Fungal species and multiple mycotoxin contamination of cultivated forage crops

Authors

  • Galina Kononenko All-Russian Research Institute for Veterinary Sanitation, Hygiene and Ecology
  • Alexey Burkin All-Russian Research Institute for Veterinary Sanitation, Hygiene and Ecology
  • Olga Gavrilova All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection (VIZR)
  • Tatiana Gagkaeva All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection (VIZR) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3276-561X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23986/afsci.52313

Keywords:

forages, grasses, legumes, mycotoxins, fungi

Abstract

The quality of grass samples used for animal feed by combining mycotoxin measures and mycological determination of mycobiota were explored. The samples of the plant material were collected in 2014 in two stages: before the first mowing (May–June) and before the second one (July–August) from the fields of stock-farms located in northwestern part of the Russia. All samples were divided into three types: grasses, mixture of different grasses and clover, alfalfa mixed with timothy. The occurrence of aflatoxin B1, alternariol, citrinin, cyclopiazonic acid, deoxynivalenol, diacetoxyscirpenol, emodin, ergot alkaloids, fumonisins, mycophenolic acid, ochratoxin A, PR-toxin, roridin A, sterigmatocystin, T-2 toxin, and zearalenone were determined using ELISA. The multiple fungal and mycotoxin contaminations are already formed in plant tissues by the moment of first mowing. The complexes of mycotoxins including up to 14–16 components and the combined character of plant contamination quite correspond to the taxonomic variety of mycobiota.

Downloads

Published

2015-12-31

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 4 (2015)

Section

Articles

License

Authors who publish with Agricultural and Food Science agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Any part of the Agricultural and Food Science may be referred to assuming the Author, The Article, Publication with Volume and Number plus URL for the references have been provided.

How to Cite

Fungal species and multiple mycotoxin contamination of cultivated forage crops. (2015). Agricultural and Food Science, 24(4), 323–330. https://doi.org/10.23986/afsci.52313
Received 2015-08-07
Accepted 2015-12-01
Published 2015-12-31