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Quantitative Assessment of Fusarium graminearum Infection in Resistant and Susceptible Barley Genotypes Beyond Visual Symptoms.
Phytopathology - 1 May 2026
Navasca Abbeah, Castleberry Cecelia, Benz Brooke R, Baldwin Thomas
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Fusarium head blight (FHB), primarily caused by Fusarium graminearum, damages cereal crops by inducing discoloration of spikes and producing deoxynivalenol (DON), which contaminates grains. A TaqMan multiplex real-time PCR previously demonstrated a strong correlation between DON and Fusarium biomass measured by Fusarium Tri5 over barley actin but a weaker association with severity. To investigate this observed...
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