Phytotoxicity of pathogenic fungi and their mycotoxins to cereal seedling viability |
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Authors: | Hasan Hassan Ahmed Hassan |
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Institution: | (1) Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt |
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Abstract: | Aspergillus flavus, Alternaria alternata and Fusarium oxysporum were the pathogenic fungi most reduced cereal (barley, sorghum and wheat) seedlings. The pathogens have the ability to produce
aflatoxin B1 and G1, diacetoxyscirpenol, kojic acid and tenuazonic acid that reduced seedling viability. The inhibition dose for 50% reduction
(LD50) was recorded by aflatoxins at 0.83 mg L-1 for barley, 1.74 mg L-1 for wheat and 2.75 mg L-1 for sorghum. Diacetoxyscirpenol produced its inhibition at 1.26 mg L-1 for barley, 3.98 mg L-1 for wheat and 10 mg L-1 for sorghum. Kojic acid induced 50% inhibition at 63 mg L-1 for barley, 105 mg L-1 for wheat and 251 mg L-1 for sorghum. However, tenuazonic acid was less toxic where the toxicity ranged between 79–550 mg L-1. The germination inhibition was more pronounced in barley followed by wheat and was negligible in sorghum for all tested
mycotoxins. This inhibition was attributed to the reduction in the seedling amylase activity, where amylase was also reduced
in the same trend: barley > wheat > sorghum. Grain treated with carboxin-captan and thiophanatemethyl-thiram at 1 g kg-1 grain increased the seedlings vigour of wheat in sterilized soil by 45 and 22%, barley by 24 and 33% and sorghum by 15 and
30%, respectively. These fungicides also had a positive effect on cereal when the soil was inoculated with A. flavus, A. alternata and F. oxysporum, but the improvement was still below normal.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | amylase cereal seedlings fungicides mycotoxins pathogenic fungi |
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