Fusarium poae and Fusarium sporotrichioides in cereal grains of the Slovak Republic.
The occurrence of Fusarium poae and F. sporotrichioides was examined in 37,172 cereal grains of 229 samples from the Slovak Republic. In an area where strains of Fusarium parasitized. 40% of grains on average, owing to unfavourable weather, 5 strains of F. poae were isolated (0.5% out of 1,015 strains of Fusarium). In an area where the situation was less unfavourable, Fusarium spp. contaminated on average 4.1% of grains, F. poae were present in 6.1% out of 82 strains of Fusarium. When cereal ripened and harvested under climatically favourable conditions. Fusarium spp. were isolated, on average, out of 3.0% of grains, but the strains of F. poae made an essential part of the mycoflora (25.5% out of 985 isolated Fusarium strains). In three samples there were ascertained 5%, 15% and 19.5% of grains contaminated by strains of F. poae, F. sporotrichioides was isolated only 5 times.
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Institute of Clinical and Preventive Medicine, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
D002980:Climate; D003604:Czechoslovakia; D002523:Edible Grain / Q000382:microbiology*; D005516:Food Microbiology; D005670:Fusarium / Q000302:isolation & purification*