Insects cause many other forms of damage when they feed on parts of the corn plant, including breakage of the plant, eardrop and kernel damage. Damaged kernels can lead to growth of fungi, which may produce biologically active compounds called mycotoxins (e.g. aflatoxin, fumonisin). Dependent upon their accumulation in kernels, mycotoxins pose a potential threat to human and animal health if co...

Fumonisin occurrence was reported in wheat grains and F. proliferatum has been suggested to be the main contributor its presence wheat. Thus, a survey performed order study impact of four commercial fungicides used Argentina for controlling Fusarium head blight disease (epoxiconazole + metconazole, tebuconazole, pyraclostrobin epoxiconazole, prothioconazole) on growth fumonisin production two s...

Fumonisins, a group of toxic metabolites produced by the genus Fusarium, are known to be consumed by farm animals and are the causative agent or a suspected contributing factor in farm animal diseases. Pigs are particularly susceptible to fumonisins. Reproductive inefficiency is recognized as the most costly limiting constraint to efficient animal production. To account for potential reproducti...

14C-Fumonisin B(1) (FB(1)) was produced by Fusarium proliferatum M-5991 in modified Myro liquid medium and purified to >95% purity with a specific activity of 1.7 mCi/mmol. Nine male and nine female F344/N rats were each dosed by gavage with 0.69 micromol of (14)C-FB(1), (14)C-hydrolyzed FB(1), or (14)C-FB(1)-fructose/kg body weight. Urinary excretion of (14)C-FB(1) and (14)C-FB(1)-fructose was...