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Metabolic profiling of wheat rachis node infection by Fusarium graminearum - decoding deoxynivalenol-dependent susceptibility.
The New phytologist - 1 Jan 2019
Bönnighausen Jakob, Schauer Nicolas, Schäfer Wilhelm, Bormann Jörg
Abstract excerpt
Fusarium graminearum is a filamentous ascomycete and the causal agent of Fusarium head blight on wheat that threatens food and feed production worldwide as infection reduces crop yield both quantitatively by interfering with kernel development and qualitatively by poisoning any remaining kernels with mycotoxins. In wheat, F. graminearum infects spikelets and colonizes the entire head by growing through the rachis...
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