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Mycotoxins continue to be a very serious threat to human health and a major concern for those entrusted with regulatingthesafetyoffoodandfoodproducts.Infectionofcerealsandothercrops,notablegrapevine,byFusarium, Aspergillus andPenicillium are a world-wide problem and recent epidemics in Europe, the USA and Canada have focused attention on this problem. A previous Special Issue of the European Journal of Plant Pathology (108 (7) 2003) was concerned with the nature of these toxins and the fungi that can produce them. The aim of this publication is to review the environmental factors that in?uence the success of these fungi as pathogens and as organisms affecting stored products, and to discuss how these factors can also in?uence the amounts of toxin that accumulate. These reviews were originally presented at a Workshop of the EU COST Action 835 entitled Agriculturally Important Toxigenic Fungi (Chairperson Antonio Logrieco, Bari, Italy), held in East Malling, UK at the Horticultural Research International in September 2002. We hope the information provided will stimulate scientists world-wide to assess the risk of toxins accumulating in plants under a range of environmental conditions and that this will provide an insight into how the accumulation of these toxins can be kept to a minimum. XiangmingXu JohnBailey MichaelCooke EuropeanJournalofPlantPathology109: 645 667, 2003. © 2003KluwerAcademicPublishers.
List of contents
Epidemiology of toxigenic fungi and their associated mycotoxins for some Mediterranean crops.- Modelling plant disease epidemics.- Effects of environmental conditions on the development of Fusarium ear blight.- Molecular tools to study epidemiology and toxicology of fusarium head blight of cereals.- Epidemiology of Fusarium diseases and their mycotoxins in maize ears.- Epidemiology of toxin-producing fungi and ochratoxin A occurrence in grape.- Post-harvest fungal ecology: Impact of fungal growth and mycotoxin accumulation in stored grain.- Strategies for the control of Fusarium head blight in cereals.- Major changes in Fusarium spp. in wheat in the Netherlands.- Influence of climatic factors on Fusarium species pathogenic to cereals.- Association of Fusarium species in the wheat stem rot complex.
Summary
Under the aegis of COST Action 835 `Agriculturally Important Toxigenic Fungi 1998-2003', EU Project (QLK 1-CT-1998-01380)
