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Open AccessChanges in Antioxidant Metabolism and Plant Growth of Wild Rocket Diplotaxis tenuifolia (L.) DC cv Dallas Leaves as Affected by Different Nutrient Supply Levels and Growing Systems
It has been widely assessed that the quality and quantity of nutrient supply and the growing system can strongly affect the growth and development of plants, the nutritional quality, and the levels of minerals...
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Open AccessGrafting alters tomato transcriptome and enhances tolerance to an airborne virus infection
Grafting of commercial tomato varieties and hybrids on the tomato ecotype Manduria resulted in high levels of tolerance to the infection of Sw5 resistance-breaking strains of tomato spotted wilt virus and of s...
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Open AccessA CRISPR-Cas9 System for Genome Editing of Fusarium proliferatum
Fusarium proliferatum causes diverse diseases of many economically important plants. The fungus produces several mycotoxins of which the fumonisins are the most toxic. Currently, deletion of key genes for mycotox...
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Effects of temperature and water activity on FUM2 and FUM21 gene expression and fumonisin B production in Fusarium verticillioides
The fungus Fusarium verticillioides is a pathogen of maize and can produce the mycotoxins fumonisins. The present work examined the effect of abiotic factors on the expression of two fumonisin biosynthetic genes ...
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Fumonisin B2 by Aspergillus niger in the grape–wine chain: an additional potential mycotoxicological risk
Fumonisins are mycotoxins with cancer-promoting activity and are associated with a number of animal and human diseases. The potential risk of contamination by fumonisin B2 (FB2), although at low levels, has been ...
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Characterization of dinucleotide and trinucleotide EST-derived microsatellites in the wheat genome
Over the past decade microsatellites or simple sequence repeats (SSRs) have attracted a considerable amount of attention from researchers. The aim of the present paper was to analyse expressed sequence tag-der...
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Cytotoxicity induced by nivalenol, deoxynivalenol, and fumonisin B1 in the SF-9 insect cell line
The toxicity of the mycotoxins nivalenol (NIV), deoxynivalenol (DON), and fumonisin B1 (FB1) was studied in the lepidopteran Spodoptera frugiperda (SF-9) cells, by the trypan blue dye-exclusion and 3-(4,5-dimethy...
