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JOURNAL OF THE BRAZILIAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 29, Issue 12, Pages 2626-2635Publisher
SOC BRASILEIRA QUIMICA
DOI: 10.21577/0103-5053.20180143
Keywords
chemical markers; Fusarium oxysporum; fungus; gas chromatography
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- CAPES
- CNPq
- Fundacao Araucaria
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Fusarium oxysporum is usually found in foods such as corn, wheat, soybeans and barley, and can cause economic losses and risks to health in humans and animals due to the production of mycotoxins. The conventional microbiological test for fungal identification is based on morphological characteristics, requires specialists, and it is very time-consuming as it is necessary to carry out a culture of the fungus for two weeks before microorganism identification. Nowadays, researchers have made efforts to develop alternative analytical methods with advantages such as shorter time of analysis and better accuracy and reproducibility when compared to microbiological methods. In this way, in the present work, a qualitative analytical method to detect the secondary metabolites of Fusarium oxysporum in culture media by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS) was developed with the intention of relating the presence of these chemical compounds to contamination by the fungus. The method comprised liquid-liquid or liquid-solid extractions with ethyl acetate from liquid and solid culture media, respectively, followed by GC-MS analysis, which was able to identify the presence of fusaric acid, 13-socosenamide, 5-(4-hydroxybutyl)-2-pyridinecarboxylic acid and toxin HT-2. The presence of these compounds was confirmed by high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry quadrupole time of flight (HPLC-MS/QTOF).
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