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Breeding healthy cereals: genetic improvement ofFusariumresistance and consequences for mycotoxins
- Source :
- World Mycotoxin Journal. 8:591-602
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2015.
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Abstract
- Although it is generally agreed that increased genetic resistance to fungal colonisation by Fusarium head blight (FHB) should lead to reduced damage and particularly to reduced contamination due to mycotoxins, this review aims to highlight on this relation based on published literature in comparison to our own results. We focus here on the major cereal crop plants wheat and barley. Generally, correlations between measures for disease severity on the plants or the seeds and toxin content were found positive and significant. Breeding of new cultivars with reduced Fusarium disease severity will therefore lead to a correlated selection response in the direction of reduced toxin contamination, for the prevalent toxins such as deoxynivalenol, but also for less abundant mycotoxins and masked mycotoxins. Choosing resistant cultivars is possibly the best option for mycotoxin reduction right at the beginning of the cereal production chain: on the farmer’s field. Therefore, investment in breeding FHB resistant cultivars will contribute to sustainable reduction of the mycotoxin problems in the cereal production chain, and increase food and feed safety.
- Subjects :
- Fusarium
Resistance (ecology)
Toxin
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
food and beverages
Biology
Contamination
Toxicology
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease_cause
Colonisation
Crop
chemistry.chemical_compound
chemistry
Agronomy
medicine
Cultivar
Mycotoxin
Food Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18750796 and 18750710
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- World Mycotoxin Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........8571ae9bb506b6503c6a80c1798d85e7