Fusarium verticillioides Fumonisins

F. verticillioides, fumonisin producing isolates F. verticillioides fumonisin producing isolates Fusarium spp. potential fumonisin producers... 

Gonzalez-Jaen, M. T., Mirete, S., Patino, B., Lopez-Errasquin, E., and Covadonga, V. (2004). Genetic markers for the analysis of variability and for production of specific diagnostic sequences in fumonisin-producing strains of Fusarium verticillioides. Eur.. Plant Pathol. 110, 525-532. 

Lopez-Errasquin, E., Vazquez, C., Jimenez, M., and Gonzalez-Jaen, M. T. (2007). Real-Time RT-PCR assay to quantify the expression oifuml and fuml9 genes from the fumonisin-producing Fusarium verticillioides. ]. Microbiol. Methods 68,312-317. 

Veluti, A., Sanchis, V., Ramos, A.J. and Marin, S. (2004) Effect of essential oils of cinnamon, clove, lemongrass, oregano and palmarosa on growth and fumonisin B1 production by Fusarium verticillioides in maize. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 84(10), 1141-1146. 

Marin, S., Sanchiz, V., Sanz, D., et al. 1999. Control of growth and fumonisin B1 production by Fusarium verticillioides and Fusarium proliferatum isolates in moist maize with propinic preservatives. Food Additives and Contamination 16 555-563. 

Fungi produce a number of inhibitors of CerS. The most studied are the fumonisins, which are produced by Fusarium verticillioides, a common contaminant of com. Fumonisins were first discovered in a search for the causal factor(s) for human esophageal cancer in the Transkei region of South Africa and two diseases encountered in agricultural animals that eat contaminated food (W.F.O. Marasas, 2001). They were subsequently found to have many pathological effects liver and kidney toxicity, renal cancer, immunosuppression (and in some cases immunostimulation), and birth defects, with the latter being seen not only in studies with experimental models (W.F.O. Marasas,... 

Dalie, D., Pinson-Gadais, L., Atanasova-Penichon, V., Marchegay, G., Barreau, C., Deschamps, A., et al. (2012). Impact of Pediococcus pentosaceus strain L006 and its metabolites on fumonisin biosynthesis by Fusarium verticillioides. Food Control, 23, 405-411. 

Fumonisin Bj (FBj) Fusarium verticillioides, Fusarium proliferatum, Fusarium nygamai Com, com meal, grits... 

Proctor RH, Plattner RD, Desjardins AE, Busman M, Butchko RA(2006) Fumonisin production in the maize pathogen Fusarium verticillioides genetic basis of naturally occurring chemical variation. J Agric Food Chem 54 2424-2430... 

Bojja RS, Cemy RL, Proctor RH, Du L (2004) Determining the biosynthetic sequence in the early steps of the fumonisin pathway by use of three gene-disruption mutants of Fusarium verticillioides. J Agric Food Chem 52 2855-2860... 

Many published applications for food analysis are feasibility studies done toward the application of on-line analysis. For example, NIR was applied to the detection of fumonisin in single corn kernels infected with Fusarium verticillioides. However, the classification results for the corn kernels were generally better for oriented kernels... 

Fusarium moniliforme sya verticillioides causes the so-called ear rot disease in maize and produces fumonisin B, (IB,), one of the most frequently detected mycotoxins in the food supply chain worldwide (Steyn, 1995). FBi can inhibit lipid formation, particularly in the liver. Fumonisins have been detected and investigated only relatively recently. Several structurally related forms of fumonisins (FBS) have been associated with human cancer (e.g. FB with oesophageal cancer) as well as with a host of problems in livestock fed with FB -contaminated feed (D Mello, 2003 Benbrook, 2005). 

The effect of L. rhamnosus on growth and production of mycotoxins by Fusarium species, such as F. proliferatum, F. verticillioides, and F. graminearum, was studied by Stiles and Bullerman (2002). Fumonisin Bj production was up to 63.2% inhibited in F. proliferatum, fumonisin B2 production by F. verticillioides was reduced up to 43.4%, and production of deoxynivalenol and zearalenone by F. graminearum was affected up to 92% and 87.5%, respectively. 

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