奶牛专用霉菌毒素吸附剂对泌乳奶牛生产性能的影响

奶牛饲料原料中霉菌毒素广泛存在,并严重威胁着奶牛健康,影响奶牛生产性能的发挥.选择年龄、胎次、产奶量、泌乳天数接近的荷斯坦奶牛90头,随机分成两组,考察奶牛专用霉菌毒素吸附剂对乳牛生产性能的影响.在饲喂等量的基础日粮上,对照组额外添加20 g/d·头精料补充料,试验组添加霉菌毒素吸附剂--普乐菲特20g/d头·其他饲养管理方式不变.该试验预饲期7 d,试验期77 d.结果表明,霉菌毒素吸附剂的添加不影响乳脂、乳蛋白,但对提高产奶量及降低原料奶中体细胞数(P<0.05)有明显效果.研究表明,日粮添加霉菌毒素吸附剂可有效提高原料奶质量,提高牧场整体经济效益.     

Interactions between Fusarium verticillioides and Fusarium graminearum in maize ears and consequences for fungal development and mycotoxin accumulation

Fungal interactions of Fusarium verticillioides and F. graminearum in maize ears and the impact on fungal development and toxin accumulation were investigated in a 2‐year field study at two locations in France. Maize ears were inoculated either with a spore mixture of F. graminearum and F. verticillioides or using a sequential inoculation procedure consisting of a first inoculation with F. graminearum followed by a second with F. verticillioides 1 week later. Toxin and fungal biomass were assessed on mature kernels, using HPLC and quantitative PCR. Correlation between the levels of DNA and toxin was high concerning F. graminearum DNA and deoxynivalenol (R² = 0·73) and moderate for F. verticillioides DNA and fumonisin (R² = 0·44). Fusarium graminearum DNA either decreased in mixed inoculations or was not influenced by subsequent inoculations with F. verticillioides, compared to single inoculations. In contrast, F. verticillioides DNA either significantly increased or was not affected in mixed and sequential inoculations. In two of the replicates, it can be assumed that natural contamination by F. verticillioides was favoured by previous contamination with F. graminearum. Overall, the results suggest that F. verticillioides has competitive advantages over the F. graminearum strains. Additionally, the data provide, for the first time, key evidence that previous contamination by F. graminearum in maize ears can facilitate subsequent infections by F. verticillioides.     

Mycotoxin Genetics and Gene Clusters

Fungi produce low molecular weight secondary metabolites such as antibiotics and mycotoxins. Antibiotics cure diseases whereas mycotoxins cause diseases in plants, animals and human beings. Species such as Aspergillus, Fusarium, Penicillium and Stachybotrys are known to produce mycotoxins that accumulate in processed foods and feeds, although the incidence of infection occurs before processing, during the active growth of the organism. Among the mycotoxins, aflatoxins produced by Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus have been extensively studied at the molecular level. A complex biosynthetic pathway involving sixteen steps is mediated by individual major genes. These fungi have eight linkage groups, but the aflatoxin/sterigmatocystin (AF/ST) metabolic pathway genes have been mapped to only three linkage groups; ten of them belong to linkage group VII, and one of each to linkage group II and VIII. These genes are involved in both the regulatory and biosynthetic pathways and are clustered on the respective chromosomes. Clustering of genes in fungi indicates an evolutionary trend among genes that orchestrate gene function. Being linked together they segregate as a unit, thereby conferring a selective advantage to the organism. The evolution of gene clusters takes place through vertical or horizontal gene transfer. In fungi, horizontal gene transfer is most effective. Functionally, the mechanism of evolution of mycotoxin gene clusters in fungi seems to be similar to the evolution of a super-gene. The possible implications of evolutionary parallelism of gene clusters and super-genes is briefly explored.     

Major Changes in Fusarium spp. in Wheat in the Netherlands

The re-emergence of fusarium head blight throughout the world and especially in Western Europe prompted a survey of the situation in the Netherlands. To allow for a high throughput screening of large numbers of samples, a diagnostic PCR method was developed to detect the most common species of Fusarium occurring on wheat. Seven primer pairs were tested for their ability to identify isolates of Fusarium avenaceum, F. culmorum, F. graminearum, F. poae, F. proliferatum and Microdochium nivale var. majus and M. nivale var. nivale. Each primer pair only generated a PCR product with the corresponding Fusarium species and all PCR fragments had different molecular sizes. This allowed the generation of these amplicons using a mixture of all seven primer pairs. The robustness of this multiplex PCR encouraged us to screen a large series of isolates collected in 2000 and 2001. In both years 40 fields were sampled leading to a collection of 209 isolates from 2000 and 145 isolates from 2001. The results of the multiplex PCR demonstrated that F. graminearum was the most abundant species in the Fusarium complex on wheat in both years. This is in sharp contrast to reports from the 1980s and early 1990s, which found F. culmorum as the predominant species. Primers derived from the tri7 and tri13 genes, which are implicated in the acetylation and oxygenation of the C-4 atom of the backbone of the trichothecene molecule, were used to discriminate between deoxynivalenol and nivalenol (NIV) producers. The populations of F. culmorum and F. graminearum both showed a slight increase in NIV-producers in 2001.     

镰刀菌毒素脱氧雪腐镰刀菌烯醇脱毒菌及脱毒酶研究进展

 脱氧雪腐镰刀菌烯醇(Deoxynivalenol,DON)是由镰刀菌在侵染小麦等禾谷类作物过程中产生的一种有毒次级代谢产物,是目前小麦及其制品中污染最为普遍的一种真菌毒素。DON能够对真核细胞产生多种毒性作用,严重危害人畜健康。DON又是一种毒力因子,促进镰刀菌扩展蔓延,加重赤霉病发病程度。利用脱毒菌、脱毒酶对DON毒素进行生物脱毒是最好的脱毒方式之一,其可将DON转化成低毒或无毒代谢产物,减少毒素对人畜健康的危害。脱毒基因还可作为新型抗源用于小麦赤霉病抗性改良,加速抗性品种的选育,从源头防止DON毒素的污染。本文概述了DON毒素生物脱毒的类型、代谢产物的毒性、脱毒基因的鉴定以及脱毒材料的应用等方面的研究进展,以期为DON毒素的生物防控和小麦赤霉病抗性改良提供参考。     

霉菌毒素降解剂的研究进展简

霉菌毒素的广泛存在对动物及人的健康产生严重的威胁,霉菌毒素降解剂可降解霉菌毒素,减少其对动物和人的危害,目前国内外对霉菌毒素降解进行了深入研究。作者主要对霉菌毒素的危害、霉菌毒素降解剂的分类及其在饲料中的应用进行综述,以期为霉菌毒素研究者提供较新的参考资料。     

霉菌毒素的研究进展

霉菌毒素是霉菌在生长繁殖过程中产生的有毒次级代谢产物,在饲料中广泛存在,主要包括黄曲霉毒素、赭曲霉毒素、烟曲霉毒素、玉米赤霉烯酮、单端孢霉菌素等。目前,关于单一霉菌毒素的毒性研究报道较多,而对多种霉菌毒素的联合毒性进行探索将是今后霉菌毒素研究的热点。     

Estimation of deoxynivalenol (DON) content by symptom rating and exoantigen content for resistance selection in wheat and triticale

Fusarium head blight (FHB) in wheat and triticale leads to contamination of the grain with the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON) that is harmful to animal and man. A fast, low-cost, and reliable method for quantification of the DON content in the grain is essential for selection. We analysed 113 wheat and 55 triticale genotypes for their symptom development on spikes, Fusarium exoantigen (ExAg) and DON content in the grain after artificial inoculation with a highly aggressive isolate of F. culmorum in three (wheat) and six (triticale) location-by-year combinations. Additionally, in triticale the amount of Fusarium damaged kernels (FDK) was assessed. ExAg content was analysed by a newly developed Fusarium-specific plate-trapped antigen enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (PTA-ELISA) and DON content by an immunoassay. A moderate disease severity resulted in an ExAg content of 0.87 optical density (OD) units in wheat and 1.02 OD in triticale. DON content ranged from 12.0 to 105.2 mg kg^–1 in wheat and from 24.2 to 74.0 mg kg^–1 in triticale. Genotypic and genotype-by-environment interaction variances were significant (P < 0.01). Coefficient of phenotypic correlation between DON content analysed by the immunoassay and ExAg content was r = 0.86 for wheat and r = 0.60 for triticale. The highest correlation between DON content and symptom rating was found by FHB rating in wheat (r = 0.77) and by FDK rating in triticale (r = 0.71). In conclusion, selection for reduced FHB symptoms should lead to a correlated selection response in low fungal biomass and low DON content in the grain.     

Relationship between European corn borer resistance and concentration of mycotoxins produced by Fusarium spp. in grains of transgenic Bt maize hybrids, their isogenic counterparts, and commercial varieties

The European corn borer (ECB), Ostrinia nubilalis Hb., is a major pest of maize in central Europe and promotes the infection of maize with Fusarium spp. In this study, transgenic Bt maize hybrids were compared with their isogenic counterparts, and with commercial hybrids from the recommended list with regard to their level of ECB resistance and their concentration of deoxynivalenol (DON), its 15‐acetyl (15‐A‐DON) and 3‐acetyl (3‐A‐DON) derivatives, nivalenol (NIV), fusarenon‐X (FUS‐X), fumonisins (FUM), and zearalenon (ZEN) in harvested grains. The field experiments were performed in Germany at four locations in 1999 and at five locations in 2000. Transgenic Bt hybrids showed significantly lower means than their corresponding isogenic counterparts and than commercial hybrids for all resistance traits: damage rating of stalks, number of larvae per plant, number of larvae per ear, and percentage of damaged plants or ears under infestation. Among all mycotoxins analysed, DON consistently showed the highest concentration across all year × location combinations. Mycotoxin concentrations varied significantly between locations, years and genotypes, whereas mycotoxin concentrations were not significantly different between infested and protected plots. Associations between ECB resistance traits and mycotoxin concentrations were not consistent across years. It is concluded that under central European conditions, the use of Bt maize hybrids will only slightly reduce the contamination of maize kernels with mycotoxins produced by Fusarium spp.