Survey of some Fusarium moniliforme Strains from Different Host Plants for Compounds Possessing Gibberellin-Like Activity

Distribution of gibberellin biosynthetic genes and gibberellin production in the Gibberella fujikuroi species complex

“…Moreover, members of these mating populations can be found preferentially on different host plants (Leslie and Plattner, 1991;Zeller et al, 2003) and differ in their ability to produce secondary metabolites, such as fumonisins (Desjardins et al, 1995(Desjardins et al, , 2000Kedera et al, 1999;Leslie et al, 1992a,b;Proctor et al, 1999Proctor et al, , 2004, fusaric acid (Bacon et al, 1996), beauvericin (Logrieco et al, 1998;Torres et al, 2001;Reynoso et al, 2004), fusaproliferin (Reynoso et al, 2004), moniliformin Desjardins et al, 2000), fusarins (Wiebe and Bjeldanes, 1981;Song et al, 2004), and gibberellins (GAs) (El-Bahrawi, 1977;Tudzynski and Hö lter, 1998;Desjardins et al, 2000). In some cases, strains from more than one mating population can produce a particular secondary metabolite, while in other cases this ability seems to be species-specific.…”