Szabolcs Lehoczki-Krsjak

1. IntroductionFusarium head blight (FHB) is an economically devastating disease of wheat and other small grains [1]-[4]. The quality and yield loss might be significant, but the losses caused by toxins are economically more important. As chemical protection, in spite of its progress [5]-[10], has only a moderate effect, the necessity of breeding more resistant wheat cultivars is inevitable. It is ...

1. IntroductionFusarium head blight (FHB), regarded as one of the most important diseases of wheat, is caused by a number of Fusarium species. F. graminearum Schw. [teleomorph: Gibberella zeae Schw. (Petch.)] predominates in most parts of the world [1] while F. culmorum Sacc. and other Fusarium spp. are of rather regional and local importance [2,3]. The toxin contamination produced by the pathogen ...