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Acclimatisation of Fusarium langsethiae, F. poae and F. sporotrichioides to elevated CO2: impact on fungal growth and mycotoxin production on oat-based media

Kahla, Amal; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol; Delpino-Deelias, Mariluz; Gutierrez-Pozo, Maria; Medina, Angel; Magan, Naresh; Doohan, Fiona (Elsevier, 2023-03-28)

Oats are highly susceptible to infection by Fusarium species, especially F. langsethiae, F. poae and F. sporotrichioides which contaminate the grain with mycotoxins. Climate change is expected to affect fungal colonisation ...
Actinobacteria: an underestimated source of potential microbial biocontrol agents against fusarium-related diseases in cultivated crops

Djemouai, Nadjette; Meklat, Atika; Yekkour, Amine; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol (Springer, 2023-07-28)

Crop infections with Fusarium spp. and associated mycotoxins have devastating economic implications and are a significant limitation to fifteen of the seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Therefore, it ...
Biocontrol activities of yeasts or lactic acid bacteria isolated from Robusta coffee against Aspergillus carbonarius growth and ochratoxin A production in vitro

López Rodrígue, Claudia; Strub, Caroline; Fontana, Angélique; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol; Durand, Noël; Beugré, Corinne; Guehi, Tagro; Medina, Angel; Schorr-Galindo, Sabine (Elsevier, 2024-03-01)

Biocontrol Agents (BCAs) can be an eco-friendly alternative to fungicides to reduce the contamination with mycotoxigenic fungi on coffee. In the present study, different strains of bacteria and yeasts were isolated from ...
Biological activities of Streptomyces sp. Bts40 isolated from the rhizosphere of Artemisia herba-alba Asso

Djemouai, Nadjette; Meklat, Atika; Gaceb-Terrak, Rabéa; Oulad Hadj Youcef, Khadidja; Nacer, Asma; Mokrane, Salim; Bouras, Noureddine; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol (Universitatea din Oradea, 2022-01-04)

Actinobacteria isolated from the rhizosphere of plants are of interest as they produce a diverse range of molecules, such as antibiotics and enzymes. This study investigates the antibacterial activity, plant growth-promoting ...
Biovalorisation of crude glycerol and xylose into xylitol by oleaginous yeast Yarrowia lipolytica

Prabhu, Vinayak Ashok; Thomas, Dominic J.; Ledesma-Amaro, Rodrigo; Leeke, Gary A.; Medina, Angel; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol; Coulon, Frederic; Agrawal, Deepti; Kumar, Vinod (BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2020-06-03)

Background Xylitol is a commercially important chemical with multiple applications in the food and pharmaceutical industries. According to the US Department of Energy, xylitol is one of the top twelve platform chemicals ...
Carbon dioxide production as an indicator of Aspergillus flavus colonisation and aflatoxins/cyclopiazonic acid contamination in shelled peanuts stored under different interacting abiotic factors

Garcia-Cela, Esther; Gari Sanchez, F. J.; Sulyok, Michael; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol; Medina, Angel; Kruska, Rudolf; Magan, Naresh (Elsevier, 2019-10-24)

Aspergillus flavus is the main xerophylic species colonising stored peanuts resulting in contamination with aflatoxins (AFs) and cyclopiazonic acid (CPA). This study evaluated the relationship between storage of shelled ...
Cladosporium species: the predominant species present on raspberries from the U.K. and Spain and their ability to cause skin and stigmata infections

Farwell, Lauren Helen; Deakin, Greg; Harris, Adrian Lee; Fagg, Georgina; Passey, Thomas; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol; Magan, Naresh; Xu, Xiangming (MDPI, 2023-01-17)

Raspberry (Rosales: Rosaceae) production in the U.K. has moved rapidly in the last 10 years to under polythene, combined with a reduced availability of broad-spectrum fungicides. Hence, the incidence of previously less ...
Dynamics of solute/matric stress interactions with climate change abiotic factors on growth, gene expression and ochratoxin aA production by Penicillium verrucosum on a wheat-based matrix

Abdelmohsen, Shaimaa; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol; Garcia-Cela, Esther; Medina, Angel; Magan, Naresh (Elsevier, 2020-10-16)

Penicillium verrucosum is responsible for ochratoxin A (OTA) contamination of temperate cereals during harvesting and storage. Inoculum comes from soil and crop debris. This study examined the effect of temperature (25 vs ...
Effect of post-harvest management practices on the mycobiome and ochratoxin A contamination of differently processed Robusta coffees from Ivory Coast

López Rodríguez, Claudia; Strub, Caroline; Chochois, Vincent; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol; Durand, Noël; Jourdan, Christophe; Fontana, Angélique; Guehi, Tagro; Medina, Angel; Schorr-Galindo, Sabine (Elsevier, 2023-09-15)

Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a secondary metabolite produced primarily by the genus Aspergillus sp. sections Circumdati and Nigri. It can accumulate in coffee at post-harvest stage. In the present study five different dry processed ...
Essential oils modulate gene expression and ochratoxin a production in Aspergillus carbonarius

El Khoury, Rachelle; Atoui, Ali; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol; Maroun, Richard; El Khoury, André; Mathieu, Florence (MDPI, 2016-08-19)

Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a mycotoxin, mainly produced on grapes by Aspergillus carbonarius, that causes massive health problems for humans. This study aims to reduce the occurrence of OTA by using the ten following essential ...
Exploration of actinobacteria communities in seawater and sediments of mediterranean basin from Algerian coast displays hight diversity with new taxa and antibacterial potential

Matmoura, Amina; Yekkour, Amine; Boufadi, Mokhtaria Yasmina; Bouras, Noureddine; Zitouni, Abdelghani; Mokrane, Salim; Meklat, Atika; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol (Springer, 2023-02-20)

The biodiversity of actinobacteria in the Mediterranean Sea habitat has drawn limited attention compared to that paid to terrestrial habitats. The work presented here focused on the biodiversity of culturable marine ...
Growth kinetic parameters and prediction of growth and zearalenone and deoxynivalenol production boundaries by three Fusarium asiaticum strains isolated from wheat

Garcia-Cela, Esther; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol; Ósk-Jónsdóttir, Inga; Lawson, Rita; Magan, Naresh (MDPI, 2022-10-25)

Fusarium species can cause head blight of cereals worldwide. This is accompanied by impacts on yield and contamination of grains with mycotoxins. Regulations, with maximum limits, exist for the relevant Fusarium mycotoxins ...
Harvest and post-harvest handling practices associated with Fumonisin B1 Contamination in maize (Zea mays L.): dietary exposure and risk characterization in Eastern Ethiopia

Mohammed, Abdi; Seid, Awol; Terefe, Habtamu; Cervini, Carla; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol (Springer, 2022-09-30)

Maize is the main staple food crop in the eastern part of Ethiopia. However, maize loss is a major issue due to fungal contamination especially at the post-harvest stage owing to inadequate handling practices. This study ...
Improvements within the peanut production chain to minimize aflatoxins contamination: an Ethiopian case study

Cervini, Carla; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol; He, Tingting; Mohammed, Abdi; Magan, Naresh; Medina, Angel (Elsevier, 2021-10-15)

Peanuts (Arachis hypogaea L.) are a worldwide crop appreciated by consumers and known to have several health benefits (e.g. decreasing risk of cardiovascular diseases, lowering LDL cholesterol). Nonetheless, during the ...
Incidence of mycobiota and aflatoxin B1 in Algerian feed

Bouti, Karima; Mimoune, Nouara Ait; Mokrane, Salim; Djemouai, Nadjette; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol; Mathieu, Florence; Riba, Amar (Inderscience, 2022-03-29)

The presence of fungi and aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) in 101 animal feed samples randomly collected from different vendors and factories in Algeria was investigated. For fungi, the main genera isolated were Aspergillus, Penicillium ...
Interacting climate change environmental factors effects on Fusarium langsethiae growth, expression of Tri genes and T-2/HT-2 mycotoxin production on oat-based media and in stored oats

Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol; Diez-Gutierrez, Lucia; Renaud, Justin; Sumarah, Mark; Medina, Angel; Magan, Naresh (Elsevier, 2019-05-11)

The objectives of this study were to investigate the impact that interactions between key climate change (CC) related environmental factors of temperature (20, 25, 30°C), water activity (aw; 0.995, 0.98) and CO2 exposure ...
Interacting climate change factors (CO2 and temperature cycles) effects on growth, secondary metabolite gene expression and phenotypic ochratoxin A production by Aspergillus carbonarius strains on a grape-based matrix

Cervini, Carla; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol; Ferrara, Massimo; García-Cela, Esther; Magistà, Donato; Medina, Angel; Gallo, Antonia; Magan, Naresh; Perrone, Giancarlo (Elsevier, 2019-11-12)

Little is known on the impact that climate change (CC) may have on Aspergillus carbonarius and Ochratoxin A (OTA) contamination of grapes, especially in the Mediterranean region where in CC scenarios temperature are expected ...
Interacting environmental stress factors affect metabolomics profiles in stored naturally contaminated maize

Garcia-Cela, Esther; Sulyok, Michael; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol; Medina, Angel; Krska, Rudolf; Magan, Naresh (MDPI, 2022-04-20)

There is interest in understanding the relationship between naturally contaminated commodities and the potential for the production of different useful and toxic secondary metabolites (SMs). This study examined the impact ...
Is it feasible to use mixed orchards to manage apple scab?

Stewart, Katie; Passey, Thomas; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol; Kevei, Zoltan; Xu, Xiangming (Maximum Academic Press, 2023-10-10)

Apple scab, caused by the fungus Venturia inaequalis, is one of the most damaging diseases of cultivated apples (Malus x domestica) worldwide. It results in huge losses as it diminishes fruit quality and impacts tree growth. ...
De novo genome assembly and functional annotation for Fusarium langsethiae

Zuo, Ya; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol; Molitor, Corentin; Medina, Angel; Magan, Naresh; Mohareb, Fady (Springer, 2022-02-22)

Background Fusarium langsethiae is a T-2 and HT-2 mycotoxins producing species firstly characterised in 2004. It is commonly isolated from oats in Northern Europe. T-2 and HT-2 mycotoxins exhibit immunological and ...

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