Fusarium Head Blight in Latin America

ALCONADA TERESA; CHULZE , S.N

Springer

Lugar: Dordrecht; Año: 2013 p. 300

978-94-007-7090-4

This book reviews the recent progress in the research on Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) in Latin America, and the information was recompiled from a South America perspective. The book has been organized in six different parts. Part I is devoted to the Fusarium populations associated to FHB and includes four chapters which provide description on Fusarium graminearum population structure and genotypes and chemotypes in relation to trichothecenes production. Also a chapter about the advances on the knowledge on the eco-physiology of Fusarium graminearum isolated from Latin America is included. Part II includes two chapters and outlines the mycotoxins produced by Fusarium species associated with FHB in South America and the methodology for their detection. Part III deals with the interaction plant pathogen aspects and includes two chapters. One of them describes the infection progress and the effect of the enzymes in the disease progression and the other chapter provides a general description of proteomic as a tool for studying the pathogen-host interaction. Part IV provides the advances in the knowledge on the epidemiology of Fusarium graminearum and how we can control the disease with the control of the inoculum through the management of the residues. Part V includes four chapters. The fi rst chapter describes the integrated disease management as a tool to control Fusarium Head Blight. The second chapter deals with the use of fungicides and their application to control FHB. The third chapter presents the advances on biological control as part of an integrated disease management to control both the disease and deoxynivalenol accumulation. This part also includes a chapter dealing with modeling and forecasting systems as a tool to reduce the impact of FHB and DON accumulation from a South American experience. Part VI summarizes the advances in South America on selection of cultivars less susceptible to Fusarium Head Blight and deoxynivalenol accumulation including field screening, marker assisted selection, and sources of resistance to FHB from alien species.