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Population structure of and mycotoxin production by Fusarium graminearum from maize in South Korea.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Apr 2012
Lee Jungkwan, Kim Hun, Jeon Jae-Jin, Kim Hye-Seon, Zeller Kurt A, Carter Laurel L A, Leslie John F, Lee Yin-Won
Abstract excerpt
Fusarium graminearum (Gibberella zeae) is an important pathogen of wheat, maize, barley, and rice in South Korea, and harvested grain often is contaminated with trichothecenes such as deoxynivalenol and nivalenol. In this study, we examined 568 isolates of F. graminearum collected from maize at eight locations in South Korea. We used amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs) to identify four lineages (2, 3,...
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