Fusarium populations have been develope...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,610 Views
14 Pages

Effectiveness of Species- and Trichothecene-Specific Primers in Monitoring Fusarium graminearum Species Complex in Small Grain–Pea Intercropping Systems

  • Vesna Župunski,
  • Radivoje Jevtić,
  • Milosav Grčak,
  • Mirjana Lalošević,
  • Branka Orbović,
  • Dalibor Živanov and
  • Desimir Knežević

Tracking the distribution of Fusarium species and the detection of changes in toxin production provides epidemiological information that is essential for Fusarium head blight (FHB) management. Members of Fusarium graminearum species complex (FGSC) we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,250 Views
10 Pages

Fusarium head blight (FHB) is one of the most significant causes of economic loss in cereal crops, resulting in a loss of $50–300 million for Canadian agriculture. The infected grain (containing Fusarium-damaged kernels (FDKs)) is often both lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,648 Views
14 Pages

Evaluation of Inoculation Methods for Determination of Winter Wheat Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight

  • Hrvoje Šarčević,
  • Miroslav Bukan,
  • Ana Lovrić and
  • Marko Maričević

20 April 2023

One of the most severe winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) diseases is Fusarium head blight (FHB). It is believed that selection for resistance to FHB is better in high disease pressure environments, for which various methods of artificial inoculatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,143 Views
11 Pages

Wheat Fusarium Protease Specificity and Effect on Dough Properties

  • Ray Bacala,
  • Bin Xiao Fu,
  • Katherine Cordova and
  • Dave W. Hatcher

7 July 2021

Fusarium infection is a worldwide agricultural problem of billion dollar proportions globally, and it has increasingly threatened entire regional food supplies. In addition to the toxin deoxynivalenol (DON), Fusarium species express digestive enzymes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,616 Views
15 Pages

Influence of Wheat Cultivars, Infection Level, and Climate after Anthesis on Efficacy of Fungicide for Control of Fusarium Head Blight in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain of China

  • Fei Xu,
  • Hongqi Wang,
  • Chaohong Feng,
  • Ruijie Shi,
  • Jihong Liu,
  • Junmei Wang,
  • Hua Fan,
  • Lei Bai,
  • Xiaoqing Li and
  • Yilin Zhou
  • + 7 authors

1 October 2024

Fusarium head blight (FHB), caused by the Fusarium graminearum species complex, causes significant losses in grain yield and quality of wheat (Triticum aestivum) by inducing floret sterility. Grains become contaminated with mycotoxins, especially deo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,881 Views
13 Pages

18 October 2016

Resistance to Fusarium head blight in 32 winter triticale and 34 winter wheat accessions was evaluated. Triticale and wheat were sown in field experiments in two locations. At the time of flowering, heads were inoculated with three Fusarium culmorum...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,030 Views
13 Pages

Machine Learning Analysis of Hyperspectral Images of Damaged Wheat Kernels

  • Kshitiz Dhakal,
  • Upasana Sivaramakrishnan,
  • Xuemei Zhang,
  • Kassaye Belay,
  • Joseph Oakes,
  • Xing Wei and
  • Song Li

28 March 2023

Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a disease of small grains caused by the fungus Fusarium graminearum. In this study, we explored the use of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) to evaluate the damage caused by FHB in wheat kernels. We evaluated the use of HSI fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,807 Views
14 Pages

Control of Fusarium verticillioides (Sacc.) Nirenberg and Fumonisins by Using a Combination of Crop Protection Products and Fertilization

  • Richard Raphael Madege,
  • Kris Audenaert,
  • Martin Kimanya,
  • Bendantukuka Tiisekwa,
  • Bruno De Meulenaer,
  • Boris Bekaert,
  • Sofie Landschoot and
  • Geert Haesaert

2 February 2018

Fusarium verticillioides is the most common fungal pathogen associated with maize ear rot in Tanzania. In a two-year trial, we investigated the efficacy of crop protection (insecticide and/or fungicide) and fertilizer (nitrogen and/or phosphorus) tre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,689 Views
11 Pages

Relationships of Helicoverpa armigera, Ostrinia nubilalis and Fusarium verticillioides on MON 810 Maize

  • Béla Darvas,
  • Hajnalka Bánáti,
  • Eszter Takács,
  • Éva Lauber,
  • Árpád Szécsi and
  • András Székács

20 January 2011

MON 810 maize was developed against Ostrinia nubilalis and is suggested to indirectly decrease Fusarium spp. infestation in maize ears. To evaluate this effect, co-occurrence of insect and fungal pests on MON 810 maize was studied. During 2009, excep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,707 Views
15 Pages

Occurrence of Deoxynivalenol and Deoxynivalenol-3-glucoside in Hard Red Spring Wheat Grown in the USA

  • Senay Simsek,
  • Maribel Ovando-Martínez,
  • Bahri Ozsisli,
  • Kristin Whitney and
  • Jae-Bom Ohm

18 December 2013

Deoxynivalenol (DON) is a mycotoxin found in wheat that is infected with Fusarium fungus. DON may also be converted to a type of “masked mycotoxin”, named deoxynivalenol-3-glucoside (D3G), as a result of detoxification of the plant. In this study, DO...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,852 Views
10 Pages

The Ear Unwrapper: A Maize Ear Image Acquisition Pipeline for Disease Severity Phenotyping

  • Owen Hudson,
  • Dylan Hudson,
  • Colin Brahmstedt and
  • Jeremy Brawner

Fusarium ear rot (FER) is a common disease in maize caused by the pathogen Fusarium verticillioides. Because of the quantitative nature of the disease, scoring disease severity is difficult and nuanced, relying on various ways to quantify the damage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,134 Views
16 Pages

Evaluation of Maize Hybrids for Resistance to Ear Rot Caused by Dominant Fusarium Species in Northeast China

  • Zhoujie Ma,
  • Jianjun Wang,
  • Shenghui Wen,
  • Jiankai Ren,
  • Hongyan Hui,
  • Yufei Huang,
  • Junwei Yang,
  • Bianping Zhao,
  • Bo Liu and
  • Zenggui Gao

19 April 2024

Ear rot caused by the Fusarium species has led to a decline in maize yield and kernel quality worldwide. The changes in the population structure of pathogens and the widespread planting of susceptible maize varieties have exacerbated the occurrence a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,177 Views
18 Pages

Identification of QTLs for Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight Using a Doubled Haploid Population Derived from Southeastern United States Soft Red Winter Wheat Varieties AGS 2060 and AGS 2035

  • Alejandro Castro Aviles,
  • Stephen Alan Harrison,
  • Kelly Joseph Arceneaux,
  • Gina Brown-Guidera,
  • Richard Esten Mason and
  • Niranjan Baisakh

25 June 2020

Fusarium head blight (FHB), caused primarily by the fungus Fusarium graminearum, is one of the most damaging diseases of wheat, causing significant loss of yield and quality worldwide. Warm and wet conditions during flowering, a lack of resistant whe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,160 Views
17 Pages

11 May 2019

Fusarium head blight (FHB), caused principally by the species belonging to the Fusarium graminearum species complex (FGSC), is an important disease in wheat, barley, and other small grain crops worldwide. Grain infected with species in the FGSC may b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,046 Views
16 Pages

3 April 2024

Breeding resistant wheat cultivars to Fusarium head blight (FHB), caused by Fusarium spp., is the best method for controlling the disease. The aim of this study was to estimate general combining ability (GCA) and specific combining ability (SCA) for...

  • Review
  • Open Access
66 Citations
11,924 Views
16 Pages

Fungal Pathogens of Maize Gaining Free Passage Along the Silk Road

  • Michelle E. H. Thompson and
  • Manish N. Raizada

11 October 2018

Silks are the long threads at the tips of maize ears onto which pollen land and sperm nuclei travel long distances to fertilize egg cells, giving rise to embryos and seeds; however fungal pathogens also use this route to invade developing grain, caus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,077 Views
15 Pages

21 June 2022

The fungal ear rot of maize cultivated in temperate areas is mainly due to the Fusarium species. The use of insecticides against European Corn Borer (ECB) reduces the severity of fungal ear rot as well as the fumonisin (FB) and moniliformin (MON) lev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
100 Citations
10,756 Views
31 Pages

Role of Fungicides, Application of Nozzle Types, and the Resistance Level of Wheat Varieties in the Control of Fusarium Head Blight and Deoxynivalenol

  • Ákos Mesterházy,
  • Beáta Tóth,
  • Monika Varga,
  • Tibor Bartók,
  • Ágnes Szabó-Hevér,
  • László Farády and
  • Szabolcs Lehoczki-Krsjak

16 November 2011

Fungicide application is a key factor in the control of mycotoxin contamination in the harvested wheat grain. However, the practical results are often disappointing. In 2000–2004, 2006–2008 and 2007 and 2008, three experiments were made to test the e...