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Prevalence, Characterization and Mycotoxin Production Ability of Fusarium species on Korean Adlay (Coix lacrymal-jobi L.) Seeds

Version 1 : Received: 3 August 2016 / Approved: 4 August 2016 / Online: 4 August 2016 (10:12:54 CEST)

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An, T.J.; Shin, K.S.; Paul, N.C.; Kim, Y.G.; Cha, S.W.; Moon, Y.; Yu, S.H.; Oh, S.-K. Prevalence, Characterization, and Mycotoxin Production Ability of Fusarium Species on Korean Adlay (Coix lacrymal-jobi L.) Seeds. Toxins 2016, 8, 310. An, T.J.; Shin, K.S.; Paul, N.C.; Kim, Y.G.; Cha, S.W.; Moon, Y.; Yu, S.H.; Oh, S.-K. Prevalence, Characterization, and Mycotoxin Production Ability of Fusarium Species on Korean Adlay (Coix lacrymal-jobi L.) Seeds. Toxins 2016, 8, 310.

Abstract

Adlay seed samples were collected from 3 adlay growing regions (Yeoncheon, Jeonnam and Eumseong regions) in Korea during 2012. Among all the samples collected, 400 seeds were tested for fungal occurrence by standard blotter and test tube agar methods and different taxonomic groups of fungal genera were detected. The most predominant fungal genera encountered were Fusarium, Phoma, Alternaria, Cladosporium, Curvularia, Cochliobolus and Leptosphaerulina. The occurrence of Fusarium species were 45.6% and based on the combined sequences of two protein coding genes, EF-1a, Beta-tubulin and phylogenetic analysis, 10 species were characterized as F. incarnatum (11.67%), F. kyushense (10.33%), F. fujikuroi (8.67%), F. concentricum (6.00%), F. asiaticum (5.67%), F. graminearum (1.67%), F. miscanthi (0.67%), F. polyphialidiom (0.33%), F. armeniacum (0.33%) and F. thapsinum (0.33%). The ability of these isolates to produce mycotoxins fumonisin (FUM) and zeralenone (ZEN) were tested by ELISA quantitative analysis method. The result revealed that fumonisin (FUM) was produced only by F. fujikuroi and zeralenone (ZEN) by F. asiaticum & F. graminearum. Mycotoxigenic species were then examined for their morphological characteristics to confirm their identity. Morphological observations of the species correlated well with their molecular identification and confirmed as F. asiaticum, F. fujikuroi and F. graminearum.

Keywords

seeds; ELISA; Fusarium; morphological data analysis; mycotoxins; phylogenetic analysis S

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Immunology and Microbiology

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