Management of Risks for Wheat Contamination with Fusarium graminearum

Abstract

The topic is particularly important because toxins cause mycotoxins in plants and animals and remain in food products obtained from infected organisms and they are mutagenic, teratogenic and estrogenic effects in animal and human bodies. Also, may be a serious threat to human health. This study presents the mineral nutrition status of winter wheat in connection with the risks of wheat contamination by Fusarium toxins in the soil conditions at INCDA Fundulea. The plants selected for testing were ten wheat cultivars, identified as susceptible to infection with Fusarium graminearum. The soil from the experiment was Cambic Chernozem. Two types of parcels were included in the experiment: one with healthy plants and another with artificially infected plants. In order to quantify the mineral nutrition status of plant with macro and micronutrients, the plant analyses were being carried out in the ear emergence-flowering phase. The obtained results it was interpreted in connection with the optimum limits of mineral contents in dry matter, mentioned in the specialty literature. The N and K ratios between healthy plant and artificially infected plants it was processed based on analytical data.