Fungal metabolite from Fusarium

The trichothecane group of sesquiterpenoids are now well recognized metabolites from such fungal sources as Trichothecium, Myrothecium, and Fusarium. To date the main interest in this group has centred around isolation, structural... 

Chlorinated ordnols have been identified from the bulbs of the edible lily (Lilium maximowiczii) infected with the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lilii. They were not, however, fungal metabolites these could also be induced by ultraviolet radiation of bulb scales, and the more highly chlorinated metabolites inhibited conidial germination of Bipolaris leersiae (Monde et al. 1998). 

The above steps in secondary metabolism have been known since the mid-1940 s. It has also been known for a long time that certain fungal secondary metabolites end up in crop residues (e.g. Fusarium mycotoxins) although it has been difficult to correlate data from stirred jar fermentors studies with that from crop studies e.g. corn ears. Recently, however. Hale and Eaton (19) demonstrated that the characteristic cavities of wood soft rot fungi (mostly molds) are explained by the fact that filamentous fungi do not grow in a continuous fashion in solid substrates. 

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