Plant pathogen, Myrothecium

Bean, G. A., Fernando, T., Jarvia, B. B., and Bruton, B. 1984. The isolation and identification of trichothecene metabolites from plant pathogenic strains of Myrothecium roridum. J. Nat. Prod. 47, 727-729... 

In all these cases the responses observed in plants are, upon treatment with the trichothecenes, very similar to those seen in plants. Among those genera that have been claimed to produce trichothecenes are Acremonium (11), Cylindrocarpon (11), Dendrostilbella (12), Fusarium (11), Myrothecium (11), TrichoTerma (11), Trichothecium (11), and of these Cylindrocarpon, Fusarium, Myrothecium, and Trichothecium are plant pathogens ... 

The strongest evidence to support the association between the production of a trichothecene by a plant pathogen and the resulting death of the host is work carried out with Myrothecium roridum (31, 32, 33). This pathogen attacks musk-melon (Cucumis melo L.) and while it attacks mainly the fruit, with concomitant losses of up to 30%, all parts of the plant... 

Bean GA, Fernando T, Jarvis BB, Bruton B (1984) The Isolation and Identification of Trichothecene Mycotoxins from a Plant Pathogenic Strain of Myrothecium roridum. J Nat Prod 47 727... 

Trichothecenes constitute a mycotoxin family produced by fungal spiecies from several genera, notably Fusarium, Stachybotrys, Myrothecium, Trichothecium, Trichoderma, Cylindrocarpon, Verticimonosporium, Acremonium, and Phomopsis. Most of the trichothecenes that have been isolated and characterized chemically are from Fusarium species that grow in the field and are distributed worldwide, representing the important pathogens of grains and other food and feed plants. Trichothecenes ap>p)ear as natural contaminants in cereal grains such as wheat, barley, oat, maize, rice, and derived products, such as bread, malt and beer (Scott, 1989). 

A strain of Myrothecium roridum, (ATCC 52485), originally isolated from diseased muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.) is highly pathogenic and capable of attacking all parts of susceptible muskmelon plants including leaves, stems and fruits (Bruton, 1982). Bean et al. 

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