Fusarium mycotoxins and human health

Fusarium Mycotoxins first

Despite intensive research, efforts to control Fusarium fungal infections and prevent or eliminate the presence of its mycotoxins in foods have not met with a great deal of success. Fusaria cause diseases, such as ear rot in corn and head blight and scab in wheat, that affect growth and yield of crops and were estimated to cause a loss of a billion dollars to wheat farmers in the USA in 1993. I...

Fumonisins, Mycotoxins Produced by Fusarium

Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites of fungi that are harmful to both animals and humans. Mycotoxicoses are diseases caused by the ingestion of foods or feeds made toxic by these fungal metabolites. Mycotoxins undoubtedly have presented a hazard to human and animal health for decades, and this threat only can become more important as the demand on the available food supply increases with the i...

Molecular biology of Fusarium mycotoxins.

As the 20th century ended, Fusarium mycotoxicology entered the age of genomics. With complete genomes of Fusarium graminearum and F. verticillioides and several Fusarium gene expression sequence databases on hand, researchers worldwide are working at a rapid pace to identify mycotoxin biosynthetic and regulatory genes. Seven classes of mycotoxin biosynthetic genes or gene clusters have been ide...

Mycotoxins in Human and Animal Health

Criteria for determining purity of Fusarium mycotoxins.

Physical and chemical properties that may be used to determine the purity of several Fusarium mycotoxins have been investigated. A combination of analytical procedures, which include high performance thin-layer chromatography (HPTLC), liquid chromatography (LC), gas chromatography (GC), gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS), ultraviolet spectrometry (UV), and nuclear magnetic resonance (...