Characterization of Fusarium verticillioides strains isolated from maize in Italy: Fumonisin production, pathogenicity and genetic variability

Food Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-24

  Covarelli, Lorenzo ^a   Stifano, Simonetta ^a   Beccari, Giovanni ^a   Raggi, Lorenzo ^a   Lattanzio, Veronica Maria Teresa ^b   Albertini, Emidio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES OF FOOD PRODUCTION   (Italy)

Author keywords

AFLP; Fumonisins; Fusarium verticillioides; Maize; Pathogenicity

Indexed keywords

FUMONISIN; FUNGAL DNA;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLOUR; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD HANDLING; FUNGAL GENE; FUSARIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAIZE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DNA, FUNGAL; FLOUR; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FUMONISINS; FUSARIUM; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC VARIATION; ITALY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; ZEA MAYS;

GIBBERELLA; GIBBERELLA FUJIKUROI; GIBBERELLA MONILIFORMIS; MONILIFORMIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84859156633     PISSN: 07400020     EISSN: 10959998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fm.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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