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Pre-harvest accumulation of deoxynivalenol in sweet corn ears inoculated with Fusarium graminearum.
Food additives and contaminants - 1 Aug 2000
Reid L M, Zhu X, Savard M E, Sinha R C, Vigier B
Abstract excerpt
Three types of commercial sweet corn hybrids [surgary (su1), shrunken or 'supersweet' (sh2) and surgary enhancer (se1)] were silk channel inoculated in 1996 and 1997 with a macroconidial suspension of Fusarium graminearum to determine how early the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol accumulates in kernels. Disease symptoms rapidly developed on all hybrids and were apparent 4 days after inoculation. Symptoms stabilized by...
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