Assessment of Fusarium infection in wheat heads using a quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assay

Food Additives and Contaminants

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1121-1130

  Rossi, V ^a   Terzi, V ^b   Moggi, F ^a   Morcia, C ^b   Faccioli, P ^b   Haidukowski, M ^c   Pascale, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b CRA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES OF FOOD PRODUCTION   (Italy)

Author keywords

Deoxynivalenol; Fusarium culmorum; Fusarium graminearum; Fusarium head blight; Real time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR); Triticum

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; TRICHOTHECENE; VOMITOXIN;

ACCURACY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUSARIUM CULMORUM; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; FUSARIUM HEAD BLIGHT; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SEED KERNEL; SPECIES CULTIVATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WHEAT;

CEREALS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FUSARIUM; PLANT DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRICHOTHECENES; TRITICUM;

FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM CULMORUM; GIBBERELLA ZEAE; TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 34748829696     PISSN: 0265203X     EISSN: 14645122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02652030701551818     Document Type: Conference Paper

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